Posted on 08/19/2022 12:12:27 PM PDT by grundle
A man arrested on an attempted-murder charge, who also is a registered sex offender, was dismissed from court in New York City on supervised release without bail Thursday after his charge was reduced to a misdemeanor.
Bui Van Phu, the 55-year-old man accused of brutally sucker punching a diner Friday night, inflicting trauma to the head that posed significant risk to his life, had his charges lessened to third-degree assault and second-degree harassment by Bronx Criminal Court. The grounds for the lower charge were that he “‘intentionally (caused) physical injury and with intent to harass, annoy or alarm another person,”’ according to court records obtained by the Daily Mail.
Phu had been incarcerated for six years with lifetime parole after he was convicted for attempted robbery in 1991 and raping a 17-year-old girl at gunpoint in 1994, for which he was designated a Level 3 sex offender. Phu was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon and robbery in New York City in the 1990s, the outlet reported. He has been out of prison since March 2019.
A video from the New York Police Department shows Phu leaving the Fuego Tipico restaurant in the Bronx, putting on work gloves, and without apparent provocation violently punching 52-year-old Jesus Cortes in the head from behind. The victim suffered a fractured skull, a broken cheekbone, and a brain bleed, and he is currently in a coma at the hospital.
Cortes’s family members were dismayed to hear of the vicious attack and expressed outrage that the perpetrator is now roaming free.
“That kind of person shouldn’t be out on the street,” the victim’s sister, Veronica Cortes, 50, told the N.Y. Daily News.
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I almost expect them to file charges against the guy who was sucker punched — the guy who is currently in a coma.
Another cesspool Democrat-controlled city where justice is thrown out the window.
What would happen if someone did this to a democRAT politician?
Democrats and others who work for oligarchs will legalize drugs, disarm you and protect the criminals who attack you.
Linda Blair from The Exorcist.
Uhhhh, it's summer--so why would anyone put on gloves to go outside?
In other words, "work gloves" my Royal Irish A**. Those were martial-arts gloves--I'm guessing with metal cladding embedded over the knuckles. No one would intentionally punch another man on the hardest part of a human head (as this psycho did) with a bare hand. In that scenario, martial-arts gloves are a murder weapon.
Considering the intentional life-threatening injury with the lack of provocation, it looks like Mr. Kung Phu needs to swing from a rope for everyone else's safety.
RAT judges protecting a protected class - blacks.
I am speechless. This is not justice.
NYC is simply insane. No way I would live there.
Meh, let all the Leftist run cities continue to devolve into 3rd world level sh*tholes for all I care. Reap what you sow.
Considering the gravity of the crime, that’s a slap on the wrist.
Family was “dismayed” but watch them vote for dems....again. one can only hope the Mo-rons who vote for this qwap would just STOP IT! but I’m not holding my breath. Just lucky to live in the free state of Florida.
TEXAS is sending them more perps every day by bus from the border.
A description of Oregon.
family members were dismayed to hear of the vicious attack and expressed outrage
If I know the homies in Bronx, his life is going to be measured in nano seconds once they find out where he lives.
Fight back or be a victim
Take him out
You gotta keep ‘em separated
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