Frank Fernandez, 64, allegedly slashed a 63-year-old volunteer on the arm inside of St. Catherine of Siena church on the Upper East Side, according to the NYPD. Matthew McDermott

In a miscarriage of justice that’s only likely to become more typical in the Mamdani era, Judge Ariel Chesler rejected Manhattan prosecutors’ request for bail to instead release a vagrant with 20 priors who’d allegedly just slashed a church worker.

Told by a volunteer janitor he couldn’t use the bathroom at the Church of St. Catherine of Siena, Frank Fernandez reportedly slashed him in the arm with a boxcutter; the homeless man is a known troublemaker who haunts the area around the church.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office requested $30,000 cash bail or $90,000 bond; the judge instead gave Fernandez

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