Lax checks and union apathy kept the accused jogger killer in NYC kids’ classrooms

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The case of Sayed Mohassib shows the cost of shuffling problem workers around. And in public schools, the risks fall on children.

In September and October, 10 adults at Brooklyn’s PS 200 warned about paraprofessional Sayed Mohassib’s erratic behavior.

They flagged his blank stares, the gun charm he wore around his neck and disturbing social-media posts of his chest tattoo naming, among other figures, Allah and the antichrist.

Each time, The Post reported, school administrators and union officials brushed off the complaining colleagues, telling some to stop being “racist.”

On Tuesday, a Brooklyn grand jury indicted Mohassib on a second-degree murder charge in the random killing of jogger Katie Suarez at the Shore Parkway Greenway.

Every parent in the city should be asking: If this is who DOE lets sit beside special-needs kids all day, who else is in the classroom?

Mohassib’s colleagues weren’t the first to see trouble: NYPD and the US Marines spotted it years earlier.

In 2022, Mohassib left his hourly support job at the DOE to join the NYPD.

After just six weeks he left the force for the Marines — which quickly discharged him for being psychologically unfit.

A disheveled Mohassib sought NYPD reinstatement, but cops rejected him — and sent him to Bellevue Hospital.

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