Calls are growing across New York City to drop the charge of murder against a Manhattan bodega worker for killing an assailant who was attacking him inside his store on July 1.
Store video shows that Jose Alba was at work in a modest bodega in Upper Manhattan when Austin Smith came behind the counter and physically accosted him. During the alteration, Alba stabbed Smith multiple times with a knife, killing him.
“It is outrageous. The surveillance video makes it very clear that Mr. Alba was defending himself from an aggressive, violent attacker. He should not have been charged,” New York City’s 44th District Councilman Kalman Yeger, a Democrat, told The Epoch Times….