As migrants swarm the border, crime and violence have risen, with law enforcement heavily undermanned and with no power to retaliate.
The migrant “cowards” who allegedly ganged up on a pair of cops near Times Square should be jailed, an NYPD official said Wednesday — as yet another suspect in the shocking mob attack was cut loose without bail.
Jhoan Boada, 22, even took time to flip the double bird as he strolled out of Manhattan Criminal Court following his arraignment on charges of assaulting a police officer and obstructing governmental administration for Saturday’s caught-on-camera beating.
“I didn’t do nothing,” he muttered in Spanish as he exited a courthouse hallway in a hail of news camera flashes.
Boada was the fifth accused cop-attacker sprung on the bail-eligible rap, something NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell ripped as “reprehensible” earlier Wednesday.
“You have eight people attacking a lieutenant and a cop. The four that were arrested should be sitting in Rikers [Island] right now on bail,” the disgusted chief told reporters, as he noted cops are still hunting for three more suspects.
The gang of asylum-seekers ganged up on the two cops, kicking and pummeling them, after the officers broke up a disorderly group around 8:30 p.m. Saturday on West 42nd Street, near Seventh Avenue, according to cops and surveillance footage.
Police arrested four of the accused thugs at the scene, identified as Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, 19, Kelvin Servita Arocha, 19, Wilson Juarez, 21, and Yorman Reveron, 24.
All four were later arraigned on a count each of second-degree assault on a police officer and obstructing governmental administration, according to a criminal complaint.
None have work permits or known relatives in the city, the sources said.
A worker at a building near a migrant shelter on West 42nd Street that Gomez-Izquiel is said to have stayed at told said he recognized his photo, telling The Post, “I know that blonde hair.
“We are supposed to be f—ing helping these people and they come here and f—ing beat up our cops? It’s ridiculous,” the man said. “I don’t even talk to them.”
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