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(New York, NY) — The man accused of sucker-punching eight women in Manhattan is behind bars for now, after bail was set Wednesday. Daquan Armstead told police he preferred to attack women because, in his words, “they don’t test you like men do. You have to check women sometimes.” Armstead was released without bail after assaulting a woman in 2021; the same thing happened this February after his first sucker-punch attack. Bail this time has been set at 20-thousand dollars. Prosecutors say Armstead would ask victims, including an administrator at NYU for one dollar. When they said no, he’d hit them.
Mayor Adams says he continues to be concerned about the random attacks on women. A number of women have come forward to report they were sucker-punched at random, walking the streets in Manhattan in late March. Adams says the random acts of violence are traumatizing New Yorkers and they have to be stopped.
