What a crappy week for District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the George Soros multi-million dollar sponsored gift to the people of Manhattan.
Bragg, this new occupant of the office loaned by the public previously to legends including Robert Morgenthau was himself captured for such offenses as Trump Case Bumbling in the First Degree, and Non-controversial Search Warrant Stalling and Prosecutorial Inaction resulting in the death of a New Yorker.
It is good for Bragg that he will not meet the ballot casting voters again until 2025. The offenses he has committed thus far are grounds for dispassionate electoral displacement.
Or is this unfair? After all, the cynics would say, what’s another dead New Yorker. We read daily of some new madness occurring on our streets or in our subway system. Maybe the public has a hankering for the new blood sport some are calling please take your life into your hands if you travel or walk around on city streets after 9 pm. It is quite fair to say it is only a new model of the same game that we all thought had ceased to be so popular a mere thirty years ago, a spec in time.
On the charge of Trump Case Bumbling in the first degree, we cannot only blame Bragg. The case some in-the know former office prosecutors say is seven years old. But the handiwork of one William Rashbaum–the quite able New York Times chronicler of misfeasance, malfeasance and criminality–this past week makes one wonder why the case was dropped by Bragg, and why prosecutors more experienced than Bragg resigned in obvious public distress over the rookie D.A.’s decision.
Then there was the New York Post Tina Moore bylined story about the warrant that made sense to all, and the dead New Yorker who but for some unexplainable act might still be alive. Appears to be a clear case of Non-controversial Search Warrant Stalling and Prosecutorial Inaction. (Maybe in the first degree but a plea bargain is possible). The guy uses the gun in a domestic confrontation. The victim, a woman, identifies the gun, the bag in which the bad guy keeps the gun, and the guy. Cops say a warrant is justified. Again. And again. Response from D.A. Bragg’s office? Silence. Response from the bad guy with the gun in the bag who assaulted the woman? Shooting in which one is dead and one is wounded.
We New Yorkers tolerate much. The company that sells urine scented cleaning fluid obviously had its contract renewed, and their product is quite efficient as anyone who walks our streets or travels in many of our subway stations knows. The gangs are back on some of our streets, and yes it is about turf control and yes where there are drugs, there are guns. And walking can get you killed as in some neighborhoods vehicles have become licensed lethal weapons.
And then there is Mr. Bragg. Maybe it is unfair to single him out for sniping. His early meeting with fame has gone poorly. Is that really such a bad thing? Maybe he will get Trump. Maybe he will place prosecutorial fear into the hearts of those who do violence against Manhattanites. Maybe. But not until 2024 starts to become 2025. Maybe.
