Random ‘sucker-punch’ assaults leave
frightened NYC residents on edge
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/18/2021 1:06:15 AM
An Upper West Side man is cold-cocked in Chelsea. An unhinged stranger throws a roundhouse at a woman outside a subway station on the Upper West Side. A Catholic deacon and another man are pummeled in separate smackdowns in the Bronx. It’s up for debate whether this spate of disturbing incidents is a return of the so-called knockout game, the sick spree of assaults that terrorized New Yorkers a few years ago, but it’s a still a gut-punch to frightened residents already on edge.(Snip) On Monday a stranger punched a 67-year-old man in the face on a Queens subway
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It's OK to mention "random attacks" in the news now since the victims are other than WHITE people, but it's not OK to say the attackers are bLACK because that would be White Privilege.