Good luck getting them getting to show up for a trial

How will NYC find them ?

There's a reason they were released without bail. What was the person who was being arrested being arrested for? Was a crime committed? Why did the officers escalate and go "hands-on"? Looks like a public sidewalk to me. Law enforcement doesn't have any authority to move people along from a public space unless a crime is being committed. The common refrain when an officer or officers appear to engage in dubious activity is "I'll withhold judgment until all the facts are available". Shouldn't that apply here?

This story is a Conservative gold mine and it's sad to see DU'ers just, sheepishly, going along with it.

Thats ridiculous. Its news & its important.
Video shows the cops being attacked while on the ground. Thats not acceptable. The Mayor says its not acceptable. The Governor says its not acceptable. They're hardly right wingers.
The suspect wasnt being assaulted, he was resisting.

I was responding to, " Ridiculous they were released without bail. They shouldn’t be released at all." Do you agree with that sentiment?

They're an obvious threat to society & there should be no bail for those types.
And I'd bet 99% of those in Times Square would agree

The NYPD says those arrested were:

A 19-year-old from Mississippi
A 19-year-old from a migrant shelter in the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn
A 21-year-old from a migrant shelter in Queens
A 24-year-old from a migrant shelter on Jefferson Street in Brooklyn
A 22-year-old

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nypd-officers-attacked-times-square-migrant-shelter-arrests/

Look at those ages? Mississippi ?

At least two of the suspects were free on the street after prior shoplifting arrests, police said.

It is a dignity thing. They are charged and have to face judgement, if they don't face judgement and run then they are fugitives and will be put in jail or deported.

Check out Post #29. One in November, one in December and now one in January. At that rate, maybe the DA might do something by summer after he gets 4 more.

Looks real dignified in the picture in Post #29

from a police officers grasp? It is not always harmful. Cops use it all the time.

Our police and courts in New York have been dealing with immigrants for a long time. Statue of Liberty and all? Like others on this post I will wait for the facts. That guy in the picture could be an another puke staged event.

Unless you believe the officers and the other victims deserved it

defended themselves against police misconduct and unlawful arrest, right? I also love the, very liberal, "HE HAD PRIORS" defense. Hmmm... Do you think the NYPD knew about those priors before they decided to abuse their authority? See also, poisoning the well.

They were just defending themselves by kicking a cop down on the ground in the face?

Surprised that someone would defend cops getting attacked like that.

When the charge is a violent crime, particularly if the accused has a prior history of violent crime arrests, is currently out on bail, or is "undocumented" (meaning a full criminal history can't be verified) then I support continued detention. In the case of some of these offenders, there is not only a checkered history of violent crime- there's a *recent* history of it.

We've all seen those stories that come up about someone killing someone else, and then it's reveled they were arrested 12 times in the past year and we get angry then and ask, "why were they on the streets?" I'm not sure how to reconcile that POV with no-bond bail to those arrested repeatably for assault.

I’m certain that every effort was made to ensure that the rights of this immigrant were protected; and that no profiling or pejoratives were uttered during this altercation.

Sounds like a cop had a FAFO moment…

Including a drop kick to the face?

Its no wonder.......

At some point he's going to assault the wrong person.

How many more people he is going to victimize?

Wonder if he has an asylum claim pending?

Whoever is in charge of these decisions in NYC simply HAS to go. But is there any way to do it other than waiting till the next election?

People I know in NYC are way past sick of this stuff. I never went to NYC back when it was the "bad old days"; only after things got cleaned up. I dont want to see it fall backwards.

3 assaults in 6 months? Yeah. I don't care if he's an asylum seeker or what. He needs to be on the first plane back to Guatemala or wherever he's from.

Cliches aren't nearly as much fun today.

According to Wikipedia:

I'd like to know why it happened. Also, were the officers in question involved in any unbecoming activity prior to the assault?

Because thats generally not acceptable. As has been mentioned here over the years numerous times.

include the random and spurious murder of citizens on a daily basis by fascists in law enforcement. No, I don't take their word and I don't trust the thin blue line.

Get the neo-nazis out of law enforcement.

He's not a "lock 'em up" type of guy, and has been really bad on prosecuting these types of crimes.

But in this instance, it's on the DA.

That's just sad.

"You want to know why our cops are getting assaulted? There's no consequences and we must change this," said NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell.

They’ll get the same treatment here. Our Alameda County DA doesn’t want to “over criminalize.”

There’s a big push to recall her.

since when?

Where's the consequences?