Yesterday's post on Intersectionality may have been an April Fool's story; this one, sadly, is no joke

“In NYC, car theft is not a crime — so this was an unjustified shooting”

Wounded man wrestles gun away from thief and and shoots him. DA Alvin has charged him with attempted murder and illegal possession of (the robber’s!) gun.

A Manhattan parking garage attendant who was shot twice while confronting an alleged thief — then wrestled the gun away and opened fire on the suspect — has been charged with attempted murder, police and sources said.

The overnight worker, identified by cops as Moussa Diarra, 57, was also hit with assault and criminal possession of a weapon charge in the Saturday incident, which unfolded around 5:30 a.m. as the attendant saw a man peering into cars on the second floor of the West 31st Street garage, the sources said.

Believing the man was stealing, the attendant brought him outside and asked what was inside his bag.

Instead of cooperating, the man pulled out a gun, the sources said.

Diarra tried to grab for the weapon, and it went off — leaving him shot in the stomach and grazed in the ear by a bullet before he turned the firearm on the would-be thief and shot him in the chest, sources said.

But wait! Witness the even handed application of the law under Mr. Bragg!

The suspected thief, identified as Charles Rhodie, 59, was also charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon, as well as burglary, police said late Saturday. [charges that are sure to be dismissed when Rhodie is let go with an apology and a kiss — Ed]

UPDATE: It turns out, even an affirmative action Harvard grad can read headlines, and charges have been dropped against Moussa Diarra.

But not before he went through this, Saturday through late Sunday afternoon.