{"id":279566,"date":"2021-06-21T01:39:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T22:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/taser-wielding-washington-sq-park-suspect-released-without-bail\/"},"modified":"2021-06-21T01:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T22:39:36","slug":"taser-wielding-washington-sq-park-suspect-released-without-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/taser-wielding-washington-sq-park-suspect-released-without-bail\/","title":{"rendered":"#Taser-wielding Washington Sq. Park suspect released without bail"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Taser-wielding Washington Sq. Park suspect released without bail<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Taser- and knife-wielding madman who triggered a stampede in Washington Square Park over the weekend was cut loose without bail on Sunday \u2014 as his lawyer claimed he acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n

Jason McDermott, 42, was hauled before a judge in Manhattan Criminal Court on menacing, reckless endangerment and weapons charges following the mob scene at the Greenwich Village greenspace early Saturday morning that left a 43-year-old woman with injuries.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Taylor Brisco told Judge Abraham Clott that McDermott claimed to police, \u201cIt was self-defense. They were running at me. I have a knife on me for self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDermott allegedly brandished a Taser and knife during a squabble inside the park around 12:40 a.m. Saturday, sending the throng of revelers fleeing for safety and crushing one parkgoer in the process.<\/p>\n

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The scene where a woman was bleeding and a man was arrested near the arch in Washington Square Park.<\/figcaption>
Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But McDermott\u2019s lawyer claimed he was the one who was being victimized.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the subject of an attack,\u201d his lawyer, Damjan Panovski, reiterated in court. \u201cHe has no criminal record whatsoever, no contact with the criminal justice system.\u201d<\/p>\n

He called the incident \u201cpurely self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jason McDermott\u2019s lawyer claimed he acted in self-defense.<\/figcaption>
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Prosecutors did not ask for bail in McDermott\u2019s case \u2014 but requested supvervised release, which the judge granted.<\/p>\n

Clott also said the case suggests McDermott \u201chas trouble working with the ordinary standards of legal behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

A surly McDermott refused to comment as he left court.<\/p>\n

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Jason McDermott is charged with menacing, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon after causing a riot in Washington Square Park.<\/figcaption>
Steven Hirsch<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The woman who was hurt was taken to Bellevue Hospital with cuts, scrapes and bruises. She was treated and later released.<\/p>\n

The chaotic scene came amid yet another night of alcohol- and drug-fueled partying at the historic park \u2014 despite continuous complaints from locals and merchants in the area and a rarely enforced midnight curfew.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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