Random ‘sucker-punch’ assaults leave frightened NYC residents on edge

[Sugar Cookie]

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.

One poster to the Upper West Side Together Facebook group put members on high alert two weeks ago after two friends walking past the subway station exit on Central Park West and 87th Street encountered a man dressed in black coming out of the subway.

He tried “tried to sucker punch” the girl, whose boyfriend then chased him off.

“My friend was screaming, ran to a building on CPW (Central Park West) where doorman called police,” the poster explained.

An Upper West Side man responded, “This is happening all over. I was sucker punched by a disturbed man in Chelsea” — and left with two black eyes.

On Monday a stranger punched a 67-year-old man in the face on a Queens subway platform in an apparent unprovoked attack, police said.

The suspect walked up to the man shortly before 10 a.m. as he waited for a Manhattan-bound 7 train at the Court Square station.

“These incidents aren’t happening in front of officers. They are happening due to opportunists taking advantage of the anti-police, anti-accountability era,” NYPD Sgt. Joseph Imperatrice, the founder of Blue Lives Matter NYC and a 15-year-veteran, told The Post.

“It is a dangerous time to be out and about strolling in New York City. The combination of criminals and mentally ill individuals roaming the streets equals disaster waiting to happen.

“The city needs to get back to old-school policing … high visibility foot posts and patrol,” he added.

Random ‘sucker-punch’ assaults leave frightened NYC residents on edge

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…

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[62julietandvoid]

Need to start a club where members watch out for this asshattery and respond to it with a beatdown of their own.

 

[Symmachus]

There was a rumor about a serial puncher on my college campus a few years back, particularly during the early-to-mid parts of my tenure. I remember it being a thing on campus that somebody was doing that, and that I suppose he was targeting women. One rumor I heard, from the woman I was seeing at the time, was that the police had a suspect, but he had graduated and moved away before anyone could do much. My roommate facetiously said that he did it, but then said, "I'm kidding" when I didn't give him the expected response. I don't think he was the guy; he just had a warped sense of humor sometimes.

For what it's worth, I never knew who, specifically, was getting punched; I never heard any personal testimonies, simply that there was a bogeyman.

Weird stuff.

 

[Sejanus]

Gutless cowards.
They know they would get their asses handed to them in a non chickenshit fight.