The attorney for U.S. Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny is criticizing the decision to release the immigrants without bail who were charged with attacking two New York City police officers near Times Square over the weekend.
Surveillance footage of Saturday night’s brawl shows a group of immigrants assaulting an NYPD police officer and lieutenant after being told to move on.
The suspects were seen kicking the officers and running away. They were quickly arrested.
New York City police identified the suspects as Darwin Andres Gomez Izquiel, 19, Kelvin Servato Arocha, 19, Wilson Juarez, 21, and Yeoman Rebellon, 24. (who has two open cases for assault and robbery in Manhattan), and identified Joan Boada, 22, who is on the list. As homeless and illegal immigrants.
Boada was filmed shamelessly flipping the bird to waiting reporters as he was released from custody on Wednesday.
On Thursday, two more immigrants, Yohenry Brito, 24, and Jandry Barros, 21, were arrested in connection with the attack.
Brito was arraigned on the felony charge by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and held on $15,000 cash bail and $50,000 partial surety bond.
Mr. Barros was also arraigned and released on Thursday, and his next hearing is scheduled for February 21st.
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Late Thursday, the Manhattan prosecutor’s office declined to prosecute Mr. Barros.
“We strongly condemn assaults against police officers and will prosecute those responsible. The question here is whether the person arrested was involved,” a spokesperson for the Barros case told Fox News. Ta. “At this time, we do not have sufficient evidence that he is one of the individuals who committed this horrific act.”
Meanwhile, law enforcement officials told the New York Post that four of the migrants charged may have left California by bus.
Meanwhile, the NYPD is searching for additional suspects in connection with the attack.
Attorney Thomas Kenniff, who represents Daniel Penny, a retired Marine charged in the strangling death of a subway passenger last year, said the prosecutor’s decision to release the migrants without bail was “deeply perplexing.” “There is,” he said.
“The main purpose of bail is to make sure people come back to court,” Kenniff said in an interview on Fox News Digital. “[F]From what I understand, they don’t seem to have anything to do with New York City or anything at all. ”
Kenniff argued that limited resources may have played a role in this case, but that’s not “a reason not to set bail at all.”
He said the defendants had “indications that they were not willing to return to court to face the consequences of their actions.””
“Furthermore, anyone who attempts to resist arrest, or worse, assault a police officer, shows someone who has no respect for the legal system and is unlikely to return to court. It’s even lower,” Kenniff said. “If ever there was a situation where bail would be appropriate, this appears to be that case.”
Penny pleaded not guilty last summer to second-degree manslaughter in the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man and former Michael Jackson impersonator, but witnesses said Neely screamed and demanded money from him. It is said that he was nervous.
Prosecutors said Penny, with the help of two other passengers, pinned Neely to the ground and held her in a chokehold for several minutes.
Penny’s lawyers said in court filings that Neely’s erratic behavior posed an “extreme threat” and that the Marine veteran intervened to protect himself and other passengers. insisted.
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The judge granted Penny the same $100,000 bail condition under which he was previously released from custody.
Earlier this month, a New York City judge denied Penny’s motion to dismiss the criminal case against him.
The assault on the police officer underscored the city’s struggle to cope with the influx of migrants bussed into the Big Apple from the Texas-Mexico border.
