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Tonight terrifying sucker punch attacks⁽¹⁾ putting a spotlight on crime in New York and in cities across the country.
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"What would make someone want to do that?" - "I mean it's just very disgusting and just disappointing to see that happening all over a city."
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This assault from over the weekend in a Brooklyn shopping center. - That guy was caught unaware, he didn't know that was coming, and I've seen people done that over and over, time and again, and it's unconscionable what they're doing.
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The victim is expected to recover as the search continues for the attacker, it's eerily similar to another sucker punch attack, just days earlier outside a bronx restaurant, prosecutors now accusing Bui Van Phu of randomly attacking Jesus Cortez.
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Outside that restaurant on August 12, surveillance video released by the NYPD shows Cortes being struck in the head, in an attack he did not appear to see coming.
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He was in perfect condition, he was about to come home, Phu was arrested and originally charged with attempted murder for that punch.
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But charges were lowered to assault and harassment, allowing food to be released on bail, the district attorney telling NBC New York the charges were downgraded, because the office quote pursued charges based on the investigation.
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This set off a firestorm on the issue of bail reform. - Do you have any comment or update about the convicted sex offender? and the bronx who attacked a man and then he was let go without any bail? - Yes that was a horrific situation on all fronts.
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In an unexpected move governor Kathy Hochul stepped in and ordered Phu to be arrested days later, saying she took the matter into her own hands.
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Because Phu was a repeat offender already on lifetime parole, Convicted of raping a 17 year old back in 1995. efforts to reach foo or his lawyer were unsuccessful, the victim's brother speaking about his condition.
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He's stable thank god, he's day to day, we simply ask god to help him, or the justice system to be hard handed against these people.
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Murder is down 10.5 percent in New York city this year, but the seven major crimes tracked by the NYPD are up 36 percent since last year, and critics have pointed to bail reform as a major factor in that jump.
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My brother is in this condition because of these criminals walking the street, earlier this month the NYPD saying nearly 25 percent of those arrested for burglary go on to commit another felony within 60 days.