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
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
In releasing his initial witness ...