Outrage as migrants who beat up cops in Times Square are all offered plea deals that would land some in jail for less than a year

Five of the seven migrants accused of assaulting two New York City Police Department officers in Times Square have been offered plea deals.

Ulises Bohorquez, Yohenry Brito, Edgarlis Vegas, Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, Wilson Juarez, Yorman Reveron and Kelvin Servita Arocha appeared in New York Supreme Criminal Court on Tuesday in front of Judge Laura Wood.

The Venezuelan migrants were charged with second-degree assault and the obstruction of a government admin following the attack on January 27 which was caught on video and all have pleaded not guilty.

The incident erupted when two officers attempted to disperse a group in front of 220 West 42nd Street. Lieutenant Ben Kurian and Officer Zunxu Tian are said to have suffered laceration, bruising and substantial shoulder pain.

Judge Wood laid into Brito, who was previously described as the ‘most culpable’ of the defendants, for being rearrested on petty larceny charges while on bail and warned he would ‘not see the light of day’ if he so much as jaywalks.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has offered plea deals to Bohorquez, Brito and Gomez-Izquiel for them to serve a year in prison in return to pleading guilty to second-degree assault.

Arocha and Juarez have been presented a deal where they serve six months in prison for pleading guilty to obstructing a government admin.

But Vegas and Reveron are yet to be offered any deals at this moment.

The defense attorneys have not agreed to the offers and Judge Wood ordered them to return to court on June 18 where a trial date will be set if no agreement is reached.

Judge Wood hit out at Brito during the hearing and threatened to throw him in jail if he puts another foot wrong while out on bail.

‘I am furious that Mr Brito was rearrested and charged with petty larceny while he was out on this case,’ she said.

‘I am very tempted right now to put you in jail. I am telling you right now, if I learn you are rearrested for anything at all between now and this case being finished, I will order a warrant and I will place bail so high you will not get out.

‘If you jaywalk, if you jump a turnstile, if you do anything at all and I have to issue a warrant, you will not see the light of day until this case is over.

‘Do I make myself perfectly clear?’

Brito replied ‘Yes’ after the judge’s harsh words were translated to him through a Spanish interpreter.

Prosecutor Kotin previously said Brito was seen on video refusing a police officer’s order to leave the sidewalk which sparked the brawl.

He was initially sent to Rikers Island but he was released after a church in Brooklyn managed to pay his $15,000 bond.

Kotin told the court Vegas was seen on surveillance footage wearing a burgundy jacket and kicking out at Kurian.

The prosecutor claimed she changed her story about the events multiple times and said, ‘she said she was trying to move other members of the group and fell backward.

‘However she changed her story again. She was kicking a different member of the group and may have accidently kicked the officer.’

He added Vegas told authorities she moved to the US from Venezuela around three months ago and had only been staying in her permanent residence for a short period.

Authorities were called to disperse a ‘disorderly group’ in front of 220 West 42 Street when suspect Brito, 24, ‘got confrontational with the officers’ and they attempted to arrest him, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.

‘As Kurian is holding Brito against the wall, groups of people are heard shouting in Spanish at the officer,’ he added.

‘That is when Brito attempted to escape from Kurian and with the assistance of Officer Zunxu Tian, the cops grabbed the migrant’s clothing as they tried to restrain him.’

Videos show the two officers and Brito falling to the ground and during the struggle, other suspects interfered by pulling, grabbing and kicking the cops.

As Brito attempts to wriggle away, the officers are holding on to his shirt that he eventually takes off.

‘Go arrest those guys,’ Kurian said as the crowd fled.

The case quickly drew international attention. It took days for police to indict the suspects in the case. Several were freed shortly after the attack on bail and some fled the area.

Brito, Gomes, Reveron and Arocha are all charged with two counts of second-degree assault and one count of second-degree obstructing governmental administration.

Police say neither Juarez nor Arocha ever hit the officers, but that Arocha kicked a police radio as Juarez watched from a distance before giving his jacket to Brito.

Gomez is accused of grabbing one officer and kicking the other one while Reveron allegedly grabbed, pulled and threw the two cops on the ground.

Juarez, is believed to have watched the brawl from a distance without participating.

He has been charged with tampering with physical evidence because he allegedly traded his jacket with a man who fled police following the confrontation, prosecutors said.