Migrant mob who attacked NYPD cops should’ve been held, Hochul says: ‘You don’t let them out’
NY Post
Gov. Kathy Hochul blasted the decision to set free a group of migrants who were caught on video attacking two NYPD officers near Times Square last month — but said the state’s controversial bail reform wasn’t to blame.
A mob ganged up on the officers in the shocking attack on Jan. 27, but several suspects were cut loose on the bail-eligible crimes, with one of the accused defiantly giving the middle finger with both hands to journalists as he left court.
Some of the accused may have since fled to California.
“A number of them, we think, went on a bus,” Hochul said during a Tuesday morning appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“They were freed because no bail was posted,” she said. “I worked hard to change the bail laws in New York state. Those crimes were bail-eligible, they had a right to be held.”
Investigators believe Darwin Andres Gomez, 19, Kelvin Servita Arocha, 19, Wilson Juarez, 21, and Yorman Reveron, 24, gave phony names to a church-affiliated nonprofit group that helps migrants get rides out of New York City, sources previously told The Post.
