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Shocking video captured the moment a Brooklyn school bus aide was sucker-punched as she was walking down a street — knocking out her teeth and leaving her with a broken jaw that had to be wired shut. Dulche Pichardo, 57, said she was commuting home from work at about 5 p.m. Tuesday when a stranger took a swing at her on the sidewalk of Grand Avenue near Dean Street in Crown Heights. “He just punched me on the right side here, very strong,” Pichardo told PIX11, adding that the brute never said a word. The disturbing surveillance footage shows her...

The failed politician who was arrested for allegedly sucker-punching a 23-year-old woman in Manhattan on Monday has a penchant for documenting his harassment of women on his multiple TikTok accounts. Skiboky Stora, 40, of East New York, was charged with assault Wednesday in connection with a random Monday attack on Halley Kate Mcgookin after she recounted the incident to her more than a million TikTok followers. Stora, an aspiring rapper who unsuccessfully ran for mayor, governor and City Council over the past three years, appears to maintain ten different TikTok accounts, which were viewed by The Post and document his...

Shocking video footage shows a Michigan cop punching a teenager in the face while booking him onto a suburban Detroit jail — then grabbing him by the hair and slamming his face into the floor. Warren police released the surveillance footage Tuesday while announcing that Officer Matthew Rodriguez, 48, had been suspended and charged with assault and willful neglect of duty, both misdemeanors. Police Commissioner William Dwyer called it “sad and upsetting to every member of this department.” “This is not what we do. This is not who we are,” he said, while praising two other officers for quickly reporting...

A prominent Alaska psychiatrist faces a criminal charge for allegedly punching a man in the face for not wearing a face mask in a Juneau Fred Meyer earlier this month. Joshua Sonkiss, 49, was charged with a single count of misdemeanor assault for the incident. He appeared in court Wednesday. The 53-year-old victim, Bowen Dallmann, told police Sonkiss “punched him in the face” for “not wearing a mask” at the Juneau grocery store on June 1, according to a citation filed by Juneau municipal prosecutors. The document notes a witness backed up Dallmann’s account. “Dallmann wanted to pursue assault charges,”...

Full title: Man, 46, arrested for punching Andy Dick outside a New Orleans bar 'claims the controversial comedian grabbed his genitals before the attack' Dick claims he was knocked unconscious for 15 minutes after he fell to the ground following the attack.

New York Giants player Kam Moore cold-cocked a paramour and stepped on her neck so hard it left bruises during a love-triangle brawl outside his home on Thursday that led to his arrest and suspension, according to the team and law-enforcement authorities. “New York Giants safety Kamrin Moore was arrested over the weekend in Linden, New Jersey, for an alleged domestic violence-related incident. Moore has been suspended by the team pending further investigation,” the Giants tweeted Monday. The victim, identified in a criminal complaint as “H.P.,” had been seeing the grid-ironer since January and decided to drop by his New...

There’s an arrest recorded for him on my local PD’s website. The charge was “assault on a child under 12.”

Full Title: 'Punching Nazis should not be a crime': Middle School teacher charged with assaulting Californian white nationalist calls on a judge to throw out her case' A middle school teacher filmed punching a white nationalist during a demonstration has called on all charges against her to be dropped as 'standing up to Nazism is not a crime'.

A Donald Trump fan who was filmed punching and kicking a protester at a rally in Arizona has been charged with assault. Tony Pettway, 32, who is African American, was caught on camera attacking white demonstrator Bryan Sanders as he was being escorted out of the Republican event in Tuscon on Saturday.

Authorities in North Carolina say there isn't enough evidence to press charges against Donald Trump for his behavior in connection with a violent altercation at one of his rallies last week. In a statement issued Monday night, the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said legal counsel advised and Sheriff Earl "Moose" Butler agreed that the evidence doesn't meet the requisites of North Carolina law to support a conviction for inciting a riot. The sheriff's office said while other aspects of its investigation are continuing, the investigation related to Trump and his campaign is over and no charges are anticipated. An initial...

A North Carolina sheriff's office is investigating whether Republican front-runner Donald Trump's actions at a Fayetteville, N.C., rally last week "rose to the level of inciting a riot," according to a statement from the department's lawyer. "We are continuing to look at the totality of these circumstances . . . including the potential of whether there was conduct on the part of Mr. Trump or the Trump campaign which rose to the level of inciting a riot," said the statement from Cumberland Sheriff's Office attorney Ronnie Mitchell. An associate in Mitchell's office read the statement aloud to a Washington Post...

St. Louis, MO (KPLR) A toy at a Kentucky hardware store invites customers to duke it out with president Barack Obama. It’s called the Obama Bop. Some customers are fighting mad because of the bruised face on the toy and taking their business elsewhere. The owners say if they had a Romney version of the toy they would sell that as well. The punching bag costs $20.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Louisville man faces charges after police said he beat two young children with his fists. According to the arrest report, when an officer arrived at the scene, Michael Proffitt was being restrained by bystanders. Witnesses told police Proffitt tried to grab a 3-year-old out of a stroller and punch the child in the face and head, according to the report. Witnesses said Proffitt also punched a 3-month-old baby being carried by its mother in a front baby carrier, according to the report. Police said Proffitt’s actions put both children in a great deal of danger of...

This is the moment a white American police officer punches a teenage black girl in the face after a dispute about how she and her friend crossed the road. Video footage of Officer Ian Walsh lashing out at the 17-year-old in Seattle has shocked the U.S. The teenager reels backwards in shock from the blow before clutching her face while a bystander can be heard asking: ‘Are you serious?’ Police arrested the girl, Angel Rosenthal, and her friend, 19-year-old Marilyn Ellen Levias, both of whom have criminal records. Seattle Police chiefs have launched an investigation into the alleged assault after...

TAMPA, Fla. -- A Lakeland man has been arrested after he punched a police horse in the rear end, police said. A Tampa Police Department report said Carl Coward, 24, balled his fist and punched the horse in the right rear hip area as the officer and horse were clearing an area in Ybor City at 3:15 a.m. Sunday. A jail official said Coward was charged with offenses against police animals and has been released from jail on $500 bond. It was not immediately known if he had an attorney.

New details of Saddam capture Pulled from spider hole, Saddam asks: "America, why?" Thursday, August 5, 2004 Posted: 1:46 AM EDT (0546 GMT) Saddam Hussein after his capture (CNN) -- After an extensive search of an Iraqi farm on December last year, U.S. Special Forces and a translator named Samir brushed aside leaves and dirt from one area of the farm, uncovering the spider hole where Saddam Hussein was hiding. "I grabbed him," Samir told CNN in a recent interview. "I was like I am not going to let him go." "I told him that if you're a real...

PLEASANT DALE, Neb. - A man accused of trying to steal anhydrous ammonia has been arrested for hitting a police dog. Seward County Sheriff Joe Yocum said deputies were staking out the Pleasant Dale Co-op tank Sunday morning after the manager reported that anhydrous tanks used for field work had been tampered with the week before. A 39-year-old Lincoln man was seen climbing one of the tanks and opening a valve to place the chemical in a portable tank he had brought to the scene. Deputy Brody Duncan identified himself and called for the man to climb down and to...