NYPD officer rips judge who freed attacker on bail after attacking another cop: 'Insane'
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A veteran NYPD officer is outraged that the man who nearly stabbed him to death in 2008 was freed without bail Sunday for an attack on another cop.
"I was in shock," said Queens Officer Demitrios Raptis, 42. "I didn’t even know he was out of jail. The guy hit him in the head with a safe and could have killed him."
Isus Thompson, 38, is accused of randomly assaulting Officer Kyo Sun Lee in the Bronx, approaching him from behind and smashing him over the head with a metal safe that was inside a backpack, according to prosecutors.
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