Thread by @billybinion

Manhattan DA @AlvinBraggNYC is prosecuting a domestic violence victim for murder after campaigning on her innocence.

It's Jose Alba Part 2 without the media frenzy. I was mad about that case. I'm also mad about this one—and you should be, too. My latest🧵 reason.com/2022/09/02/man…

Alvin Bragg specifically ran on dropping the charges against Tracy McCarter, a woman who stabbed her abusive husband after he threatened her life. "I #StandWithTracy," he said. It was "self-defense."

Now that he's in office, he's trying her for murder. reason.com/2022/09/02/man…

It is difficult to put into words how unprincipled @AlvinBraggNYC has been. He campaigned on "ending mass incarceration."

And now the same prosecutor who publicly called this killing "self-defense" must ensure it is called murder in court. Obscene. reason.com/2022/09/02/man…

Bragg also campaigned on reforming bail. And yet when he won office, he initially tried to prohibit McCarter from leaving NYC to get psychiatric treatment...as a condition of her bail.

This is the same defendant who he said is innocent. reason.com/2022/09/02/man…

This isn't a first: There was Jose Alba. When Bragg dropped those charges, I wrote that not every defendant is lucky to attract such attention from the press.

Well, here we have McCarter, whose misery Bragg used to win office. She deserves your ire too. reason.com/2022/09/02/man…

This is likely about politics. Bragg wants to "end mass incarceration"—for the right people.

He is, after all, a politician. But while McCarter may have been useful on the campaign trail, she is apparently much less so after the fact. /end reason.com/2022/09/02/man…