'This is lunacy!' Woke Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is blasted for DEFENDING decision to free boy, 16, filmed beating cop at Harlem subway station just two days after he was charged with mugging a stranger

• The 16-year-old boy was arraigned on second-degree assault charges on a police officer on Wednesday
• The Manhattan prosecutor recommended be released without bail and his case be transferred to juvenile court 
• The young man will no longer be prosecuted by the DA and he will not see prison time
• The teen was arrested in Brooklyn in April with a .40 handgun and a crossbow
• He was arrested days before the fight with the officer on robbery charges
• Alvin Bragg's office was blasted over its decision 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 allegedly punch a cop 20 times in a Harlem subway station three days later. 

  Former prosecutor turned defense lawyer Mark Bederow, argued that the DA bungled the case which he told Fox News, definitely falls under 'extraordinary circumstances.'

  'The DA clearly knew that they were prosecuting the same offender for a violent robbery,' he told the news outlet. 'If that is not an extraordinary circumstance, what is? If violence against police officers is unacceptable, why ignore the violent robbery arrest. This isn't accountability. This is lunacy.'

  Bederow spoke in response to Bragg spokesperson Emily Tuttle's insistence that they'd made the right move with freeing the young offender - and letting him walk free again after the cop attack.

• The youngster appeared in a Manhattan court Tuesday, and even asked if he could press charges of his own - but declined 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 said.