He’s a terror on the streets and a nightmare behind bars.
Sundance Oliver, 30, a Brooklyn gangbanger locked up on murder charges for allegedly killing two people and wounding a third, has been just as violent at Rikers Island — attacking 48 officers and civilian employees at the jail complex, correction union officials told The Post.
Now, the union says it needs backup from the city after the latest pair of assaults on its officers.
“I’m traumatized,” one of the victims, a seven-year veteran of the department, told The Post. “I keep replaying this this scene, almost getting choked out and then seeing my partner getting beaten on.
“I don’t sleep. I fear for my safety,” she said. “These types of inmates, especially an inmate like Sundance, he needs to be on 24-hour lockdown. He needs to be isolated because staff is just going to continue getting hit. We already deal with the trauma of working in jail, because we are technically locked up like these guys. It’s worse that you come to work and you’re getting assaulted.”
However, “punitive segregation,” or solitary confinement, isn’t an option after Mayor Eric Adams last year signed an executive order banning it — leaving the union pleading for help.
Officials said 80 jail employees have been assaulted by various inmates so far this year.
“We are calling for the DOC to assign several members of our Strategic Response Team to provide security escorts within the facility for this dangerous inmate in order to keep our officers safe,” Benny Boscio, president of the city Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, said in a statement.
“Just in the span of one week two female correction officers and one male correction officer were assaulted in unprovoked attacks by one of the most violent criminals in our custody,” Boscio said.
“Since he entered Rikers in December of 2022 this inmate has gone on a rampage, assaulting 45 correction officers and three civilians.”
Oliver, an ex-con and reputed member of Brooklyn’s Loop Gang, a violent Bloods crew based at the Pink Houses in East New York, has more than 30 busts on his rap sheet — including sealed cases — on a slew of charges including murder, assault and robbery, records show.
Law enforcement sources said he has been running with street gangs since he was 12, and had become so notorious that cops called him “a one-man crime wave.”
In 2022, he was arrested and charged in a violent four-day crime spree that left a 17-year-old girl and a 21-year-old man dead — and a 96-year-old man wounded while sitting in a wheelchair, records show.
On Friday, he allegedly launched his latest attack behind bars.
The injured officer told The Post she and her partner were escorting Oliver from the showers when he turned on them, pulling back on the chain around his waist and using it like a weapon.
“He started fighting with me and my other female partner, he started tussling with us,” she said. “At one point he threw the waist chain around me and attempted to choke me out. He also had me in a bear hug so I couldn’t life my hands to do anything.
“He threw me against the wall and then he threw me against the chairs,” she said.
The officer, who said she is 5 feet tall and weighs about 150 pounds, said the 6-foot, 190-pound Oliver then turned his rage on her partner.
“He grabbed her by the hair, started punching her. He threw her to the wall, picked her up, punched her again, grabbed her by the hair. He punched her multiple times and then he threw her into the chairs.”
She said Oliver was finally subdued after backup arrived and took him down.
But the injured officer, who remains haunted by the attack, said it’s still not over for her.
“Ya’ll don’t work in the jail. Ya’ll don’t understand,” she said. “I completely shut my family out since I’ve been assaulted, because I feel if you’re not on the job you don’t understand.”
