New York City police have confirmed that the department has charged both an alleged thief and the parking garage attendant who confronted him with attempted murder.
The charges raise questions about whether the Manhattan District Attorney's Office under Alvin Bragg will prosecute the graveyard shift employee. Bragg has faced criticism for not prosecuting certain crimes and other charging decisions.
Many on Twitter are calling the confrontation between the attendant, Moussa Diarra, and suspected thief, Charles Rhodie, a classic case of self-defense.
Diarra, 57, was also charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon for wrestling the gun wielded by Rhodie, 59, and shooting him after he was shot twice.
As the New York Post reports:
Believing the man was stealing, the attendant brought him outside and asked what was inside his bag.
Instead of cooperating, the man pulled out a gun, the sources said.
Diarra tried to grab for the weapon, and it went off — leaving him shot in the stomach and grazed in the ear by a bullet before he turned the firearm on the would-be thief and shot him in the chest, sources said.
Besides the attempted murder charge, police charged Rhodie with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and burglary.
One cop who heard of the attempted murder charge against the parking garage worker snarled, “People like Alvin Bragg have made this city unsafe and this worker is a victim defending himself.”
Both men were transported to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
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Those in Manhattan DA office and NYPD are felon and criminal friendly because they too are felons, criminals, traitors and domestic enemies. They want us disarmed so we are defenseless. Shouldn’t we all want them DEAD?
ABSOLUTELY! They destroy the laws that protect us all let’s hope everyone of them get caught in their godless evil trap! “What goes around comes around” the sooner the better, bad demoncrap cops are the worst kind of criminal!
You can’t fix stupid! If this article is correct in all aspects then this is a crime against all the citizens of NYC. Bragg is a typical political climber hoping to reaquire his reputation by being the first DA (dumb ass) to charge and prosecute a President of the U.S.A. He has a crappy case and has supposedly “lost” evidence germaine to the case. Another liberal nightmare and witch hunt.
The godless demonized demoncraps everywhere are standing truth on its head! They are destroying the very laws that have protected them! Can’t wait for that to turn around and BITE them!
Just more trash from NYC which needs to be fenced off to rot.
Bragg needs to be fired. The crime in New York City is out of control.
Bragg’s office will probably let the crook go free and jail the attendant. Bragg and his ilk are crime’s best friends.
Someone should start a Go Fund me for the attendant so that he can get an excellent lawyer to get him off. I don’t know how.
god created his globalists and his globalist puppets; soros and chester biden and zelensky and his demonrat criminal party and his rino criminal party and his media and all his CRIMINAL organizations to create hell on earth for all good people .
If Trump stole a candy bar when he was 6 , Bragg would turn that into a felony . Even tho it was Bragg who stole the candy bar .