The straphanger menaced by a knife-wielding man hissing, “I’ll take your head off your f–king neck!” was a former prime NYPD official, based on ex-Large Apple Police Commissioner Invoice Bratton.
“I've a former assistant deputy commissioner who labored for me after I was most just lately commissioner,” mentioned Bratton — town’s prime cop within the Nineteen Nineties and once more from 2014 to 2016 — to WABC radio in an interview that aired Sunday.
“He was on a Midtown prepare earlier this week and had a person come as much as him, pull out a knife, and say, ‘I’m going to chop your head off.’
“Fortuitously, they’re going to make an arrest,” Bratton mentioned.
On Wednesday, police launched surveillance video of the knife-wielding man who had allegedly threatened the previous assistant deputy NYPD commissioner.
The scary incident occurred about 3:30 p.m. Could 22 on a southbound No. 6 prepare on the East 77th Road and Lexington Avenue station on the Higher East Facet, cops mentioned.
The armed suspect adopted his 35-year-old sufferer right into a crowded subway automotive and have become irate because the prepare left the station, holding a switchblade in plain view, cops mentioned.
“I’m not driving this prepare pressed up towards this door,” the person screamed as he repeatedly flicked his blade out and in within the sufferer’s path. “I’ll take your head off your f–king neck!”
When the southbound prepare arrived on the 68th Road/Lexington Avenue subway station, the suspect fled, the NYPD mentioned.
The Publish — which confirmed Sunday that Bratton was referencing the identical incident — is withholding the id of the sufferer as a result of the previous official mentioned he fears for his security from the suspect.
The foul-mouthed suspect, Aaron Ramos, turned himself in to cops Thursday morning. Ramos, a 26-year-old Bronx resident, was charged with menacing, based on police.
Additionally throughout the interview that aired Sunday, Bratton fumed over Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg selecting not to prosecute subway turnstile jumpers as a part of a progressive agenda.
“There's the crux of the issue in New York Metropolis … with the Manhattan district legal professional nonetheless not desirous to deal with fare evasion as a major sufficient crime value prosecuting, significantly repeated fare evasion,” he advised “The Cats Roundtable” radio host John Catsimatidis.
“What's lacking in New York Metropolis in the mean time is a willingness to punish individuals who regularly break the regulation,” Bratton mentioned — citing a Publish story on a lady who dubbed herself a “skilled booster” and was arrested Wednesday for allegedly robbing the identical Manhattan drug retailer 10 instances.
Bratton referred to as on Mayor Eric Adams to “public disgrace” native prosecutors in the event that they refuse to play an element in finishing up the previous NYPD captain’s tough-on-crime agenda.
“On the district attorneys, that is the place Mayor Adams principally brings them in and reads them the riot act,” Bratton mentioned, claiming that Hizzoner is “making an attempt to carry up New York Metropolis by himself.
“He’s not being helped by the legislature in Albany, by the Metropolis Council or these district attorneys,” Bratton mentioned. “Get these DAs right into a room and get them on board or publicly disgrace them for his or her failure to assist him and the NYPD.”
Further reporting by Tina Moore
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