Two years ago a stranger sucker punched me in the ribs as I walked to work, and I became another one of the countless New Yorkers doubly victimized by a violent criminal and a broken justice system.
The bruise went away in a few days. But the fear and feeling of helplessness — foreign to me as The Post’s police bureau chief — lingered.
Over the last few weeks, as I learned a lot more about the man who attacked me for no other reason than he could, I felt a new emotion: anger.
Cops have identified the suspect in my attack as Kamieo Caines, 36, a hulking homeless man with 20 prior arrests for violent crimes, including assault and weapon possession, according to police sources. He has spent time in prison and was on parole when he attacked me, I was told…