Brick-wielding maniac who attacked decorated Delta Force vet appears in court covered in bruises

The unhinged vagrant who attacked a decorated Delta Force vet with a ceramic successful a shocking broad-daylight onslaught successful the East Village is present locked up connected $25,000 bail.

James Lawson, 44, who already had 5 busts and an unfastened lawsuit connected his rap sheet, appeared with his look covered successful bruises arsenic helium was arraigned Monday nighttime and shipped disconnected to Rikers Island successful the Sunday greeting onslaught connected vet Mark Antal.

Antal, 54, was waiting for his daughters extracurricular a pilates workplace adjacent his Manhattan location erstwhile Lawson allegedly ordered him to get disconnected “his street” soon earlier 11:30 am, according to constabulary and sources.

Lawson allegedly lunged astatine Antal and the 2 got into a scuffle, with the vagrant past picking up a ceramic and slamming the unfortunate successful the caput — with Antal past wrestling his attacker to the crushed contempt being dazed and injured.

Antal suffered superior caput injuries and is inactive recovering.

“We are grateful to the swift enactment of the NYPD and the prosecutor’s office,” his wife, Christine, told The Post connected Tuesday. “Mark and the children are going arsenic good arsenic to beryllium expected and we are focusing connected getting them support.”

Mark Antal’s subject vocation included 12 years with the US Army’s 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta earlier helium retired from progressive work successful 2015.

The mates went connected to recovered Task Force Antal, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to victims successful immoderate of the world’s astir troubled warfare zones.

Lawson’s erstwhile apprehension came aft helium was accused of smashing a solid astatine a barroom connected Avenue B and reaching into a car to snatch a victim’s telephone successful abstracted incidents connected April 9.

He was arraigned 2 days aboriginal and released without bail. The charges lodged against him successful those cases — petty larceny and possession of stolen spot — are not eligible for bail nether the state’s lenient 2019 transgression justness reforms.