New York Post

Granny-Shover’s Rap Sheet Should Shame NY’s Pols

- John F. Rossano Oceanside Kathy Masterson Newark, Del. Kim Cody, Queens

Career criminal Rashid Brimmage was charged with assaulting a 92year-old woman on the street. This is absolutely disgusting (“Menace to society,” June 16).

He’s being held on $50,000 bail, which is nothing. It should be much higher.

His defense attorney, Henna Khan, claimed that the shove was not a “deliberate act of violence.” Tell me, Henna, did you see that surveillan­ce footage? It doesn’t lie.

If Geraldine, the woman he assaulted, had hit her head any harder on that hydrant, she could have died.

Brimmage should be behind bars or in a mental program. If he’s let go, he’ll commit another crime. How high are they going to let his arrest numbers rise? Rob Johann, Queens

Regarding the arrest of Brimmage, who was charged with the attack of a 92-year-old woman on a Manhattan sidewalk: He has been arrested 103 times since 2005.

Whatever happened to three strikes and you’re out? This person, if I can call him that, is a thug and deserves to be put away for life. He should not be allowed on any street in America without a guardian.

Let me get this straight: Brimmage had been arrested 102 times for petty crimes and sexual offenses prior to his alleged shoving a 92-yearold woman into a fire hydrant, and he wasn’t considered a threat to civil society? OK. Gotcha!

Judges are releasing criminals at record rates, with little pushback. Elected officials, from the governor to the community organizers, are complicit in all crimes committed from the time the no-bail law went into effect.

What is the magic number that guarantees a solid conviction and keeps criminals off the streets? How do politician­s and judges sleep at night knowing they are failing the law-abiding citizens of New York? Theresa O’Brien Melville

I watched the video in horror as a man punched a 92-year-old woman in the head as she pushed her small shopping cart down the street.

She is knocked to the ground and the man continues to walk on, seemingly oblivious to the harm he caused this poor woman. Where is the outrage? Where are the protesters demanding justice?

Ah, come on. Rashid Brimmage is only a convicted sex offender with a mere 102 prior arrests! Give him another chance.

After all, he is clearly the victim of a racist society, right? And that 92year-old lady needs to check her “white privilege” of expecting to be able to walk down the street safely and not become the latest victim of the popular “knockdown game.”

We must all remember that we are now living in “New Woke City.” Dennis Middlebroo­ks Brooklyn

So it only took 103 arrests and a highly publicized, caught-on-tape assault of a 92-year-old woman for a judge to hold a career criminal and sex offender in jail on a measly $50,000 bail.

This is the guy Gov. Cuomo was talking about when he implemente­d those progressiv­e bail reforms. Wow. Oh, and yes, defund the police. Kenny Knapp The Bronx

For all the naysayers who complained that associate mayor Chirlane McCray’s $1 billion ThriveNYC program has failed to do anyone any good, the proof is Rashid Brimmage.

He seems schizophre­nic, has been arrested over 100 times and was still on free to assault a 92-year-old female.

Finally, he is now being held on $50,000 bail. Instead of taking $1 billion from the Police Department, the city should take it back from McCray’s total failure of a program.

Consequenc­es are never a thought when it comes to liberal ideals.

So “bail reform” has no consequenc­es, unless you’re a 92-year-old woman who allegedly takes a knockout punch from a thug who had been arrested 102 times. Vincent Conti Staten Island

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