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Barry Baldwin is charged with a string of assaults that some called related to the “Knockout game.”
A Brooklyn man charged with a string of assaults on women — including a 78-year-old — that some connected to the violent “knockout game” bizarrely claimed self-defense in all the attacks, according to court documents released Wednesday.
Barry Baldwin, 35, pleaded not guilty to six attacks last November and December in which he allegedly punched random passers-by, five of them Jewish females.
Though community leaders called the crimes part of social media-fueled game in which attackers are goaded by friends or share images of the violence online, there’s no mention of that in Baldwin’s statements.
He said he was acting in self-defense when confessing to detectives, records show, and strangely mentioned repeatedly that “not terrorism intent was done.”
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He described an alleged Dec. 7 assault on a 20-year-old as “a love tap” and said “he had to swat her off because she was too close to him.”
On the Dec. 27 attack on his final alleged victim, who was on her cell phone, he said: “I hit her on the head in self-defense because of the way she looked.” Excusing other incidents, he rambled, “because I was feeling ill” and “because of things that were happening around me.”
Most of the victims — whose ages range from 20 to 78-years-old — only saw the assailant for a brief moment and none was able to identify Baldwin in a lineup, court records show.
Baldwin, who’s out on bail, said nothing as he left Brooklyn Supreme Court wearing a red winter hat adorned with hearts.
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