Opinion
NYC career criminal freed after DA downgrades charge busted again for attack on sanitation worker
A violent profession legal who had a felony theft cost downgraded to a misdemeanor on the path of embattled Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg was nabbed for a random assault on a sanitation employee, courtroom information present.
Christian Corridor, 30, allegedly clocked the town employee within the face from behind in Chelsea on Wednesday, in keeping with a legal criticism.
AP picture of Alvin Bragg, picture of Christian Corridor.
(AP/Craig Ruttle)
“The defendant attacked a uniformed New York Metropolis Division of Sanitation employee in an unprovoked assault whereas the sufferer was performing his routine duties,” prosecutor Megan Mers mentioned Thursday at Corridor’s arraignment in Manhattan Felony Court docket on two counts of assault.
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Mers added that Corridor dedicated the alleged crime whereas he already had 19 open circumstances, 14 failures to seem and 10 lively bench warrants.
The prosecutor highlighted a November 2021 case wherein Corridor allegedly entered a Manhattan constructing, slammed one sufferer to the bottom and dragged him throughout the ground earlier than pulling out a knife and threatening to stab a second sufferer. He’s charged with misdemeanor assault and misdemeanor possession of a weapon in that assault.
Decide Kevin McGrath ordered Corridor held on $25,000 money or bond within the newest case on the request of the prosecutor.
Mers didn’t point out Corridor’s most up-to-date prior bust on Jan. 6 for allegedly threatening an worker at a Chelsea TJ Maxx with a pair of shears.
When the staffer tried to cease Corridor from leaving the shop with a haul of bedding, ladies’s footwear and bathtub provide merchandise, he allegedly pulled out the scissors and barked “Don’t f—king contact me!” the legal criticism says.
Cops arrested Corridor for third-degree theft, however prosecutors allegedly wrote up the criticism omitting particulars about the usage of a weapon and the menace to the employee, the New York Put up completely reported.
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The arresting officer refused to signal the criticism till the language was added in, in keeping with the newspaper.
However the theft cost towards Corridor was nonetheless diminished to misdemeanor petit larceny in accordance with Bragg’s controversial “Day One” memo, and he was freed with out bail.
Democratic candidate for Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg speaks to the press after casting his poll within the New York Metropolis election within the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., November 2, 2021.
Within the Jan. 3 memo issued two days after Bragg took workplace, he ordered prosecutors to downgrade industrial robberies to petit larcenies if the brandishing of a knife or different weapon “doesn’t create a real danger of bodily hurt.”
The soft-on-crime insurance policies outlined within the memo drew widespread outrage, and the beleaguered DA was compelled to reverse course in a letter issued to employees on Friday.
He wrote that industrial robberies dedicated “at knifepoint, or by different weapon that creates a danger of bodily hurt, will probably be charged as a felony.”
Cops, prosecutors and even protection attorneys hammered Bragg for the criminal-coddling agenda at a time when most classes of violent crime have surged within the metropolis.
