Did you take the under in the line we set yesterday as to how many days it would take Manhattan’s “progressive” prosecutor to do a 180 and drop attempted murder charges against a wounded parking lot attendant? Congrats if you did, because the Soros-backed District Attorney surprised even us with how quickly he realized that he’d created another public relations nightmare for himself and moved to rectify it.
After being shot twice by a man trying to rob him Saturday, Moussa Diarra managed to wrestle the gun away and shoot his attacker. In Manhattan, average citizens who try to defend themselves are treated worse than common street criminals, so Diarra was charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon.
Bragg’s office has a history of questionably slapping felony charges on crime victims (see the case of Jose Alba). So while New York City voters were appalled by the charges against Diarra, by now it shouldn’t really have surprised them.
In this case, however, Bragg moved quickly to minimize the public relations and political damage by dropping the charges against the victim who’s in a hospital with two gunshot wounds. Bragg dropped he charges “pending further investigation.”
From the New York Post . . .
“We are more than pleased with the result,” Diarra’s lawyer, Charles Clayman, told The Post on Sunday.
“I think what they wanted to do was sort things out, and both men had been shot,” he said of police. “And they just didn’t have time just to start talking to witnesses at that point.
“By this morning, people understood exactly what had happened, what a hero and victim my client was. Obviously not the perpetrator,” he said.
“So all’s well that ends well.”
Bragg probably has bigger fish to fry these days and must have figured persecuting yet another working class New Yorker was a self-inflicted wound he doesn’t need. But if you live or work in New York City, the message is clear. Defend yourself at your own risk.
