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Justice at last for bodega worker Jose Alba

Manhattan’s radical DA bows to public pressure after Alba defended his store

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Chadwick Moore
Jul 21, 2022
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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 — step…

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