assaulting strangers "all over" the US city.The spate of mindless attacks come years after a similar craze, the New York Post reports.A retired police chief warned children and pensioners are being targeted amid concerns over a lack of police presence on the streets.The attacks are said to include a woman being roundhouse kicked by a stranger outside a train station and a brutally beaten Catholic deacon.Police footage showed Deacon Frederick Kurr, 74, being punched in the face while struggling to use a cash machine on the subway.“Don’t shout,” the attacker allegedly told the victim when he yelled for help. “I just felt like punching someone.”The deacon’s daughter, Heidi Kurr, said: “To get sucker punched for no reason at all … that’s sad.
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