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Man accused of sucker punching victim into coma in NYC is rearrested after originally walking free without bail
Next Shark via Yahoo ^ | August 22, 2022 | Carl Samson

Posted on 08/22/2022 12:58:34 PM PDT by grundle

A man released without bail after allegedly fracturing another man’s skull in New York City has been taken back into custody, Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Friday.

Van Phu Bui, a 55-year-old convicted sex offender, was first arrested on Wednesday in connection with the unprovoked attack outside a Fordham Heights restaurant in the Bronx before 11 p.m. on Aug. 12. He was re-arrested on a parole violation on Friday.

Surveillance video shows a man approaching 52-year-old Jesus Cortes from behind and sucker punching him in the head. He says something to onlookers before apparently leaving the scene.

Cortes, a Mexican immigrant, suffered a fractured skull, a broken cheekbone and brain bleeding. He was knocked unconscious and eventually placed in a medically induced coma.

Bui was released without bail on Thursday after Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark downgraded his initial attempted murder charge to misdemeanor assault and harassment. The move quickly triggered a public outcry as Bui’s criminal history began to unravel.

Bui, a Vietnamese immigrant, turned out to be on lifetime parole for sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 1994. He is a registered Level 3 sex offender, the highest classification on the registry.

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TOPICS: Mexico; Miscellaneous; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bronx; darcelclark; defundthepolice; ericadams; fordhamheights; jesuscortes; kathyhochul; mexico; newyork; newyorkcity; vanphubui; vietnam
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1 posted on 08/22/2022 12:58:34 PM PDT by grundle
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He fractures a guy’s skull from behind, and they call it misdemeanor harassment?


2 posted on 08/22/2022 1:02:52 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: grundle

Van Phu Bui should have taken advantage of his original release to head for JFK and board the first plane for Hanoi.


3 posted on 08/22/2022 1:04:01 PM PDT by Rufii
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They should execute this waste of skin. If allowed to live his misbegotten life in prison it should be at hard labor. Make him earn his oxygen.


4 posted on 08/22/2022 1:08:04 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: grundle

Hochul could see the political damage this incident has inflicted. She should be asked if she would have ordered the arrest if no one cared the guy was released and the charge was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor.


5 posted on 08/22/2022 1:09:51 PM PDT by Ebenezer ("Be strong and of good courage.")
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To: grundle
Cortes, a Mexican immigrant....

That's all you need to know. Dollars to donuts attack was not unprovoked. Border jumpers have really outsized nasty attitudes.

Of course the media will make a saint out of him.

6 posted on 08/22/2022 1:10:39 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: Sans-Culotte

“They should execute this waste of skin”

Not in new york state.


7 posted on 08/22/2022 1:17:03 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: grundle
He is a registered Level 3 sex offender, the highest classification on the registry.

Why is this human excrement released from prison in the first place and what kind of idiot releases him without bail when a man in in a coma?

8 posted on 08/22/2022 1:17:15 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: grundle; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; ...

Watch the spin as the R gov of Texas is blamed for busing the victim to NYC — whether he did or not.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4086873/posts


9 posted on 08/22/2022 1:19:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: grundle

Hochul is one vile woman.


10 posted on 08/22/2022 1:28:47 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

SMH


11 posted on 08/22/2022 1:35:03 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Watch the spin as the R gov of Texas is blamed for busing the victim to NYC — whether he did or not.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4086873/posts

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The guy’s been on Lifetime parole ever since 1994 sex offence in the Bronx.

Where in world do you get bused to NY from TX from?

The link you provided doesn’t even mention busing from TX.


12 posted on 08/22/2022 1:41:27 PM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: grundle

Its election season for Kathy Hochul

She will get hammered on law-and-order by either Zeldin or Paladino


13 posted on 08/22/2022 1:44:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: grundle

New york must be a positively horrible place to live.


14 posted on 08/22/2022 1:47:14 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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New york must be a positively horrible place to live.

Judging by the net people outflows, I think the data supports you.

15 posted on 08/22/2022 1:49:01 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Rufii

This is what they do with his kind there.
16 posted on 08/22/2022 1:51:59 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: 4Runner

In my neck of the woods, the older legal immigrants (many of them business or farm owners) have had it right up to the eyeballs with the younger tatted up illegal gangsters giving everyone grief. They want the borders closed and the little shits deported by air, no parachutes.


17 posted on 08/22/2022 1:54:28 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: jacknhoo

I’m not sure why I need to point out the obvious — the SPIN (as in MEDIA SPIN) will be that the poor Mexican victim was sent to NYC RECENTLY by the governor of Texas.


18 posted on 08/22/2022 1:56:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Valpal1

well they are going to have to do it themselves.

I think there might be a use for all that illegal fentanyl. LOL


19 posted on 08/22/2022 1:56:33 PM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives. Leftists are genocidal. )
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To: Telepathic Intruder
He fractures a guy’s skull from behind, and they call it misdemeanor harassment?

And release him with an apology./S

20 posted on 08/22/2022 2:07:08 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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