Exclusive | DA Bragg drops case against Chinatown landlord who beat homeless man after the vagrant attacked him

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has dropped the assault charges against a Chinatown landlord who beat a homeless man after the vagrant attacked him with a weapon — and now the landlord says Bragg should never have brought the case against him in the first place.Brian Chin, a 32-year-old graduate psychology student and teaching fellow at Harvard, pummeled the still-unidentified homeless man in late August when the man went after him with a nail-studded piece of wood.

Bragg’s office initially hit the married dad with felony assault charges but dropped the case last week —taking Chin out of the legal line of fire, but leaving him irate that he had to deal with the court proceedings to begin with.“I am more angry than relieved because this is something that never should have happened,” Chin told The Post.“I was treated like a violent perpetrator in the eyes of the law, and it has been five months of an unending, waking nightmare … I woke up every day thinking that I would spend years in jail when I never committed a crime.”“This was a case that, from the very beginning, never should have been brought,” Chin said, adding that he had to resign from his teaching position because he could no longer pass a background check.

“What was this for? It upended my life, everything I spent decades working for.”Chin’s troubles began after he spotted the vagrant lying on the ground outside the subway station at Chrystie and Grand Streets in Manhattan around 8:30 p.m.on Aug.

24.Chin allegedly slipped on black gloves and kicked the unidentified man three times, according to a criminal complaint.The vagrant woke up, but he and Chin went their separate ways after the encounter.

But they both came back a few minutes later, with Chin saying he returned because he was haunted by the horrific slaying of his renter, Christina Yuna Lee, two years ago.“Especially after the murder, if someone is acting violent, I just like to stand by the front door, just ...