WATCH: Alvin Bragg Set to Make History as Manhattan’s First Black District Attorney

‘We have been given the power,’ Alvin Bragg told supporters Tuesday. ‘We will use it for both fairness and safety in Manhattan.’ PHOTO: CRAIG RUTTLE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Alvin Bragg, a former top deputy to New York’s attorney general, was poised to become Manhattan’s first Black district attorney and to take over the investigation of former President Donald Trump after his closest opponent conceded in the Democratic primary.

Bragg learned about the criminal justice system firsthand growing up in Harlem. During a trip home to New York City from college, Bragg was with a group of friends leaving a basketball game when they were surrounded by police.

“They falsely accused us of stabbing someone in Central Park,” he said. “That was shortly after the Exonerated Five trials.”

Bragg recalls being stopped and frisked at gunpoint by police officers three times as a young man.

“Those early stops got me really invested in saying, ‘we’ve got to change this system,’” he said.

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SOURCE: PIX 11, Ayana Harry