In case you think the election of zohran mamdani as Mayor of New York signals the beginning of the end for the city…
…this should remind you that this is not the beginning. The process is already ongoing.
From David Spector, Tina Moore and Kathianne Boniello’s article for the New York Post:
An Algerian immigrant NYC cabbie driving without a partition or a camera allegedly assaulted two women in the back of his yellow taxi in separate incidents — and is still on the road, thanks to soft-on-crime Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, according to sources and court documents.
Mohammed Bellebia, 34, was allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges in at least one of the incidents, records showed.
One victim, Maile Bartow, 23, climbed into Bellebia’s yellow cab minivan around 2 a.m. on Nov. 10, 2024 to head home after a night on the town with friends, and said the hack touched her leg twice, ignoring her pleas for him to stop before groping her genitals, according to a lawsuit.
About a month later, on Dec. 12, 2024, Bellebia picked up a 2 a.m. fare, allegedly touching that woman’s leg throughout the ride and trying to remove the 33-year-old victim’s underwear, a law enforcement source told The Post.
He was arrested Dec. 19, 2024 and charged in both cases
“Oh my God,” Bartow gasped when she learned of the other alleged victim from The Post.
In Bartow’s case, Bellebia was facing misdemeanor charges of forcible touching and sexual abuse and could have faced a sentence from probation to a year in jail.
Instead, he pleaded guilty in March to disorderly conduct, a mere violation, and was set free on a conditional discharge — meaning he was to get no jail time as long as he stayed out of trouble, records showed.
“He’s back on the road driving the exact same taxi cab,” a disgusted Bartow said. “I wasn’t looped in at all. They didn’t ask me what I was OK with.”
Lovely.
And this is far from the only instance in which alvin bragg – who has no problem whatsoever charging President Trump with anything he can think of, no matter how asinine – made sure that criminals who should be prosecuted/off the streets walk away with little more than a warning, sometimes not even that.
As I said at the beginning of this blog, the end of New York City did not start with mamdani’s election, ugly though it is. The end of New York City was already in progress.
