19 busts & free to prey
WON’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT CRIME
The 66-year-old Brooklyn man who was shoved onto subway tracks by a homeless stranger with a lengthy rap sheet slammed the fact his attacker was loose on the streets despite his lengthy criminal history.
“You don’t have 19 arrests . . . and you touch people, you push people, and you’re still in the streets!” said Pierre Augustin, who narrowly escaped death after being pushed from the platform at the President Street station in Crown Heights during the unprovoked Saturday afternoon attack.
Augustin fumed about why his accused attacker, Corey Walcott, was allowed to walk the streets despite being arrested at least 19 times in the last 12 years, according to police sources. “When they have a person many times like that . . . that’s a problem!” Augustin told The Post Wednesday, adding that he’s “going to war against the city for that” and might sue over the incident.
“I’m not going to the city to make money,” said Augustin, a father of two. “I want the city to change these things.”
Walcott, 44, has a long rap sheet that dates back to at least February 2011, when cops busted him for criminal possession of a weapon, police sources said. Over the next decade, his arrest raps included drug possession, assault, tampering with evidence and assault with intent to injure. Walcott was also arrested for forcible touching in July 2018 and October 2022, police said.
Augustin was also incensed by an apparent lack of police presence where the attack happened.
“This is ridiculous!” he said.
“I can tell you, the subway station — there is no one here to help you,” Augustin said. “When you get there, you are on your own. No police, nothing! In New York, they don’t protect you.”