New York state will not normalise serious criminal conduct, no matter who you are, Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, has asserted, hours after former US President Donald Trump was arraigned in a courtroom.
Some prominent civil-rights figures including Rev. Al Sharpton are calling the arrest of former President Donald Trump a moment of "social justice," while Mr. Trump is slamming Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and two other Black prosecutors pursuing him as racists.
Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg became the first prosecutor in US history to charge a former or sitting president when he filed his indictment against