Two men accused of beating a uniformed NYPD cop during a caught-on-camera subway scuffle in the Bronx were ordered held on $40,000 bail at their first court appearances on charges of assault and resisting arrest.
Marquise Webb and Brian Innocent, both from Westchester County, were nabbed at the 238th Street station after ganging up on Lt. Gypsy Pichardo, leaving the veteran cop with a battered face and eight stitches to his swollen left eye, court records show.
Both were arraigned Sunday night in Bronx Criminal Court — where a judge set a $40,000 cash bail or a $120,000 bond –and were being held at Rikers Island on Monday, records show.
Cops responded to the Kingsbridge subway station around 9:45 p.m. Saturday for reports of a fight involving a knife breaking out between two groups.
Officers confronted Webb and Innocent, who refused to cooperate, according to a criminal complaint filed by Bronx prosecutors.
At one point, the duo got back on the stopped train, where they “refused several commands to place their hands behind their backs,” the complaint states.
That’s when the pair unloaded on Pichardo, punching the cop in the face and head while he tried to fend off his attackers — with the brutal beating caught on video.
Another video shows the suspects running off as cops, including the battered lieutenant — a 16-year veteran of the force — chase them with what appear to be their Tasers drawn.
Webb and Innocent were eventually caught by pursuing officers, including Pichardo, who was transported to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was treated and listed in stable condition.
Webb, who is from Yonkers, and Innocent, of New Rochelle, were each charged with second- and third-degree assault, resisting arrest, harassment, obstructing governmental administration and second-degree harassment, according to the complaint.
Innocent was also charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon after police recovered a knife, a box cutter and a straight razor at the scene, according to law enforcement sources.
Law enforcement sources said the second group involved in the initial melee ran off before cops arrived.
Via NY POST