the problem is all of them bodega workers are assholes in general to black ppl in NYC

the problem is all of them bodega workers are assholes in general to black ppl in NYC
Family defends stabbing victim who confronted Harlem bodega worker, says ‘that was overkill’I thought blacks and Latinos in nyc were one??? I kept hearing blacks in nyc say how well they get along with Hispanics!
Family defends stabbing victim who confronted Harlem bodega worker, says ‘that was overkill’
By Liam Quigley and Leonard Greene
New York Daily News
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Jul 08, 2022 at 8:25 pm
He was not a monster.
The avenging boyfriend stabbed to death by a store worker he confronted in a Harlem bodega was a loving father who put his family first, relatives said Friday.
Austin Simon didn’t go into the Blue Moon bodega looking for trouble, his family asserted. Simon, 34, and the worker, Jose Alba, could have resolved their dispute without any bloodshed.
But within moments, Simon was mortally wounded, stabbed to death in a caught-on-camera clash that has even the mayor taking sides.
Still, Simon’s ex-wife said the viral security camera video that shows Alba holding the bloody knife doesn’t tell the whole story.
“He’s not the monster that they’re trying to make him seem like,” said Simon’s ex-wife, Tiana, 32, who did not want her last named used to protect herself from the public outcry over the case. “Everyone is judging him on a clip of video.”
Simon was killed July 1 when he confronted Alba over a bag of chips that his girlfriend had tried to buy for her daughter. The girlfriend said Alba snatched the snack from her 10-year-old daughter’s hand, according to a criminal complaint.
When the benefits card she tried to use for the purchase was denied, she told Simon, who went behind the counter where Alba, 51, was working.
Austin Simon (Obtained by Daily News)
In the video, Simon, who does not have a weapon, is seen pushing Alba to a chair behind the counter and towering over him while screaming in his face.
After speaking to someone on the other side of the counter, Simon then grabs Alba by the neck. Alba allegedly plunged a blade into Simon’s neck at least five times.
Supporters, including Mayor Adams, said Alba was just trying to defend himself. Alba was slashed twice on his arm, allegedly by Simon’s girlfriend, during the skirmish.
“What I saw on the video was a New Yorker doing his job,” Adams said. “That disruption of the job happened because someone was aggressive.”
Tiana, the victim’s ex-wife, disagreed.
“Personally, I don’t feel like it was self defense,” she said. “He stabbed him multiple times. That was overkill. Self defense for a push? You got pushed, you’re sitting there, going back and forth with words. He just was trying to make him apologize to the little girl.”
Video shows worker Jose Alba as he grabs a nearby knife and plunges the blade at least five times into the neck and chest of Austin Simon. (Obtained by Daily News)
Tiana said she and her ex had grown up together and had known each other since they were children. She said their split was simply the result of drifting apart — and that Simon cared about each of his nine children.
“Honestly, he was a great person,” she said. “When he loves people he loves hard.”
Alba posted bond Thursday after prosecutors requested a lower bail package. He was initially held on a $250,000 cash bail after he was charged in the knifing death.
After talks with Alba’s defense counsel, prosecutors agreed to knock his bail down to $50,000, a decision that did not sit well with Simon’s family.
“He was more concerned that [Alba] snatched the chips from a little girl,” said Danisha Simon, 24, Simon’s niece.
“You don’t do that to people’s children. People really don’t understand the real story. Everyone is saying it’s over a bag of chips. He died the way he went through life. You don’t disrespect women, or children.”
Simon’s cousin, Candra Simon, lays the blame for the fight at the feet of Simon’s girlfriend.
“What happened to my cousin and Alba started with her,” the cousin charged. “After not being able to pay for whatever with her card, she went and got my cousin involved.”
Relatives said Simon had a rough upbringing, but overcame it to be a devoted father and family man.
“He had a past,” Candra Simon said. “Everyone has a past. That does not mean he deserved to die like that.”
She also noted there’ve been tensions between Dominican and Black communities in the neighborhood that played a part in the conflict as well.
“No one will talk about the tension between the Black and Brown community in Harlem, how deli owners at times disrespect the men and women who grew up in those communities,” she said.
“He was wrong for going behind the counter,” Candra Simon added. “Alba was wrong for treating the girl disrespectfully.”
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Family defends stabbing victim who confronted Harlem bodega worker, says ‘that was overkill’
He was not a monster. The avenging boyfriend stabbed to death by a store worker he confronted in a Harlem bodega was a loving father who put his family first, relatives said Friday. Austin Simon di…www.nydailynews.com
Yeah this dude is straight up toxic, and deals with toxic people. The excuses!!! Goddamn.“Personally, I don’t feel like it was self defense,” she said. “He stabbed him multiple times. That was overkill. Self defense for a push? You got pushed, you’re sitting there, going back and forth with words. He just was trying to make him apologize to the little girl.”
Video shows worker Jose Alba as he grabs a nearby knife and plunges the blade at least five times into the neck and chest of Austin Simon. (Obtained by Daily News)
Tiana said she and her ex had grown up together and had known each other since they were children. She said their split was simply the result of drifting apart — and that Simon cared about each of his nine children.
Hold up, is there video of him doing it? She said that's what happened, but she has been proven to be a completely irrational person that sends people to confront a store worker over chips. She definitely exaggerated this, because the dead dude came in at 1000.all I know is that stabby domican is a fuckin asshole,
who snatches anything out a childs hand...
Im also curious as to if the benfits card actually had money on it..
Hold up, is there video of him doing it? She said that's what happened, but she has been proven to be a completely irrational person that sends people to confront a store worker over chips. She definitely exaggerated this, because the dead dude came in at 1000.
It starts with the ebt card WAS there actually money on it? If so why was he being a fuckin asshole??
That should be really easy to prove if there was money on it...
If it was, clearly the deli worker was being the PASSIVE aggressor... and initiated the whole
confrontation..
Whether or not that card had money on it, should be easy as fuck to prove or disprove...
and THATS where it all starts...
The Benefit card was denied so they can't get the chip. If you're running a business and people cards are declining will you still give the items away for free during a pending recession and inflation? Honest question.It starts with the ebt card WAS there actually money on it? If so why was he being a fuckin asshole??
That should be really easy to prove if there was money on it...
If it was, clearly the deli worker was being the PASSIVE aggressor... and initiated the whole
confrontation..
Whether or not that card had money on it, should be easy as fuck to prove or disprove...
and THATS where it all starts...
New York Post is an extremely racist newspaper with an emphasis on anti BlacknessThe descriptive terms below are fucking unbelievable. Talk about slanted journalism - has to be a CAC.
Shocking new video obtained by The Post shows the harrowing moment Manhattan bodega worker Jose Alba was apparently stabbed himself while fending off and fatally slashing a violent ex-con who attacked him. In the chilling footage, Alba, 61, battles back and slashes career criminal Austin Simon inside the Manhattan bodega July 1 — as the former convict’s girlfriend appears to pull a knife from her purse and stab the worker. Simon was later pronounced dead, while Alba was charged with his murder. The footage provides a new view of the bloody exchange. Simon’s unidentified girlfriend has not been charged in the case. The new footage shows Simon, 35, from a different angle going behind the counter and confronting Alba, who then scuffles with the younger man and pulls a knife from a candy shelf. Alba is seen repeatedly stabbing Simon and, after a few moments, the woman who has been identified as Simon’s girlfriend appears to take a knife from her purse and stab the worker. Police sources said Alba was stabbed during the assault but that the girlfriend denied to cops that she knifed him. The bodega clerk’s lawyer said during his arraignment last week that Simon’s girlfriend stabbed the worker three times in the shoulder and hand. The new footage shows Simon then laying to the back of the register in a pool of blood. Alba is seen in the background still holding the bloody knife. The girlfriend is seen crying and seems to be attempting to revive Simon at one point. Police arrive and take Alba, who suffered apparent stab wounds to the shoulder, into custody. The video comes after earlier surveillance clips showed Alba getting thrown into a wall by Simon, and another of Alba pleading with the younger man after he storms in. “Papa, I don’t want a problem,” Alba says in one of the earlier clips. The hard-working immigrant was charged with second-degree murder and ordered held on $250,000 bail until prosecutors negotiated a $5,000 bond last week.
Dumb."He died the way he went through life."
Yep. Which is why when I hear "black men don't protect black women" I'm likeThese hyenas love calling on black men to sacrifice themselves on their behalf.
We've seen this countless times where some bat shit crazy woman will call on her emotionally unbalanced man to be her vicious attack dog.
Now she'll be out here in these streets bragging while on her knees sucking the next nigga dick.
You play nigga games, you get...
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Bodega Clerk Who Fatally Stabbed Man Will Not Face Charges (Published 2022)
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s district attorney, said a murder charge against Jose Alba could not be proved. Mr. Alba’s supporters said he acted in self-defense.www.nytimes.com
I dont wanna get into the debate about who is in the right and who is in the wrong, but I do know when your fight or flight mechanism kicks in, all rational thought goes out the window.
You play nigga games, you get...
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Bodega Clerk Who Fatally Stabbed Man Will Not Face Charges (Published 2022)
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s district attorney, said a murder charge against Jose Alba could not be proved. Mr. Alba’s supporters said he acted in self-defense.www.nytimes.com
^^^If folks kept their hands to themselves, none of this will happen. He earned his way into da cemetery.
That was self defense. Plain and simple. Should've never been charged in the first place.You play nigga games, you get...
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Bodega Clerk Who Fatally Stabbed Man Will Not Face Charges (Published 2022)
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s district attorney, said a murder charge against Jose Alba could not be proved. Mr. Alba’s supporters said he acted in self-defense.www.nytimes.com
Nobody is saying he's a monster, what is being said is that he made a dumb decision and it cost him his life, but instead of turning it into a learning moment, they choose to paint him as a victim, to his own pitty party funeral!Family defends stabbing victim who confronted Harlem bodega worker, says ‘that was overkill’
By Liam Quigley and Leonard Greene
New York Daily News
•
Jul 08, 2022 at 8:25 pm
He was not a monster.
The avenging boyfriend stabbed to death by a store worker he confronted in a Harlem bodega was a loving father who put his family first, relatives said Friday.
Austin Simon didn’t go into the Blue Moon bodega looking for trouble, his family asserted. Simon, 34, and the worker, Jose Alba, could have resolved their dispute without any bloodshed.
But within moments, Simon was mortally wounded, stabbed to death in a caught-on-camera clash that has even the mayor taking sides.
Still, Simon’s ex-wife said the viral security camera video that shows Alba holding the bloody knife doesn’t tell the whole story.
“He’s not the monster that they’re trying to make him seem like,” said Simon’s ex-wife, Tiana, 32, who did not want her last named used to protect herself from the public outcry over the case. “Everyone is judging him on a clip of video.”
Simon was killed July 1 when he confronted Alba over a bag of chips that his girlfriend had tried to buy for her daughter. The girlfriend said Alba snatched the snack from her 10-year-old daughter’s hand, according to a criminal complaint.
When the benefits card she tried to use for the purchase was denied, she told Simon, who went behind the counter where Alba, 51, was working.
Austin Simon (Obtained by Daily News)
In the video, Simon, who does not have a weapon, is seen pushing Alba to a chair behind the counter and towering over him while screaming in his face.
After speaking to someone on the other side of the counter, Simon then grabs Alba by the neck. Alba allegedly plunged a blade into Simon’s neck at least five times.
Supporters, including Mayor Adams, said Alba was just trying to defend himself. Alba was slashed twice on his arm, allegedly by Simon’s girlfriend, during the skirmish.
“What I saw on the video was a New Yorker doing his job,” Adams said. “That disruption of the job happened because someone was aggressive.”
Tiana, the victim’s ex-wife, disagreed.
“Personally, I don’t feel like it was self defense,” she said. “He stabbed him multiple times. That was overkill. Self defense for a push? You got pushed, you’re sitting there, going back and forth with words. He just was trying to make him apologize to the little girl.”
Video shows worker Jose Alba as he grabs a nearby knife and plunges the blade at least five times into the neck and chest of Austin Simon. (Obtained by Daily News)
Tiana said she and her ex had grown up together and had known each other since they were children. She said their split was simply the result of drifting apart — and that Simon cared about each of his nine children.
“Honestly, he was a great person,” she said. “When he loves people he loves hard.”
Alba posted bond Thursday after prosecutors requested a lower bail package. He was initially held on a $250,000 cash bail after he was charged in the knifing death.
After talks with Alba’s defense counsel, prosecutors agreed to knock his bail down to $50,000, a decision that did not sit well with Simon’s family.
“He was more concerned that [Alba] snatched the chips from a little girl,” said Danisha Simon, 24, Simon’s niece.
“You don’t do that to people’s children. People really don’t understand the real story. Everyone is saying it’s over a bag of chips. He died the way he went through life. You don’t disrespect women, or children.”
Simon’s cousin, Candra Simon, lays the blame for the fight at the feet of Simon’s girlfriend.
“What happened to my cousin and Alba started with her,” the cousin charged. “After not being able to pay for whatever with her card, she went and got my cousin involved.”
Relatives said Simon had a rough upbringing, but overcame it to be a devoted father and family man.
“He had a past,” Candra Simon said. “Everyone has a past. That does not mean he deserved to die like that.”
She also noted there’ve been tensions between Dominican and Black communities in the neighborhood that played a part in the conflict as well.
“No one will talk about the tension between the Black and Brown community in Harlem, how deli owners at times disrespect the men and women who grew up in those communities,” she said.
“He was wrong for going behind the counter,” Candra Simon added. “Alba was wrong for treating the girl disrespectfully.”
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Family defends stabbing victim who confronted Harlem bodega worker, says ‘that was overkill’
He was not a monster. The avenging boyfriend stabbed to death by a store worker he confronted in a Harlem bodega was a loving father who put his family first, relatives said Friday. Austin Simon di…www.nydailynews.com
Wow nyc law actually didn’t fuck up this time… definitely think public opinion and outcry actually persuaded them to fall back on charging him.. definitely would’ve been an uproar if went other wayYou play nigga games, you get...
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Bodega Clerk Who Fatally Stabbed Man Will Not Face Charges (Published 2022)
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s district attorney, said a murder charge against Jose Alba could not be proved. Mr. Alba’s supporters said he acted in self-defense.www.nytimes.com
If you aggressively go behind the counter in a privately owned business, you have to accept the possibility of what's coming to you. Period.
He'll make a GoFundMe, move to Florida and live as a hero amongst the Cubans.Now he got to look over his shoulder since you know some woman in the guy's circle may push another man to try to get some get-back!
18 U.S. Code § 1111 - MurderAnd if you MURDER SOMEONE you should go to jail. Period.
I knew there was no way those dumb ass charges would stick,
BTW .......Who knew there was even a National Bodega Assoc.?!!! Didn't realize they were organized like that.
18 U.S. Code § 1111 - Murder
(a)Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, escape, murder, kidnapping, treason, espionage, sabotage, aggravated sexual abuse or sexual abuse, child abuse, burglary, or robbery; or perpetrated as part of a pattern or practice of assault or torture against a child or children; or perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree.
Any other murder is murder in the second degree.
There's no murder in that video, at best you could argue it's manslaughter but that doesn't fit either really
18 U.S. Code § 1112 - Manslaughter.
(a)Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice. It is of two kinds:
Voluntary—Upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion.
Involuntary—In the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or in the commission in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection, of a lawful act which might produce death.
its self defense and it's pretty obvious.
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