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On last July 13, Alex Garcia, a manager-chef at a Newark, New Jersey, restaurant, was in the City National Bank when he saw a man brandishing a pair of broken scissors threatening to rob a woman of a bag of money. The bank customer, Rosemarie Scavone, was bringing the cash from her job to deposit in the bank.
Garcia chased and tackled the robber, who then attacked Garcia with his scissors. But Garcia's actions had delayed the man sufficiently for police officers to arrive on the scene and arrest the suspect. Police also seized all of the stolen money, about $1,000.
By happenstance Newark's mayor, Cory Booker, was at the same bank that day, and he witnessed the attempted robbery. It was especially fitting, therefore, that Mr. Booker presided over a ceremony in Garcia's honor. During the ceremony, reported by the ...