Alvin Bragg's office was shot over its choice to free the 16-year-old, who hasn't been named, over a mugging on Madison Avenue last Wednesday - only for the same suspect to supposedly punch a cop 20 times in a Harlem subway station three days later.
Former prosecutor turned defense lawyer Mark Bederow claimed that the DA bungled the case, which he explained Fox News, definitely falls under "extraordinary circumstances."
"The DA clearly knew that they were prosecuting the same offender for a violent robbery," he explained to the news outlet. "If that is not an extraordinary circumstance, what is? Why ignore the violent robbery arrest if violence against police officers is unacceptable? This isn't accountability. This is lunacy."
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Bederow spoke in response to Bragg spokesperson Emily Tuttle's assertion that they'd made the right move with freeing the young offender - and letting him walk free again after the cop attack.
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The youngster seemed in a Manhattan court Tuesday and even questioned if he could press charges of his own - yet refused to say who he wished to prosecute.
"Our system must respond to children as children and intensive community monitoring was the appropriate pre-trial determination for a fifteen-year-old child with no previous arrests," she announced.
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"Violence against our police officers is unacceptable and given his age at the time of arrest, we consented to send his second case to Family Court as soon as possible, where he would receive the age-appropriate interventions and supports he needs while being held accountable," Tuttle continued.
Yet her words cut little ice with other criminal justice figures.
Police Benevolent Association leader Patrick Lynch seemed to throw his hands up over system failure.
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"We're debating about what court it should go to, but the reality is that it doesn't matter at this point — they're releasing everyone. The criminal justice system is no longer set up to protect the public from dangerous criminals. It's set up to fail."
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"The politicians need to wake up and hold criminals accountable," Detectives Endowment Association president Paul DiGiacomo announced. "They created an environment where there are no consequences for committing crime. What do they expect."
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Mayor Eric Adams was further appalled by the boy's repeated second chances and stated his treatment by the judicial system was an example of why New York City has become a "laughingstock" in the eyes of the country over its treatment of offenders.
They spoke days after the boy was caught on a wild video repeatedly punching a cop who attempted arrest him over the weekend for turnstile jumping.
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