A group of eight migrants accused of pummeling a pair of cops in a caught-on-camera Midtown attack are “cowards” who “should be sitting on Rikers Island,” a top NYPD official says.
One of the suspects took a defiant posture Wednesday, flashing two middle fingers after being arraigned in court.
All five young men taken into custody so far for the Saturday night brawl outside a migrant shelter on W. 42nd St. near Seventh Ave. have been released without bail — enflaming the already heated debate surrounding the city’s migrant crisis.
[Did prosecutors even ask for bail? Or did they give cops and New Yorkers the finger, too? The NYDN claims that they can’t find out whether the DA demanded bail, but is it that difficult for the local newspaper to get an answer to that question? — Ed]
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