New York City bodega owner Jose Alba told the House Judiciary Committee about his harrowing experience being jailed for fighting off an attacker in self-defense and that the incident left him fearful of facing gang retaliation.
Alba spoke to the House Judiciary Committee Monday, recounting how he was jailed in Rikers Island for defending his own life.video of Alba’s testimony, where he described “[taking] pride in the hard work” he put into the bodega, where he “owned [his] own money to support [himself] and [his] family.”
He then described being attacked after telling a woman “her payment was declined.” Allegedly, the woman’s boyfriend, the above-mentioned Austin Simon, attacked Alba, and the woman allegedly attacked him also.He said, “When I came before the judge the prosecutor said I was being charged murder in the second degree. They asked for bail, even though so many people are being let go these days. And I couldn’t afford it.
Alba noted that he arrived at jail injured from the bodega attack “but did not get the medical treatment [he] should have received.”and the writer/curator of
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