The Manhattan Criminal Court is housed in a high-rise of exquisite ugliness, a gray and beige structure that looks down on a tiny, sparsely-vegetated park through a hundred dark windows. Normally there’s not much going on around the building, but this morning the outside broadcast vans of the television stations are lined up there, stretching their satellite dishes into the blue sky; Men in suits and women in costumes practice their announcers in front of the cameras.
A lone protester also appeared. He holds up a sign that reads, “Google it! Geogre Soros funds D.A. Bragg”. Dozens of cameras focus on the man. Alvin Bragg is the District Attorney, the chief prosecutor for the District of New York, the first black man to hold that high position. The protester’s sign claims he is a hired hand to Jewish multi-billionaire Soros.
