Migrants released from jail after brutal NYPD cop assault reportedly skip town, show zero remorse: 'We don't have an answer'

Law enforcement believes four of the migrants accused of attacking New York City police officers fled after they were released from jail.

Over the weekend, a mob of migrants were captured on surveillance camera beating two NYPD officers outside a migrant shelter in Times Square. Police have arrested seven male migrants, all between the ages of 19 and 24, for assaulting the officers. Despite the nature of the allegations, six of the migrants were released from jail without bail.

Upon their release from custody, the migrants showed zero remorse for their alleged participation in the attack, flipping off news cameras.

Now, police believe four of the migrants have fled the state.

CNN reported:

But four of the suspects were released, given bus tickets by a faith-based charity and are en-route to Calexico, a California town on the US-Mexican border, according to a senior law enforcement official. Details about which suspects were on the bus were not immediately available, but the source told CNN the four migrant men, who were staying in a New York City shelter, used false names with the organization that purchased the bus tickets for them.

The New York Post and New York Daily News corroborated the report, all citing law enforcement sources.

A spokesman for the Office of Court Administration, Al Baker, confirmed that officials do not know the whereabouts of the defendants.

"The Court is not aware of the defendants' whereabouts but they are obligated to return to Court on their scheduled dates," Al Baker told the Post.

Sources, moreover, told CNN that police "have no legal authority to chase them or attempt to stop them" because prosecutors requested the migrants be released without bail and on their own recognizance. One source admitted to CNN that it "seem unlikely" the defendants will return for their forthcoming court date "given the circumstances around their departure."

If the defendants miss their court date, a judge will issue warrants for their arrest.

That Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) seemingly went easy on purportedly violent offenders who have now reportedly fled the Big Apple is causing yet another controversy for the far-left prosecutor.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said believes the migrants should not have been released from jail, and Gov. Kathy Hochul said the migrants need to be deported.

NYPD chief of patrol John Chell, meanwhile, said this incident demonstrates why the entire criminal justice system needs to be re-examined.

"This was a bail eligible offense. Why bail wasn't asked for, we don't have an answer for that, but the judge also had an opportunity to step in and remand them to Rikers — now these four are on a bus; the whole system needs to be looked at," he said.

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