Migrant Charged in Brutal Beating of NYC Cops Had Been Caught at Border — and Released

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NEW REPORT: The Case of Yohenry Josue Betancourt-Brito, an illegal alien who brutally attacked NYPD officers in Times Square.

This report reveals how Betancourt-Brito, released by the Biden-Harris Administration after being apprehended in May 2023, went on to face serious… pic.twitter.com/lq86o3iP8q

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Migrant charged in brutal beating of NYC cops had been caught at border — and released — last year
By Jennie Taer and Josh Christenson, NY Post, Aug. 27, 2024, 6:59 p.m. ET

The migrant accused of leading the infamous beat-down of two cops in Times Square had been nabbed illegally crossing the US border just months earlier — but was released by the Harris-Biden administration.

Yohenry Brito, 24, of Venezuela crossed the border illegally into El Paso, Texas, and was apprehended by border agents May 9, 2023, according to a House Judiciary Committee report on the migrant’s file exclusively obtained by The Post.

Brito went on to be arrested multiple times for a slew of crimes in New York City — including the melee beating of a pair of NYPD officers in Manhattan in January.

The suspect is currently being held on bond over the beating and several other of the crimes.

DHS was slow to turn over the records on Brito to congressional officials, sitting on them for three months after Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Chairman Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) first requested them, the committee said.

The Judiciary panel called out “President Joe Biden and ‘border czar’ Vice President Kamala Harris” for the release of Brito — and “well over 7 million illegal aliens” — into the US, saying the move unleashed crime across the country.

“The results are all too predictable: cities overwhelmed, public services crushed, and communities shattered by the criminality of some illegal aliens,” the Judiciary report states. “Although the Biden-Harris Administration claims that illegal aliens are vetted before being released into the United States, the reality is much more disturbing.”

When the 59-year-old Harris was serving as California’s junior senator, she also supported left-wing immigration policy stances — including the decriminalization of illegal border crossings — but has since walked those positions back since replacing Biden, 81, at the top of the 2024 Democratic ticket.

When Brito was released from detention on the US border, he was given instructions warning him not to “associate with known gang members, criminal associates, or be associated with any such activity” and not to “commit any crimes.”

Soon after, he allegedly helped savagely beat the two cops alongside at least two other migrants tied to the ruthless Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang.

He and his six alleged accomplices were released from custody shortly after the violent caught-on-camera incident. Then, after public outcry, he was ordered held on $15,000 cash or $50,000 bond — when it surfaced he had allegedly sparked the attack while having two pending misdemeanor theft cases.

Brito was eventually again freed in February when the Rev. Juan Ruiz, the activist minister of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, put up the $15,000 for his release.

“Our church is basically a sanctuary,” Ruiz told The Post at the time. “We assume that people are innocent until they are proven otherwise.”

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