NYPD cop needs 20 stitches after maniac bites ear, officials say
A crazed man with a history of assaulting NYC workers bit a police officer’s ear – leaving him in need of 20 stitches – and was released without bail, authorities said Saturday.
Donte Bynon, 32, was screaming obscenities as he randomly approached two NYPD officers who were headed into a subway station at West 137th and Broadway in Harlem, court documents show.
“I’ll f— you up!” he yelled, the records show.
“I am going to f— you up you f—— b—-!”
Bynon then walked toward the side of a parked NYPD patrol car, prompting the officer to get out of the vehicle to “calm him,” according to the records.
When officers tried to arrest Bynon, he bit the cop on the left ear, “causing a laceration, bruising and bleeding” in the Friday morning incident.
He needed 20 stitches to close the wound, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.
Defense attorney Paul Lee, said in court on Saturday his client had been on the way to his mother’s house and was “speaking to himself” while “acting under some stress” when he approached the officers.
“I just think there might be a different account of what went down,” said Lee, who said his client denies the allegations.
Prosecutors asked for $35,000 cash bail, but Judge Judy Kim granted Lee’s request for supervised release, freeing Bynon with an October return date.
Bynon has six prior arrests, three of them violent in nature, a police source said.
In 2015, Bynon was charged with resisting arrest and in 2016 he allegedly assaulted an MTA employee.
Then, on April 27, he allegedly assaulted a police officer, tackling the officer and striking the cop in the face numerous times, the source said.
