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A New York County public defender who was caught brazenly tearing down posters of hostages missing in the Israel-Hamas war has resigned from her position, a rep said Tuesday. 

Victoria Ruiz, 36, decided to leave the New York County Defender Services after she was captured in a viral video last week ripping down one of the many posters plastered across the Big Apple since the terrorist organization attacked Israel on Oct. 7, a rep for the Defender Services told The Post. 

The New York County public defender was identified as the person tearing down the posters in the video by nonprofit watchdog StopAntisemitism. 

In addition to her job defending financially strapped Manhattan suspects, the controversial lawyer fronts The Downtown Boys, a five-piece punk outfit with a horn section that Rolling Stone once called “America’s most exciting punk band.”

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