To my knowledge, there's no video of the altercation.
What we do know is that Enoe is a 47 year-old CVS employee, and that that's one of several jobs that he works because he has sickle cell animia, and needs the money to keep up with his medication. We also know that Enoe is an immigrant.
We know that he has no prior criminal record. We know that he's facing spending the rest of his life in prison for the stabbing death of a 50 year-old homeless man who was trying to steal various items. Enoe confronted the man, at which time the homeless man punched Enoe in the face and threw Enoe to the ground. We know that it's on record that there were several contusions on Enoe's face consistant with Enoe's story. We also know that Charles Brito, the homeless man, by contrast the Enoe, had more than a dozen prior recent arrests.
Both men involved are men of color. I personally don't think that that matters; but, Alvin Bragg sure as fuck does. Still, this is an indicator that Alvin Bragg isn't all about race -- he's all about oppression indexes. Still, it seems like Enoe, at one point in the recent past, would have been a sympathetic figure to people of the left.
The fact that Enoe was charged with murder so swiftly does indicate that Alvin Bragg is simply pro-criminal. Enoe did his job attempting to stop a criminal from doing a criminal thing It seems more likely than not that the criminal escalated the criminal behavior to felony assault and battery, and Enoe defended himself. Who is more likely to be the aggressor: the guy with more than a dozen priors, or the guy with no criminal record who is working two jobs?
Still, no matter where you stand on self-defense, the series of decisions that lead to this encounter happening in the first place comes back to these woke DAs and the governors and mayors and individuals.
New York, particularly Braggs' area of operation, has effectively stopped prosecuting property crime. You combine that with the state-wide bail policies, and what you're obviously going to get are dozens of cases like we've already seen of people who have been arrested a dozen, dozens, even over a hundred times in one case of which I'm aware for property crimes, who spent less than a day in jail for each arrest, and ended up finally killing or maiming somebody who got in their way at the wrong time.
Now, some of you are still gonna say that the only reason why Mr. Brito was shoplifting was because he was desperate, and he's only stealing from a major chain store that can handle it.
Well, let me educate you privileged, white leftists whose daddy probably forked out the money for you to study lesbian dance theory just so you could learn that daddy is an evil, white patriarch.
I worked at a CVS while I was in college. Incidentally, I worked at a CVS in LA that was robbed at gun point (although I wasn't there when it happened). These are frachises. The individual owners of the individual store fronts are the people on the ground who have to deal with this shit. Certain locations put their birth control products behind lock and key.
This isn't because they want customers to awkwardly ask employees to open the case to get a box of condoms or a pregnancy test, it's because they're items that are often stolen. Recently, in parts of the country like New York and Oakland and Chicago, stores have been doing the same thing with laundry detergent and deodorant because people are stealing them by the cart load, because they don't expire and can be sold at any time. This hurts the individual store fronts that are being targeted. If those store fronts stop making money, they close. If they close, people lose their jobs.
This isn't a case of Enoe valuing property over Brito's life. This is a case of Enoe valuing his job, and confronting Brito, who valued the property more than he valued Enoe's life. Enoe isn't a rich man. He's just trying to get by.
If anything, any true man or woman or the left should be rallying around Enoe.
"Look at this black man. This immigrant. This man with a chronic illness struggling to pay for his medication. This guy who has to work two jobs and two side hustles just to make ends meet while y'all get to go out for dinner tonight, or you can even afford to have pets, or go see a movie once a week. He has to deal with all of that shit; and, after all that shit, he has to be assaulted for simply doing his job, and now the man wants to take the rest of his life away from him."
That would be what people on the left would be saying if anybody on the left were still sane.