An unknown man with a record for assaulting New York City employees bit off a police officer’s ear, requiring 20 stitches, and was released without bailthe authorities reported.
Identified as Donte Bynon, 32, was yelling obscenities as he approached two New York Police Department officers. (NYPD) heading to the subway station at West 137th and Broadway in Harlem, according to court documents.
“¡Te jode&*é!”, I shouted. “¡Voy a jode*#e!”, f—– b—–!”.
Posteriorly, the suspect walked next to a parked NYPD patrol car, causing the officer to get out of the vehicle to “calm” him downaccording to the records.
When officers tried to detain Bynon, he bit the officer on the left ear, “causing a laceration, bruising and bleeding.”in the event that occurred on Friday morning.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office said: the policeman needed 20 stitches to close his wound.
A defense attorney, Paul Leesaid in court on Saturday that his client was on his way to his mother’s house and was “talking to himself” while “acting under some stress” when he approached the agentsreported The New York Post.
City prosecutors asked for a $35,000 cash bond.However, the judge Judy Kim granted the lawyer’s request for supervised release, releasing Bynon with a return court date in October.
The subject has six previous arrests, three of them of a violent nature, a police source revealed.
In 2015, Bynon was charged with resisting arrest and in 2016, he allegedly attacked an MTA employee.
After, on April 27, he allegedly assaulted a police officer, knocking him down and punching him in the face repeatedlyexplained the source.
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