A salivating sicko was busted last week in a racially-motivated spitting spree that targeted four white women in Williamsburg, Brooklyn \u2014 but walked free a day later, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
Anthony Caines, who is black, was arrested Nov. 13 after his repulsive two-day spitfest, but was sprung on Nov. 14 after pleading not guilty on charges including aggravated harassment based on race or religion, according to court documents obtained by The Post.<\/p>\n
Caines, 45, whose rap sheet include arrests for domestic violence and contempt of court, was granted supervised release, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Anthony Caines was released with an ankle monitor after his alleged racially-motivated spitting spree that targeted four white women in Williamsburg. Anthony Caines\/Facebook<\/p>\n
\u201cI just felt so violated,\u201d said one of Caines\u2019 alleged victims, who asked not to be named. \u201cIn my face, of all places. It was crazy, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n
The victim, a college student, was stunned when she was attacked outside 285 Broadway at 10:05 a.m. on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n
Charging documents cite three similar incidents \u2014 all unfolding in Williamsburg on Nov. 11 and Nov. 12 \u2014 where Caines silently spit directly into the faces of the female strangers as they passed him on the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was completely caught off guard,\u201d the woman said. \u201cIt was in the morning, and I was half-asleep. He came up, spit on me, and kept going, and I thought, \u2018What just happened to me? Am I supposed to be okay with this and go about the rest of my day?’\u201d<\/p>\n
The second assault happened less than two hours later, at the corner of Bedford Avenue and Grand Street. A third attack unfolded at Marcy Avenue and South Fourth Street at 10:40 p.m.<\/p>\n
The fourth attack happened the next morning at 8 a.m. outside 186 Grand Street.<\/p>\n
Security cameras helped police locate Caines. Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office<\/p>\n
Caines said nothing before allegedly spitting on the women. Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office<\/p>\n
None of the incidents resulted in a felony charge, which would\u2019ve kept Caines in custody.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is what happens when Kathy Hochul\u2019s bail reform experiment and the religious experiments of the left let violent offenders walk free with no consequences,\u201d offered Councilman Robert Holden (D-30). \u201cUntil the State Legislature reverses these disastrous policies, New Yorkers, especially women, will continue to be victimized on our streets.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Brooklyn District Attorney\u2019s Office is looking to speak to any additional victims who\u2019ve yet to come forward. <\/p>\n
The Post was unable to track down Caines for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A salivating sicko was busted last week in a racially-motivated spitting spree that targeted four white women in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5357,98,2422,10685,57,9,56,63,65,64,58,1424,4903],"class_list":{"0":"post-48698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-attacks","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-greenpoint","11":"tag-hate-crimes","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-us-news","19":"tag-williamsburg","20":"tag-women"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}