Three cheers for the Manhattan jury that rapidly acquitted CVS clerk Scotty Enoe of manslaughter for defending himself and his fellow workers in opposition to a deranged serial shoplifter.
This case ought to by no means have come to trial. Enoe ought to have been hailed as a hero as an alternative of being charged by the execrable Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg.
Certainly, if there was ever a clear-cut case of self-defense, this was it.
Enoe was attacked from behind by Charles Brito, who started to beat him savagely.
Outmatched by the brute and fearing for his life, Enoe took out a small folding knife and stabbed him within the liver.
Brito staggered onto the sidewalk and later died.
Enoe’s co-workers, too, they had been afraid of Brito, who had threatened to kill somebody, but Bragg pursued the case anyway.
We noticed this with Jose Alba and Daniel Penny, each charged with manslaughter by Bragg when — in self-defense — they killed individuals who had been violent, unstable and threatening them or others close by.
Bragg dropped the costs in opposition to Alba when public strain turned too nice.
Penny was acquitted.
The issue is that the DA believes crime is brought on by social ills, and the attackers are the true victims.
Circumstances like this one — and the leniency he’s proven to actual criminals — ship a message that law-breakers are free to pursue their depraved calling, and residents simply have to take a seat again and take it.
There’s no different strategy to clarify why he continues to cost hard-working New Yorkers and subway passengers with severe crimes when ugly conditions are thrust upon them, whereas permitting criminals off straightforward.
This Enoe acquittal drives residence the purpose but once more: Alvin Bragg must go — ASAP.
The earlier voters ditch him on the polls, the safer this metropolis will change into.
