Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg under fire for going soft in violent attack on NYC nurseBy Larry Celona and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
February 16, 2023
Soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is under fire once again — this time for his apparent kid-gloves treatment of a violent attack on a nurse at a Harlem hospital, The Post has learned.
The vicious assault was among a spate of attacks on healthcare workers at the same Mount Sinai hospital in a matter of days, according to sources and police records.
Valentino Tablang, 55, a registered nurse at Mount Sinai Morningside, was so violently slugged by a deranged patient on Feb. 7 that he told The Post he feared he might be blinded.
Yet Bragg’s office filed only slap-on-the-wrist misdemeanor charges in the case — despite a state law that prescribes felony raps in on-the-job attacks on healthcare workers.
“The attack was bad enough, but then I became more upset when I saw that the district attorney only charged her with an assault in the third degree, a misdemeanor,” Tablang told The Post this week.
“That is crazy,” he added. “I’m very disappointed.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/manhattan-da-went-soft-in-brutal-attack-on-nyc-nurse/
