Bodega Clerk Who Stabbed Attacker to Appear at GOP Bragg Hearing

April 12, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

A Harlem bodega clerk who fatally stabbed an attacker and was initially charged with murder by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will be a star witness at a US House hearing in New York highlighting violent crime in the city where Donald Trump is facing charges.

The Monday hearing at the Javits Federal Building — roughly a block away from the DA’s office in lower Manhattan — is the latest salvo in a battle between Trump’s political allies between Bragg, whose indictment against the former president was unsealed last week. Trump pleaded not guilty.

Alvin Bragg, Manhattan district attorney, during a news conference in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Donald Trump entered a not-guilty plea to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in a proceeding that took a little less than an hour.
Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg

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