Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) has dropped assault charges against a Chinatown landlord who fought back when a vagrant attacked him with a block of wood spiked with nails in late August. The New York Post reported.
Bragg's office initially charged Harvard University graduate student Brian Chin, 32, with serious assault after the incident, the paper said.
“Instead of doing the right thing, [Bragg] He used his office to pursue a case against me for nearly five months. Which leads me to the question: How many other innocent people did he imprison?
The newspaper said Chin found the vagrant lying on the ground outside a subway station at Christie Street and Grand Street in Manhattan around 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 24. Citing a criminal complaint, the newspaper reported that Chin allegedly kicked the man three times.
Chin told the newspaper that she approached the man because she recognized him as a local beggar and wanted to make sure he was okay. Shortly thereafter he woke up and started screaming. ”
The newspaper said the two initially went separate ways after the encounter, but both returned a few minutes later.
Chin said he came back possessed by the spirit. Murder of renter Christina Yuna Leethe Post said two years ago. Mr. Chin blamed Mr. Bragg for Mr. Lee's murder in 2022.argued that the suspect in her murder had a long criminal history and that the incident could have been prevented.
“Especially after a murder, if someone is acting violently, I find it hard to stand by the front door and make sure all the tenants are safe so no one is followed. I like it,” Chin pointed out to the newspaper.
Details from the post:
The homeless man actually became violent, breaking a wooden chair and swinging a block of wood with nails driven into it at Chin, who pushed him down and punched him six times before the assailant quit.
When police arrived, the unidentified man struggled to his feet, blood gushing from his face, according to the complaint. As he tried to stand up, he fell backwards and hit his head on the railing of the subway station.
Authorities rushed him to Bellevue Hospital with facial and skull fractures, according to the complaint. He was then intubated and placed on a ventilator.
Chin told the newspaper that she tried to calm him down, but that she feared for her life during the battle.“I just wanted to go home to my wife and children,'' he said, adding that his mood afterwards was “ It was terrible,” he said. I don't want anyone to get hurt. ”
The newspaper reported that the assault charge against Chin could carry a sentence of up to seven years in prison, before Bragg decides not to pursue the case.
“It is our job to thoroughly investigate and prosecute acts of violence, including assault charges,” a representative for the Manhattan prosecutor's office said Sunday, according to the newspaper. “This case was dismissed and, as a result, sealed by the court.”
Is the process a punishment?
Chin told the newspaper she was frustrated that the accusations had been haunting her since the summer. “I'm more angry than relieved because this should never have happened.”
“For five months I had a never-ending waking nightmare where I was treated like a perpetrator of violence in the eyes of the law,” he told the paper. “I woke up every day thinking I would spend years in prison. I thought so,” he added. I have never committed a crime. ”
Chin also told the paper that she had to resign from her teaching job because she could no longer pass a background check, adding: “What was this for? Everything I've worked for for decades, my… It changed my life forever.”
He also pointed out to the Post that the homeless man was later charged with intimidation and that “I am personally abhorred that this case was filed.”
“From the beginning, with such abundant evidence, it was clear that I was the victim, not the perpetrator,” Chin told the newspaper. “Instead of doing the right thing, [Bragg] He used his office to pursue a case against me for nearly five months. So I begin to ask the following questions: How many other innocent people did he imprison? How many were attacked on their own property and weren't lucky enough to have access to exonerating surveillance footage? ”
The newspaper said Chin was comparing himself to Jose Alba. Bragg, a New York City deli worker, was charged with murder after Alba stabbed his attacker to death in 2022. Following public outrage over what many viewed as self-defense, Mr. Bragg dropped all charges against Mr. Alba.
“How many more victims, like José Albas and like me, will there be before the politicians who have been shielding him wake up to the fact that this is not how justice is done in this world?” How much more should we put the case in his hands?” The state? That's not what New Yorkers deserve,” Chin told the newspaper.
Chin's lawyer, Kenneth Gilbert, told the Post that Bragg saved face by dropping the charges against his client, adding: “If the case had gone to trial, it would have been embarrassing for the prosecutor's office.” .
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