Exclusive | NYC madman arrested twice for attacking 4 women over 2-day period walks free both times: Most insane story ever

The hits just keep coming.A madman’s five-minute reign of terror in lower Manhattan was just the warmup act for a revolving-door justice system that let him right back out to strike again, a terrified victim told The Post.The scrambled stranger punched a 28-year-old woman on Fulton Street near Water Street in lower Manhattan last month, then attacked two other women within five minutes before he was arrested, released and then allegedly went on to sock an 85-year-old man in the face the next day, the first victim told The Post.  “This is the most insane story ever,” said the woman, who works in finance and asked to remain anonymous out of fear for her safety.“I’m walking and I’m on my phone and then all of a sudden I hear this guy shout ‘Watch out!’”She looked up in time to see the gaunt-looking, bald repeat-offender — later identified as Christopher Tarrant — about to punch her in the face.

She dodged his fist, but it landed like a ton of bricks on her shoulder instead.She called cops while following Tarrant, and allegedly saw him throw a glass bottle at an older woman and then punch another woman walking near the South Street Seaport, she said.Police arrested Tarrant, but to her shock, the 24-year-old was charged only with misdemeanor assault for allegedly slugging her, she said.The two other women didn’t stick around to file complaints, but she gave police the phone number of the other woman he struck.

Police officers can’t take a crime complaint without a victim, an NYPD spokesman said.A Manhattan judge released Tarrant the next day because the misdemeanor charge wasn’t bail eligible under woke, Democrat-pushed 2019 reform laws, court records show.A day later, he found another random victim in Hell’s Kitchen and allegedly kicked the elderly man in the legs until he fell, then punched him twice in the face, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.This time, Tarrant was hit with a felony assault charge because his...