Bragg, a former federal prosecutor with the legal division of the US Legal professional’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York, defeated Republican Thomas Kenniff, a former prosecutor, JAG lawyer and Iraq battle veteran.
“Along with being the primary Black district legal professional, I feel I will most likely be the primary district legal professional who’s had police level a gun at him. I feel I will be the primary district legal professional who’s had a murder sufferer on his doorstop. I feel I will be the primary district legal professional in Manhattan whose had a semi-automatic weapon pointed at him. I feel I will be the primary district legal professional in Manhattan whose had a beloved one reenter from incarceration and stick with him,” Bragg stated at a victory speech Tuesday evening. “And I will govern from that perspective.”
“I simply knew from that early age, there could be a greater method to shield individuals’s civil rights, and get an actual sense of group primarily based public security,” Bragg informed CNN in February. “I understand how to get to true public security. And I can guarantee people that arresting individuals for issues which have completely nothing to do with public security don’t make it safer.”
Bragg was most not too long ago a chief deputy legal professional basic on the New York Legal professional Normal’s Workplace the place he says he helped sue the Trump administration greater than 100 instances, and led the crew that sued the Donald J. Trump Basis, leading to Trump personally paying $2 million to an array of charities and the muse being dissolved. Bragg additionally stated he oversaw a lawsuit in opposition to Harvey Weinstein and his firm that alleged a hostile work surroundings.
In January, Bragg informed radio present “Ebro within the Morning” he is ready to observe the info within the case.
“I’ve seen him up entrance and have seen the lawlessness that he can do,” Bragg stated within the interview. “I imagine we’ve to carry him accountable. I have not seen all of the info past the general public however I’ve litigated with him and so I am ready to go the place the info take me as soon as I see them and maintain him accountable.”
At his victory celebration on Tuesday evening, Bragg stated outgoing district legal professional Cy Vance known as him to congratulate him and that Vance has already confirmed to be a “great associate in what I feel goes to be a seamless transition.”
He would get to work, he stated, on Wednesday and plans to focus first on getting weapons off the road.
