Prosecutor Alvin Bragg made history by indicting Donald Trump, the first time a former president of the United States has been charged.

Trump announced – through his lawyer – that he will surrender himself to justice next Tuesday, when the real legal and judicial series will begin.

The 49-year-old Democrat is the first African-American judge to head the Manhattan district attorney’s office: he was elected in November 2021 and took office on January 1, 2022.

From the ghettos of Harlem, a “pacifist” punisher of crime

Bragg, who was born in Harlem, in northern Manhattan, immediately became known for his progressive positions on criminal and repressive policies.

Having grown up in the Harlem neighborhood of the 1980s and 1990s, he recounted in 2021 that he had been “deeply scarred by the criminal chain, as he had attended three unconstitutional arrests, gun in hand, by the NYPD”, the police of the New York, whose treatment of black and Hispanic minorities has been repeatedly criticized.

Succeeding U.S. Attorney Cyrus Vance in January 2022, Alvin Bragg immediately announced that he would no longer prosecute offenses considered minor, such as refusing to comply or resisting arrest.

Bragg also pledged to seek lighter sentences for certain thefts.

Imprisonment should also be considered a last resort, Bagh believes.

Alvin Bragg was forced to back down after criticism from New York City’s African-American mayor and former police officer Eric Adams, who was elected in late 2021 by campaigning on fighting gun crime.

In the Trump-Stormy Daniels caseAlvin Bragg was accused in 2022 by the New York Times of delaying the indictment of the former president.

Two deputy prosecutors had thus resigned in February 2022, citing “doubts” that Bragg had allegedly expressed at the time regarding the investigation targeting Donald Trump.

But Trump on Saturday accused the prosecutor of being “corrupt and very politicized.”

In addition, Attorney Bragg succeeded in January in having the family business Trump Organization fined $1.6 million for financial and tax fraud.

It was the first criminal conviction for the group, which is awaiting a major civil trial this year. These “attempts to intimidate our services and threaten the rule of law in New York will not be tolerated,” the Manhattan attorney’s office warned.