The lawyer for U.S. Marine veteran Daniel Penny is slamming the decision to release migrants without bail after they were charged with attacking a pair of NYPD officers near Times Square over the weekend.
Surveillance footage of the Saturday night scuffle shows a group of migrants attacking an NYPD officer and lieutenant after they were told to move along.
Surveillance cameras captured two NYPD officers being attacked near Times Square on Saturday. (NYPD)
The suspects can be seen kicking the officers before running off. They were arrested a short time later.
The NYPD identified the suspects as Darwin Andres Gomez Izquiel, 19, Kelvin Servat Arocha, 19, Wilson Juarez, 21, Yorman Reveron, 24 — who has two pending cases in Manhattan for assault and robbery — and Jhoan Boada, 22, who is listed as homeless and an illegal immigrant.
Kelvin Arocha, 19, left, Wilson Juarez, 21, Yorman Reveron, 24, and Darwin Gomez Izquiel, 19, are all charged with attacking a pair of New York City police officers. (NYPD)
Boada was filmed unashamedly flipping the bird at awaiting reporters as he was released from custody on Wednesday.
Jhoan Boada, who is charged with assaulting two NYPD officers in Times Square, flips off reporters as he leaves the courthouse Wednesday following his arraignment. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post)
On Thursday, two more migrants were arrested — Yohenry Brito, 24, and Jandry Barros, 21 — in connection with the attack.
Brito was arraigned by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office with a $15,000 cash bail and a $50,000 partial and secured surety bond bail for the felony charge. Barros was also arraigned Thursday and released, with his next hearing scheduled for Feb. 21.
Yohenry Brito appears at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday. He is charged with allegedly attacking police officers in Times Square. (Curtis Means/Daily Mail POOL)
The assault on the police officers has underscored the city’s struggle to deal with an influx of migrants who were bussed into the Big Apple from the Texas-Mexico border.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano, Bailee Hill and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
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