The Manhattan DA’s office has dropped charges against Jhoan Boada after hew as found to be misidentified as a suspect in the Jan. 27 assault on two officers in Midtown.
Screenshot from video courtesy of NYPD
Prosecutors have dropped charges against one of the seven suspects connected to the brazen Midtown assault on two police officers in January that shocked and outraged the city.
Jhoan Boada, 17, who police said was homeless, had been picked up several days after the Jan. 27 attack outside a migrant shelter on West 42nd Street. According to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, a “thorough and diligent investigation” revealed that cops had charged the wrong man.
Boada was apparently misidentified as one of the participants in the brawl, in which a group of migrants assaulted two officers near the Candler Building during an arrest that grew out of hand.
According to police sources, the cops attempted to break up what they described as a disorderly group loitering. But after things turned violent, the cops wrestled with one man, trying to place him in cuffs. That’s when the rest of the group piled in — unleashing kicks and punches upon the members of service just outside of the shelter.
The cops were battered across their bodies and heads, and were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
Public outrage grew after the NYPD released footage of the assault, and the public learned that seven individuals arrested for the incident, including Boada, had been subsequently released from custody without bail at their arraignment. It prompted one high-ranking NYPD official, Chief of Patrol John Chell, to lament, “They should be sitting on Rikers right now.”
Anger grew further when Boada was photographed flipping off journalists attending his perp walk. The New York Post published the photo, and critics used the image as ammunition for a narrative of “migrant crime” being allegedly out of control.
The latter note wasn’t lost on one…
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