MTA officials bashed the court system after a vagrant with two open cases was “turned loose” last month – only to be arrested again Monday for allegedly throwing a female straphanger into an incoming Manhattan train.
Markeese Brazelis, 26, who already has sex abuse and trespassing cases hanging over his head, is accused of pushing a 23-year-old woman into a moving A train in a random Monday morning attack.
The victim struck the train and fell back onto the platform, causing bruises to her face, hands, knees and shoulder. She is expected to survive, law enforcement sources said.
Michael Kemper, the MTA’s chief security officer, was outraged that Brazelis was walking the streets after two recent run-ins with police.
“It’s beyond comprehension how this menace can be arrested two different times … only to be turned loose to cause more mayhem,” Kemper said in a statement Monday. […]
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