Shocking video captured the moment a migrant mob pounded a pair of cops near Times Square over the weekend — but the busted cowardly suspects were still released back on the street without bail, sources say.
The footage shows an NYPD officer and lieutenant initially telling the migrants to move along around 8:30 p.m. Saturday on West 42nd Street in Manhattan — before things quickly get rowdy as a scuffle breaks out between the cops and a suspect who is wrestled to the ground.
That’s when the rest of the punks converge on the officers, raining kicks to the head and body of the pair of New York’s Finest as the cops rumble with their pal, whose yellow sweatshirt is completely torn off in the melee.
The video shows the two officers left on the ground as the pack runs east on 42nd Street toward Seventh Avenue and gets away — although not for long.
Police busted four of the asylum-seeking thugs, identified by sources as Darwin Andres Gomez Izquiel, 19, Kelvin Servat Arocha, 19, Juarez Wilson, 21, and Yorman Reveron, 24.
All four were charged with assault on a police officer and released without bail, sources said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the charges against the men were bail-eligible. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to a Post request for comment Tuesday.
The two assaulted cops, who were not identified, suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene.
“Attacks on police officers are becoming an epidemic, and the reason is a revolving door we’re seeing in cases like this one,” said Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry in a statement. “It is impossible for police officers to deal effectively with crime and disorder if the justice system can’t or won’t protect us while we do that work.”
The shocking incident is just the latest example of asylum-seekers running afoul of the law in the Big Apple since migrants began flooding into the five boroughs since the spring of 2022.
More than 172,000 migrants from the US border with Mexico have flooded into the Big Apple over that span, with more than 67,000 still housed in city shelters and hotels.
A small percentage of the asylum-seekers have been tied to crimes, including the fatal stabbing of a 24-year-old migrant at a city shelter on Randall’s Island on Jan. 7.
The Post reported this week that nearly 100 migrants also have popped up on the NYPD’s radar as suspected pickpockets. One team of the accused sticky-fingered asylum-seekers was busted over the weekend for allegedly targeting Greenwich Village bars.
Also this month, residents near Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, where a 2,000-bed migrant tent shelter was erected, complained about “lawlessness” by the occupants there.
By September, more than 40 migrants had been arrested at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, the city’s intake center for the thousands arriving in the city, too.
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