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Brooklyn bodega clerk is slashed in the face after telling thug he couldn't use food stamps to buy beer

A drunken man viciously carved up a Brooklyn bodega clerk’s face Thursday after being told he couldn’t use food stamps to buy a $1.25 bottle of beer. “Sell it to me,” the suspect barked at Mutahar Murshed Ali, 34, in the Express Deli in Bushwick about 7:35 a.m. “Don’t get me mad.” Ali told the Daily News he held his ground, telling the enraged drunk he couldn’t buy the 22-ounce Colt 45 with a food stamp card. The suspect hurled a racial slur and then stormed out of the store, Ali said.

 

City Room: City Ban on Food Stamps for Sodas Is Rejected

Federal officials rejected a proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda with their benefits.

 

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