INSANITY Fury at woke Manhattan DA for prosecuting bodega employee, 51, who stabbed career criminal to death in self defense - as GoFundme pulls/#68 update

[hunybee]

Fury over prosecution bodega employee who stabbed thug in self-defense

Jose Alba, 62, is in Rikers Island this morning awaiting his first court appearance on charges of murder. His bail has been set at $250,000 and his case is due to go before a grand jury.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Fury at woke Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for prosecuting hardworking bodega employee, 51, who stabbed career criminal to death in self defense - as GoFundMe REMOVES the man's $20k legal fund

• Jose Alba is sitting in Rikers Island awaiting his next court date on murder charges
• Last Friday, he killed Austin Simon, a 34-year-old ex-con who attacked him
• Simon's girlfriend couldn't afford a bag of potato chips in Alba's Harlem bodega
• When he tried to reclaim the chips, she pulled a knife out of her purse then called for her boyfriend's back-up
• Simon then confronted Alba in the store and Alba stabbed him in self-defense
• Simon died in the hospital and Alba was charged with murder
• His family started a GoFundMe for his defense but it was removed last night after raising $20,000
• Now, there is a growing campaign to #FreeJoseAlba amid fury at Alvin Bragg
• Bragg's office routinely awards no or low cash bail to violent offenders in NYC
• The case is due to be presented to a grand jury on Thursday

There is mounting anger over woke Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's decision to charge a 51-year-old bodega employee with murder for killing a career criminal in self-defense after the thug attacked him in his store.

Jose Alba, 51, is in Rikers Island this morning awaiting his first court appearance on charges of murder.

His bail has been set at $250,000 - an exorbitant amount compared with the low-or-no cash bail that is routinely given to repeat offenders by Bragg's soft-touch office.

On Friday night, Alba stabbed Austin Simon to death after Simon attacked him in the Bluemoon Convenient Store in Harlem.

Alba, who is beloved in the local community, has worked there for decades and has no criminal record.

His family launched a GoFundMe page to help pay his legal expenses - but the page was removed on Wednesday night after raising $20,000. GoFundMe is yet to explain the decision.

On Thursday, DA Bragg's officer is expected to present the case to a grand jury. He asked the judge to set Alba's bail at $500,000 - which the judge deemed too high.

This was the altercation that led to Jose Alba's arrest last Friday. Alba, 51, is shown in a blue striped shirt and hat. Austin Simon, right, arrived in the store to confront Alba who had refused to give his girlfriend a bag of potato chips

There is growing anger over the prosecution of bodega worker Alba by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and his office
The row began in the store on Friday night when Simon's girlfriend, who has not been named, tried to buy a bag of potato chips for her daughter.

Her debit card was declined as she tried to make the purchase and Alba insisted that she hand the chips back over.

According to police, the woman then produced her own knife from her handbag. There was a scuffle and she ran out of the store to call on Simon for help.

Simon was on parole for attacking a police officer at the time of the incident on Friday night.

State records show he spent time in both Elmira and Five Points, two New York corrections facilities.

DA Alvin Bragg's office has not commented on the decision to charge Alba.

There is growing outrage over the decision among the community in Harlem where Alba lives, and online among strangers.

Simon's girlfriend, who allegedly produced a knife and stabbed him in the arm, has not been charged.

The man's family set up a GoFundMe to help him pay for his legal defense but it was removed overnight after raising $20,000

The page no longer exists on GoFundMe. The fundraising site has not yet explained why
Yesterday, a store worker who did not want to be named told DailyMail.com: ''The girlfriend is still out there enjoying her life'.

Regulars at the shop described Alba as a hard-working father who was preparing for retirement, and was looking forward to returning to the Dominican Republic next week to visit his family.

He worked at the store every day of the week from noon to 6am, they told DailyMail.com, to 'make an honest living.'

But during his more than two years working at the store, several patrons have tried to take advantage of him, grabbing items and trying to walk away with them.

One man even once held up a gun to him, they said.

So when Simon entered the store and starting threatening him last week, he did not know whether he had a gun and could kill him.

'He never wanted no problem,' said Ahmad's son, who was working the counter on Wednesday.

'I picture him as my grandfather being in that situation.'

The Bluemoon Convenience Store in Harlem, where the incident occurred on Friday

Police working at the scene last Friday. Alba stabbed the man multiple times in the neck and chest using a knife that the store workers use to open boxes

Scattered potato chips remained on the ground of the store after the scuffle that ended in Simon dying

Alba was working in the small store when Simon charged in and demanded that he apologize to his girlfriend for not giving her a bag of chips after her card was declined
Residents also told DailyMail.com that Simon was a known gang member, and would often talk about being in a gang.

Records obtained by DailyMail.com show he has been incarcerated several times - most recently in 2020, on assault and attempted assault charges.

He was then released from prison in May 2021.

'We want justice, we want no problems,' store employees said.

One regular at the bodega claiming if Alba isn't freed: 'We have no law here in this city.'

Danny Alba wrote on the fundraising page: 'It is with great sadness that I must ask for help for the great injustice that is taking place in my hometown of Harlem, with my own father nevertheless.
'It hurts me knowing that a man cannot defend himself without being made to look like a villain.'

She described her father as 'a loving man that always puts his family first whilst also looking after kids and people in bad positions in life that have no other form of guidance.'

She added: 'It is truly disgusting how they are trying to keep my dad in jail for protecting himself from a person who physically and verbally assaulted him before he took any action to protect his own life.

'If there is any justice left in the judicial system please let it work here, in the place where I was born and raised, Harlem.'

GoFundMe did not immediately respond to inquiries about why the page was taken down.

 

[20Gauge]

Everyone misses the point of the charges.

They are not criminalizing self defense per se.

They are sending a message that we don't care about the chaos our policies make, but if you make any move to counter them or show any moxie ( call it self worth / spirit towards individuality ) we are going to destroy you.

They have their own security. Their security does not have the restrictions by law you do. They have police that will protect them unlike you.

So the people of NY either accept that the woke is the law of the land or die.

That is the message of this article.

 

[Illini Warrior]

there's parts of the ethnic clan that doesn't qualify for that immediate PD/DA Woke pass - this Hispanic worker is one - how dare he work hard and expect to get away with protecting himself ....

very good chance if it was black on black this wouldn't be a story >>> there's not a whole lot that NYC will prosecute when it involves blacks ....

 

[iboya]

Progressives punishing the victim, no surprise.

 

[mikeabn]

Everyone misses the point of the charges.

They are not criminalizing self defense per se.

They are sending a message that we don't care about the chaos our policies make, but if you make any move to counter them or show any moxie ( call it self worth / spirit towards individuality ) we are going to destroy you.

They have their own security. Their security does not have the restrictions by law you do. They have police that will protect them unlike you.

So the people of NY either accept that the woke is the law of the land or die.

That is the message of this article.

Exactly.

 

[Dobbin]

One regular at the bodega claiming if Alba isn't freed: 'We have no law here in this city.'

Cogent observation.

Dobbin

 

[Griz3752]

What a two-faced double standard of justice/bail policies. Too bad there's no way to cut NYC loose & let it float away into the North Atlantic

 

[barbarossa58]

Only when cowardly DAs that pick and choose what will be prosecuted are hung with the entrails of the last of the worthless career politicians, will we begin to see justice...

 

[Blue 5]

Surely in the whole of NYC a supply of tar and feathers could be found sufficient to express to the DA the people's dissatisfaction with this miscarriage of justice?

It's an oldie but a goodie.

 

[Griz3752]

Surely in the whole of NYC a supply of tar and feathers could be found sufficient to express to the DA the people's dissatisfaction with this miscarriage of justice?

It's an oldie but a goodie.

Start a Go Fund Me under some double entendre and it'll be over subscribed in a heart beat.

I know where to get tar in Manhattan. ......

 

[barbarossa58]

Start a Go Fund Me under some double entendre and it'll be over subscribed in a heart beat.

I know where to get tar in Manhattan. ......

As in ANTIFA, need pallets of bricks on street corners...

 

[hunybee]

He is held with a huge bail, but all the other violent crimes are just let go.

And still the bitch that pulled a knife on him because he wouldn't allow her to steal from him walks around free.

I am not one that gives 2 craps what a person looks like it where they are from if they are decent person and works hard and follows the laws (the usual, reasonable laws. Not the insanity we have now), and is just a regular old school American that does their thing and sees no problem with me doing mine.

Dude was, by all accounts, just this kinda person. Honest, hard working, helpful and a solid member of society.

Piss in that DA and piss on GoFundMe!

I hope and pray some attorney that is just fed up with the corruption there takes it on and waves the fees BFYTW and rips through the place like a caged bull with a bullseye on the little eff'er that's been using the cattle prod for fun.

And I hope they set up a private fund that people can donate to that cannot be touched or taken away by anyone except that guy and his family.

Just pissed me right the **** off this morning!

 

[Publius]

New York State for many years would prosecute anyone who killed someone that broke into a home with a weapon and the criminal somehow managed to make it outside the home before dying, yep thats right they called it murder if you even shot them dead two feet inside the doorway and they fell over backwards over the threshold outside home they called it murder. This has more to do with poorly educated people on juries and not knowing they should give a acquittal regardless what the prosecutor and judge told them.

 

[packyderms_wife]

Alba has been Rittenhouse'd! Welcome to the new world where criminals are celebrated and the innocent are condemned.

 

[dstraito]

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg - invalid by means of corruption

An immoral criminal in charge of justice

 

[WildDaisy]

Are we sure the GoFundMe was pulled because of politics, or was it pulled because it was a scam and the money wasnt going to go to Jose, but to whomever jumped on his sympathy train to profit?

 

[night driver]

I assure you that NY Citizens have had the "cut off 'The City' and let it drift into the Atlantic" fantasy for LOTS LONGER than TB has been in existence.

I was wishing and hoping for this for 30 years before I discovered TB.

 

[undead]

Everyone misses the point of the charges.

They are not criminalizing self defense per se.

They are sending a message that we don't care about the chaos our policies make, but if you make any move to counter them or show any moxie ( call it self worth / spirit towards individuality ) we are going to destroy you.

They have their own security. Their security does not have the restrictions by law you do. They have police that will protect them unlike you.

So the people of NY either accept that the woke is the law of the land or die.

That is the message of this article.

no

they ARE criminalizing self-defense

 

[Deena in GA]

Just saw that Alba’s bail was reduced to $50,000 and he has been released. He’s due back in court on the 30th.

His son has started another fund on GiveSendGo. Here’s the link: https://www.givesendgo.com/HelpJose...tm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=HelpJoseAlba

 

[Dennis Olson]

He dared to defend himself against a nigra. You don’t get to harm the “new master race” when they want your stuff.

 

[bloodztone]

Definitely in the times of where good will be called evil and evil will be called good. Not sure why anyone uses the communist Go Fund Me platform either. They, GFM, need to be cancelled...

 

[meandk0610]

Why does anybody even bother with GoFundMe anymore? Hasn’t everyone already learned that they will steal your money and call it good when they don’t agree with the recipient?

 

[hunybee]

Are we sure the GoFundMe was pulled because of politics, or was it pulled because it was a scam and the money wasnt going to go to Jose, but to whomever jumped on his sympathy train to profit?

it was set up by his family.

 

[ghost]

Fury over prosecution bodega employee who stabbed thug in self-defense

Jose Alba, 62, is in Rikers Island this morning awaiting his first court appearance on charges of murder. His bail has been set at $250,000 and his case is due to go before a grand jury.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Fury at woke Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for prosecuting hardworking bodega employee, 51, who stabbed career criminal to death in self defense - as GoFundMe REMOVES the man's $20k legal fund

• Jose Alba is sitting in Rikers Island awaiting his next court date on murder charges
• Last Friday, he killed Austin Simon, a 34-year-old ex-con who attacked him
• Simon's girlfriend couldn't afford a bag of potato chips in Alba's Harlem bodega
• When he tried to reclaim the chips, she pulled a knife out of her purse then called for her boyfriend's back-up
• Simon then confronted Alba in the store and Alba stabbed him in self-defense
• Simon died in the hospital and Alba was charged with murder
• His family started a GoFundMe for his defense but it was removed last night after raising $20,000
• Now, there is a growing campaign to #FreeJoseAlba amid fury at Alvin Bragg
• Bragg's office routinely awards no or low cash bail to violent offenders in NYC
• The case is due to be presented to a grand jury on Thursday

There is mounting anger over woke Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's decision to charge a 51-year-old bodega employee with murder for killing a career criminal in self-defense after the thug attacked him in his store.

Jose Alba, 51, is in Rikers Island this morning awaiting his first court appearance on charges of murder.

His bail has been set at $250,000 - an exorbitant amount compared with the low-or-no cash bail that is routinely given to repeat offenders by Bragg's soft-touch office.

On Friday night, Alba stabbed Austin Simon to death after Simon attacked him in the Bluemoon Convenient Store in Harlem.

Alba, who is beloved in the local community, has worked there for decades and has no criminal record.

His family launched a GoFundMe page to help pay his legal expenses - but the page was removed on Wednesday night after raising $20,000. GoFundMe is yet to explain the decision.

On Thursday, DA Bragg's officer is expected to present the case to a grand jury. He asked the judge to set Alba's bail at $500,000 - which the judge deemed too high.

This was the altercation that led to Jose Alba's arrest last Friday. Alba, 51, is shown in a blue striped shirt and hat. Austin Simon, right, arrived in the store to confront Alba who had refused to give his girlfriend a bag of potato chips

There is growing anger over the prosecution of bodega worker Alba by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and his office
The row began in the store on Friday night when Simon's girlfriend, who has not been named, tried to buy a bag of potato chips for her daughter.

Her debit card was declined as she tried to make the purchase and Alba insisted that she hand the chips back over.

According to police, the woman then produced her own knife from her handbag. There was a scuffle and she ran out of the store to call on Simon for help.

Simon was on parole for attacking a police officer at the time of the incident on Friday night.

State records show he spent time in both Elmira and Five Points, two New York corrections facilities.

DA Alvin Bragg's office has not commented on the decision to charge Alba.

There is growing outrage over the decision among the community in Harlem where Alba lives, and online among strangers.

Simon's girlfriend, who allegedly produced a knife and stabbed him in the arm, has not been charged.

The man's family set up a GoFundMe to help him pay for his legal defense but it was removed overnight after raising $20,000

The page no longer exists on GoFundMe. The fundraising site has not yet explained why
Yesterday, a store worker who did not want to be named told DailyMail.com: ''The girlfriend is still out there enjoying her life'.

Regulars at the shop described Alba as a hard-working father who was preparing for retirement, and was looking forward to returning to the Dominican Republic next week to visit his family.

He worked at the store every day of the week from noon to 6am, they told DailyMail.com, to 'make an honest living.'

But during his more than two years working at the store, several patrons have tried to take advantage of him, grabbing items and trying to walk away with them.

One man even once held up a gun to him, they said.

So when Simon entered the store and starting threatening him last week, he did not know whether he had a gun and could kill him.

'He never wanted no problem,' said Ahmad's son, who was working the counter on Wednesday.

'I picture him as my grandfather being in that situation.'

The Bluemoon Convenience Store in Harlem, where the incident occurred on Friday

Police working at the scene last Friday. Alba stabbed the man multiple times in the neck and chest using a knife that the store workers use to open boxes

Scattered potato chips remained on the ground of the store after the scuffle that ended in Simon dying

Alba was working in the small store when Simon charged in and demanded that he apologize to his girlfriend for not giving her a bag of chips after her card was declined
Residents also told DailyMail.com that Simon was a known gang member, and would often talk about being in a gang.

Records obtained by DailyMail.com show he has been incarcerated several times - most recently in 2020, on assault and attempted assault charges.

He was then released from prison in May 2021.

'We want justice, we want no problems,' store employees said.

One regular at the bodega claiming if Alba isn't freed: 'We have no law here in this city.'

Danny Alba wrote on the fundraising page: 'It is with great sadness that I must ask for help for the great injustice that is taking place in my hometown of Harlem, with my own father nevertheless.
'It hurts me knowing that a man cannot defend himself without being made to look like a villain.'

She described her father as 'a loving man that always puts his family first whilst also looking after kids and people in bad positions in life that have no other form of guidance.'

She added: 'It is truly disgusting how they are trying to keep my dad in jail for protecting himself from a person who physically and verbally assaulted him before he took any action to protect his own life.

'If there is any justice left in the judicial system please let it work here, in the place where I was born and raised, Harlem.'

GoFundMe did not immediately respond to inquiries about why the page was taken down.

Stop this B.S., he was defending himself period.
I would do the same thing.
I would also, be my own lawyer ?
Also, I would tell the Judge to his face, to go to hel*.

 

[mistaken1]

Why do people continue to waste money on gofundme accounts?
We need free state DAs to investigate and shutdown gofundme.

 

[mikeabn]

And Kickstart too while they are at it.

 

[Thunderdragon]

update. They lowered bail to 50,000 and he was released. It appears the deceased person’s girlfriend attacked alba and stabbed him three times but she has not been charged. His wounds were not treated while in jail. This will probably get dropped…don’t see the d a pushing it to trial. but who knows.

 

[Thunderdragon]

irony. deceased girlfriends EBT card was declined. So....we all were not able to buy her chips as she had already spent what we had given her....in theory.

 

[Dobbin]

This will probably get dropped…don’t see the d a pushing it to trial. but who knows.

Quietly fade away...

Bad optic mojo.

DA might end up like San Fran. San Francisco votes overwhelmingly to recall progressive DA Chesa Boudin

Dobbin

 

[winston]

New York State for many years would prosecute anyone who killed someone that broke into a home with a weapon and the criminal somehow managed to make it outside the home before dying, yep thats right they called it murder if you even shot them dead two feet inside the doorway and they fell over backwards over the threshold outside home they called it murder. This has more to do with poorly educated people on juries and not knowing they should give a acquittal regardless what the prosecutor and judge told them.

a Deputy told my uncle to make sure the dead perp was inside his house before the law got there - must be something to this

 

[Dozdoats]

Kulaks are supposed to be killed by bolsheviks, not the other way around.

 

[Henry Bowman]

Just remember folks, Officer friendly followed orders and arrested this man for defending himeself.

They went against the oath they swore and followed orders.

They are NOT your friend , not one of them.

This is no longer the days of looking to the Police as friend , hero and protector.

They are now the new Centurions , the new storm troopers , gladly doing what TPTB tell them to do.

Sad as those who served and protected years ago will probably be lumped in with this same shit show we call "Law" enforcement.

They are now your enemy and you should always remember that.

 

[Dozdoats]

must be something to this

It's called tampering with evidence ...

 

[Thunderdragon]

I saw the climate change people in Maryland blocking the highway. One guy in a car in front freaked out - as he had to be a a job or something and if not - he violated his parole and he was going back to jail. May have been posted on here. Anyway - the police were standing there - and ended up arresting HIM and NOT the protestors blocking traffic. it is illegal to block the road like they were doing.... So...it seems depending on what jurisdiction you are in - I would agree - they are not there to protect you. They were onsite to protect the climate protestors illegally blocking the road. Maybe if they tried to block an intersection in a rural town in a deep red state the outcome would be different - but I would say in areas where most of the population of the US actually lives - they will side with the people blocking the road illegally. sadly.

 

[223shootersc]

Bragg is a lowlife piece of garbage and needs to be tat and feathered and rode out of town on a rail

 

[ainitfunny]

God advocates defending your property and life!
Matthew 24
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

 

[mbabulldog]

a Deputy told my uncle to make sure the dead perp was inside his house before the law got there - must be something to this

New York has what is called "duty to retreat" if at all possible before lethal force is justified. You literally must be backed into a corner/closet/bathroom before you can pull the trigger. And Heaven help you if you passed a window, stairwell, or other means of egress and didn't take advantage of it.

 

[Old Gray Mare]

Update: He's been bailed out but the Commie Democrat DA hasn't dropped the charges so he's not even close to free yet. Wondering if the DA wasn't expecting the backlash and is now desperately trying to figure out how to save face?

Fair use.
NYC bodega worker Jose Alba finally home after judge lowers bail in self-defense case
By Patrick Reillyand
Steven Vago
July 7, 2022 8:44pm
The Manhattan bodega worker charged with murder after fighting off a violent ex-con in his store over the weekend was finally home Thursday night after he was released on bail in the highly publicized case.

Jose Alba, 61, arrived at his Hamilton Heights apartment around 8:30 p.m. wearing an electronic monitor hours after a Manhattan judge agreed to lower his sky-high bail from $250,000 to $50,000.

Alba, who was accompanied by one of his sons, covered his face and refused to answer questions as he went inside.

Alba refused to answer questions from reporters upon his return home.Christopher Sadowski
Before his release, Alba had been locked up at Rikers Island on a murder rap for his fatal encounter with Austin Simon, 35, on Friday night inside the Hamilton Heights bodega where he works.

Relatives and Alba’s boss posted $5,000 needed to spring him on a bail bond.

As part of his release agreement, Alba is also barred from leaving New York City and he had to surrender his passport, ensuring he will not be going to the Dominican Republic on a previously planned trip.

Alba’s bail was decreased from $250,000 to $50,000.Alec Tabak
Alba was working at the Hamilton Heights Grocery on Broadway when he was attacked by Simon, a career criminal with a history of violence who stormed behind the counter and shoved him into a wall, the video shows.

The ex-con then grabbed Alba as the frightened clerk tried to get past him — getting his hands on a knife and plunging it into Simon at least five times.

Simon’s girlfriend allegedly also pulled a knife from her purse and stabbed Alba three times in the shoulder and hand, according to his attorney. She has not been charged, with the DA’s Office saying only “we are continuing to review the evidence and the investigation is ongoing.”
Link to source:

NYC bodega worker Jose Alba finally home after judge lowers bail in self-defense case

Jose Alba, 61, walked out of the sheriff’s office in Long Island City with an electronic monitor hours after a Manhattan judge agreed to lower his sky-high bail from $250,000 to $50,000.

nypost.com

 

[Old Gray Mare]

New York has what is called "duty to retreat" if at all possible before lethal force is justified. You literally must be backed into a corner/closet/bathroom before you can pull the trigger. And Heaven help you if you passed a window, stairwell, or other means of egress and didn't take advantage of it.

In a Hawaii you're supposed to put two doors between you and the intruder, let the intruder take what ever property they want and defend yourself only if the intruder(s) have forced their way thru both doors, you've been demonstratablely and physically threatened and assaulted... oh and the state will still charge and arrest you..

It's more a duty to surrender than retreat. And the perp can still sue you for damages.

 

[Dobbin]

So counter help in NYC will become easier and cheaper to hire as a result of this altercation - and especially it's aftermath?

Dude should be given a horseshoe ring of flowers...

Dobbin