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On May 1, celebrated worldwide as International Workers’ Day, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg delivered a gift for employees at a Midtown sports bar.
On May 1, celebrated worldwide as International Workers’ Day, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg delivered a gift for employees at a Midtown sports bar.
Alvin Bragg, Manhattan district attorney, talks about recent work his office has done vacating wrongful convictions, a statistical decline in crime and more.
“Kamal Semrade violently pushed a woman into a moving train, uprooting her life and leaving her with catastrophic, permanent injuries, including paralysis,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement. “After the attack, Semrade callously fled, leaving the victim helpless on the platform.”
The Queens man who shoved a young woman into a moving E train at the Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street station — leaving her paralyzed from the shoulders down — will spend the next two decades behind bars.
Less than a month after being convicted of Attempted Murder by a jury of his peers for a horrific attack inside an Upper East Side subway station that left a commuter paralyzed from the shoulders down, the 42-year-old homeless man who shoved her has learned his fate, prosecutors say: a lengthy prison sentence.