Politics injection

Flushing: I am not a fan of Johnny Damon but why did you think it necessary to mention that he supported Trump in 2016 (“ExYank Damon busted for DUI,” Feb. 20), who I’m also not a fan of? If Damon supported Hillary

Clinton, I don’t think you would have said anything about that — and why the gratuitous remark about retired baseball players being busted for DUI as if that’s the rule rather than the exception? Does that show how you truly feel about baseball players or athletes in general? Something you should think about. Bernard Caine

Police have arrested a woman accused of punching a 2-year-old boy in the head as she argued with the tot’s mother about social distancing on a Manhattan train, officials said.

Elizabeth Galarza, 56, was nabbed in Harlem early Friday for the Feb. 20 attack on a northbound C train coming into the 116th station, officials said.

Galarza (photo) was on the subway around 3 p.m. when a 21-year-old mom asked her to give her some space as they rode the train together, cops said.

“Please stay six seats away from my little baby,” the mom said, according to police.

Instead of complying, an irate Galarza stomped on the mother’s foot, punched the 2-year-old boy several times in the face, then ran off when the train entered the station.

“This is reality,” the boy’s shaken mother told the Daily News. “I’m trying to process the whole thing.”

The boy suffered bruises to his face and ear. Medics took him to Mount Sinai

Morningside for treatment.

Cops charged Galarza with assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child. Her arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was pending Friday.

The boy’s mother said she wished the MTA and city officials would take more seriously reports of assaults and murders on the subways — and that she hopes officials act on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s call for 1,000 more officers in the system.

“That’s what I’m hoping — but honestly, I don’t see a change. Nothing’s being done,” the mom said. “I was really scared.”

“It’s crazy,” she said. “They’re still not taking it seriously. I hope they do one day.”