Former President Donald Trump planned to meet with bodega workers in Manhattan after his second day in court Tuesday.
NEW YORK -- Former President Donald Trump planned to meet with bodega workers in Manhattan after his second day in court Tuesday.Secret Service and the NYPD had the area surrounded West 139th Street locked down. The whole neighborhood stood for hours awaiting the former president's arrival.The location of the meeting was significant.Two years ago at the Hamilton Heights bodega, then-clerk Jose Alba was charged with murdering a man behind the counter.
He spent five days on Rikers Island until a judge lowered his bail.After public outcry, District Attorney Alvin Bragg dropped the charges against Alba.Trump is scheduled to speak Tuesday with several local bodega owners and the president of the bodega association about crime and inflation.CBS New York's Ali Bauman asked the bodega association president what he expected ahead of the meeting.
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