Bodega Owner Finally Home After Judge Reduces Absurd Bail That Soros DA -- Who Releases Killers Without Bail -- Imposed

Killers have the right to kill you, but if you kill them in self defense, you will be brutalized by "your" government.

Because the criminal class is among the Democrats' most important constituencies.

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.

Video shows that Alba constantly attempted to de-escalate the situation that these degenerates brought into his shop, until the violence got too persistent to ignore.

A Manhattan bodega worker charged with murder tried to avoid the confrontation that led to him being thrown behind bars after he fatally stabbed a customer, new video shows.

"Papa, I don't want a problem, papa," Jose Alba, 61, calmly tells an angry Austin Simon as the man walks behind the Hamilton Heights deli counter, the footage reveals.

The video obtained by The Post reveals for the first time the words exchanged between Alba and Simon before the fatal encounter that set off a public outcry about whether the clerk, who is facing murder charges, was trying to defend himself.

Simon, 35, stormed into the Blue Moon convenience store on July 1, five minutes after his girlfriend tried to buy a bag of chips for her daughter and her electronic benefits card was declined. The woman contended Alba snatched the snack from the girl.

"Did you put food?" the girlfriend can be heard on video asking Alba about how he rang up the sale.

"OK, mama, let me do it another time. My God," Alba says.

"There's money on there," she insists.

The footage, which was edited, then cuts to other customers, and the woman yells from off camera, "You can't touch my daughter. Don't snatch that out of my daughter, you f--king piece of shit!"

Alba is not seen in the footage taking away the chips.

The woman goes on to say "I'm gonna bring my n-- down here and he gonna f--k you up. My n-- is gonna come down here right now and f--k you up!"

Alba says "That's not my fault, it's not working." He continues to ring up sales, telling one customer of the girlfriend, "She don't have money."

Another woman asked, "Did they take something from you?"

Alba replied, "No, I take it back."

Then Simon can be seen walking in and going immediately behind the counter.

"What's up with you? N---r what is wrong with you?" he demands.

Alba, 51, who was in the middle of ringing up a woman, holds out his left arm as Simon approaches him. The female customer reaches across the counter as if she's trying to get Simon's attention.

The fatal stabbing was edited from the tape obtained by The Post. But previously released video showed Simon push Alba into a chair before the two men start tussling and Simon was stabbed.

The video shows a bloody Simon laying on the bodega floor and his girlfriend crying out, "That was over $3. Three f--king dollars. He snatched something out of my daughter...please help him."

He took his own property away from your daughter, and it was your decision to bring in your thug convict boyfriend to rough him up "over three dollars."

But this is the environment the Democrats have made in the cities: Criminals feel self-righteously entitled to steal, and feel anyone stopping them is a Racist Karen (even if he's Afro-Hispanic) deserving of some good St. George Floyd retribution.

(I'm guessing Alba is Afro-Hispanic because I think he's from the Dominican Republican.)

A New York City bodega group wants a "stand your ground" law.

A New York City bodega group says the Big Apple should adopt a local version of Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law after a Manhattan store worker was charged with murder for defending himself.

United Bodegas of America -- which has rallied behind Jose Alba, the 61-year-old shop employee facing a slay rap after fending off a violent ex-con -- said Sunday that the measure is needed to protect others who toil behind the counter.

"Bottom line -- in Florida, this is what you would consider stand your ground," UBA spokesman Fernando Mateo said at a press conference, referring to Alba's case.

"That's what New York City needs," Mateo said of the law.

That won't happen because, again, criminals are a core Democrat constituency.

posted by Ace at 01:29 PM

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