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No-bail ‘bashings’

A vagrant with a lengthy rap sheet was arrested for allegedly beating a man in Harlem last year but was dumped back on the street due to bail reform — leaving him free to pummel two women in separate Upper West Side attacks last week, police sources said.

Then, adding insult to the grievous injuries, he was freed yet again.

Darrell Johnson, 23, allegedly beat the first of his two female victims so brutally that she suffered a “disfiguring laceration” to her face, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Monday.

Last year, Johnson — who sources say has more than a dozen arrests dating to 2014 — was hit with assault and harassment charges in the man’s beatdown.

He punched the man “about the face with a closed fist multiple times” in a Harlem building on Aug. 3, 2020, a court complaint charges.

Johnson then allegedly “used his feet to kick and stomp” the man.

But a Manhattan judge had to release him without bail because none of the charges were eligible for bail under revamped state laws. Before the laws were changed, judges could use their discretion on setting bail.

With that case pending, Johnson was back on the street — where he allegedly approached a 50-year-old woman at Broadway and West 79th Street at around 9:20 a.m. on Thursday and assaulted her in a “violent, unprovoked” attack, sources said.

Just three minutes later, Johnson allegedly assaulted another woman a block away.

In that attack, court records allege that Johnson walked up to the 32-year-old victim on West 80th Street and began punching her in the face, causing “redness and swelling,” according to the complaint.

Both women were taken to St. Luke’s Hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.

In court on Friday, Manhattan prosecutors recommended that Johnson be released under supervised monitoring for the attacks on the women, a request the judge granted.

A representative for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said none of the charges were serious enough to allow the judge to order Johnson held on bail.

New York Defender Services, which represents Johnson, declined to comment on Monday.