Man Busted for Assault Set Free, Allegedly Beats Two Random NYC Women – Then Cut Loose Again

A homeless man charged with beating a guy last year was dumped back on the street thanks to so-called bail reform, only to allegedly pummel two women in Upper West Side attacks Thursday — and be freed again.

Darrell Johnson, 23, left one of his random female victims so brutally beaten that she suffered a “disfiguring laceration” to her face, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Monday.

Darrell Johnson

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

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But a Manhattan judge had to release him without bail because none of the charges were eligible for the restriction under revamped state laws. {snip}

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

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

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