Justice at Last for Bodega Worker Jose Alba
19th July 2022
Austin Simon, the thirty-five-year-old convicted felon who assaulted a bodega worker in the Hamilton Heights section of Manhattan earlier this month, might still be alive today — if it weren’t all but impossible for law-abiding New Yorkers to obtain a firearm.
Simon — dressed in diamond jewelry and a $300 T-shirt — stepped behind the counter to assault sixty-one-year-old Jose Alba, after Simon’s girlfriend’s EBT card was declined when she attempted to purchase a bag of potato chips.
A single shot to the leg would have neutralized Simon long enough for law enforcement and paramedics to arrive.
Instead, a gory, now-viral, confrontation ensued. Alba reached for a knife as Simon — at the time on parole for assaulting a police officer, and whose rap sheet included assault, robbery and domestic violence — lunged at him. Alba stabbed Simon repeatedly. Surveillance footage then appears to show Simon’s girlfriend stabbing Alba, as he fought off his assailant.
Black people behaving badly. What are the odds?
Simon later was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital and — shockingly, grotesquely — Alba was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. The ultra-woke, overweight, Soros-backed district attorney for Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, set Alba’s bail at $250,000, only to be reduced to $60,000 after widespread public outcry. It was only on Tuesday that Bragg bowed to public pressure and recommended that the charges be dropped.
Time to leave.