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Cashier slay suspect cites Jesus, Mandela

By MATTHEW SEDACCA and GEORGIA WORRELL msedacca@nypost.com

The man accused of murdering a teenage East Harlem Burger King cashier during a $100 robbery whined that he is the one being victimized, comparing himself to Nelson Mandela and Jesus.

During an exclusive jailhouse video visit from Rikers Island, Winston Glynn — who ranted about slave reparations and screamed that America will “burn” — insisted he was innocent of the heinous Jan. 9 murder that kicked off a year of violence and lawlessness across New York City.

“What happened to Nelson Mandela, what happened to Jesus? Innocent,” said Glynn, 31, wearing a tan jumpsuit and staring with unflinching eyes. “I want to be a leader and all that. A lot of people are jealous, you know.”

Pretty cashier Kristal BayronNieves, 19, had been working her fast-food job for just three weeks, taking the gig to help her mom pay bills and to save for nursing school. But she feared working overnight shifts.

It was 45 minutes past midnight when, police say, Glynn barged into the East 116th Street restaurant wearing a black ski mask.

He pistol-whipped the store’s 59year-old manager, authorities said, before bashing another person over the head and turning to Bayron-Nieves to demand cash from the register. After she handed over roughly $100 and told him a second register was empty, Glynn shot her in the chest, police said.

Police busted Glynn at a Bedford-Stuyvesant address, where they found clothes the killer had allegedly worn the night of the attack in nearby dumpsters. Law enforcement said it recovered a phone he allegedly tossed into a subway tunnel and tracked the assailant via security footage to a nearby bodega, where he conducted an electronic transaction an hour before the fatal stick-up. Glynn was charged with first-degree murder. During the hour-long interview, Glynn rubbed his hands on his face as he tried to downplay the damning evidence.

He questioned why he would use a traceable payment just before the crime and why it took a witness days to identify him.

“Somebody probably made a call [to] a tip line, and I used to work there, that’s all,” he fumed, referring to his brief period as a cook at the East 116th Burger King where Bayron-Nieves was killed.

“There’s only one way this can go,” he added. “They let me go and I sue [the] city for holding me so long.”

This is not the first time Glynn has ranted about his “innocence.” After being arrested, he bellowed outside the 25th Precinct stationhouse in East Harlem that “America is gonna burn” and “Where’s our reparations for four hundred years of f–king slavery.” During his arraignment, he screamed “liar” several times at a judge.

During this week’s televisit, Glynn seethed that “the system” has “no regard for the lower class, like we are nobody.”

He also made bizarre allusions to Freemasons and the Illuminati, before claiming that families of the wealthy and powerful actually benefit from citywide crime and mayhem.

“Your grandma is a judge; your grandfather is one of the morgue, so if you kill somebody, he makes money with the body; the daughter is a doctor so if that person die, they treat them,” he meandered. “These people don’t want crime to stop, as long as it’s not affecting them.”

Family and friends said that Bayron-Nieves was a “genuine soul” who moved to the Big Apple from Puerto Rico six years ago to live with her mother and brother.

On Saturday, Bayron-Nieves’ mother, Kristie Nieves, told The Post with tears streaming down her face that her daughter was “a happy girl” and that the pair “spent all of [their] time together.”

“I woke up this morning thinking about her,” Nieves said, rubbing the white sheets on the perfectly made bed in her daughter’s room. “I come in here all the time.”

Nieves said she didn’t believe Glynn’s claims of innocence.

“He killed her. There is so much evidence against him,” she said. “For us, her family, it’s difficult to remember that day and to see his face.

“The problem is the whole city and all of the violence,” she added, shaking her head. “I want justice for my daughter.”

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