THAT’S A RAIL BAD DUDE
Cops have again arrested accused serial subway saboteur Isaiah Thompson — this time for viciously shoving a woman head-first into a train in Brooklyn, police said.
Authorities believe Thompson — who became notorious for allegedly creating more than 700 subway delays by sneaking into conductors’ cabs and yanking the emergency brake — threw a woman into a stationary train at the DeKalb Avenue B/Q station in Fort Greene at about 7:20 p.m. Wednesday.
Video of the assault shows Thompson jumping up and down screaming, “What!” before eventually turning his rage onto a random female commuter and pushing the unsuspecting woman with both hands, sending her careening into the waiting train.
An FDNY spokesperson said the department received a call for an “EDP” — an emotionally disturbed person — at the station, but by the time authorities arrived, the crowd had dispersed.
The extent of the woman’s injuries was unclear.
Thompson was taken into custody at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, cops said.
“Isaiah Thompson, a . . . transit recidivist offender is in custody and charges pending in connection with the incident that occurred yesterday, Oct 23, approx 7:20pm at the DeKalb Ave @NYCTSubway station,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea tweeted Thursday.
The attack comes just five months after Thompson was collared for allegedly wreaking havoc on the rails.
He previously told police he likes to “create mayhem” on the trains — mostly in the form of subway-surfing and turnstilejumping — but his alleged involvement in Wednesday’s attack isn’t his first violent subway altercation.
Last November, Thompson allegedly grabbed a woman on the platform of the Halsey Street J station and tried to “throw” her, police said at the time.
Three months earlier, in August 2018, he got into a fight with a man and allegedly slashed him in the bicep with a knife at the Jay Street-MetroTech station, cops have said.
Thompson, 23, has at least 18 transit-related arrests and was indicted in May after he was arrested for first-degree criminal tampering, reckless endangerment and public lewdness.
In that case, Thompson exposed himself to a straphanger and pulled the emergency brake on a northbound 2 train near 14th Street, according to cops.
He was freed from jail after his mother posted $5,000 bail, but Thompson was busted again in August for subway surfing, and charged with reckless endangerment and criminal trespass. Prosecutors requested that bail be set at $2,000, but the judge ended up releasing him without bail.
The charges he’s facing for surfing are not severe enough for a judge to set bail under new bail reform guidelines set to take effect on Jan. 1.
Many judges have already started to implement the reforms in advance.
“Why are we surprised about this guy being out?” one angry police source told The Post Thursday.
“This is what the new system has allowed.”