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Bodega Worker Sues DA Alvin Bragg, NYPD For ‘Racial Discrimination’

By Brooke Mallory

A former Bodega employee who stabbed an assailant in his store last year out of “self-defense” is suing Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin and the New York City Police Department for racial discrimination.

According to the Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit filed on Friday, former clerk, Jose Alba, who is accused of fatally stabbing ex-convict Austin Simon during a brawl at the Blue Moon Bodega in Harlem in July 2022, claims he was charged with second-degree murder and spent days in prison on Rikers Island due to Bragg’s efforts to promote “racial equity” in the Manhattan criminal justice system.

“While in theory, Bragg’s ‘racial equity’ policies are a well-intentioned attempt by him to implement even-handed justice, the means and methods employed by Bragg have instead had an opposite effect and resulted in discrimination against certain defendants based on race,” the suit said. It also names NYPD Detective William Garcia with other arresting officers and detectives.

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