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Two brutes surrendered in the Upper West Side beatdown of an elderly man defending a pregnant woman on an MTA bus, but only after kin told them to do the right thing \u2014 and a judge then freed them, authorities and sources said Monday.<\/p>\n

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The pair were charged with felony assault, their first arrest, before being granted supervised release by Judge Jeffrey Gershuny \u2014 over prosecutors\u2019 request for $150,000 bail or $300,000 bond, the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear why the suspects, Jaiden Marrero, 24, and Donzell Mitchell, 19, were released without bail. The charge against them was bail-eligible.<\/p>\n

The Bronx men surrendered Thursday \u2013 thanks to one of their relatives who spotted them on a \u201cWanted\u201d flyer and told them to turn themselves in \u2013 nearly three weeks after the June 5 beating and stabbing of Robert Hunter, 73, according to authorities and law-enforcement sources. The alleged assaulters were arraigned and freed from court Friday.<\/p>\n

Hunter previously told The Post he felt compelled to say something on the evening-rush-hour M104 bus to help the pregnant woman when he spotted one of the assailants \u201csqueezing by\u201d her \u2013 \u201chitting the lady\u2019s stomach.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo all I said was, \u2018You know the lady\u2019s pregnant, show her some respect,\u2019 \u201d Hunter recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The intervention only made Hunter the target of the pusher and his pal, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pair pummeled Hunter in the head and body before putting him in a chokehold, making it difficult for him to breathe, according to a criminal complaint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Then one of the creeps snarled, \u201cNow you\u2019re getting poked,\u201d before they brandished a knife and stabbed him in the left shoulder, according to cops and the court document.<\/p>\n

The senior was taken by EMS to Mount Sinai Morningside hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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He downplayed his injuries, saying the attack left him with just three stitches and no black eye.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The senior said he knows that what he did was right, even though he took a beating for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to look out \u2018cause if that was my daughter\u2026 [if] she was pregnant, and someone was pushing her around, and you know, there\u2019s no respect for women on the bus,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Marrero and Mitchell will reappear in court Aug. 19, the DA\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jaiden Marrero, 24, and Donzell Mitchell, 19, both Bronx residents with no previous arrests, turned themselves in Thursday \u2013 thanks to one of their relatives \u2013 nearly three weeks after the June 5 beatdown of Robert Hunter, 53, authorities and sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro"],"yoast_head":"\nBrutes surrender in NYC bus beatdown after kin tell them to do right thing - then get freed by judge: cops, sources - Metro Transit Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=3294\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brutes surrender in NYC bus beatdown after kin tell them to do right thing - 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