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The victim, who asked to be identified only as Eric, told 11 News that he knew exactly what was happening and that he wasn't going to let himself become another victim of the knockout game. "The moment I got hit, that split second, I knew what was going on. I've heard the stories, and I wasn't going to let these kids get away," Eric said. "People who play the knockout game are cowards. There was 20 of them and two of us. The moment we chased them, they all went away," Eric said.

A 62-year-old man who was brutally attacked in Union Square last week died Monday. On Wednesday, a man shouting that he “hated white people” punched victim Jeffrey Babbitt — who is white — in the face, witnesses said, causing him to fall and strike his head on the ground. Lashawn Marten, 31, who is black, “made statements to the effect that I’m going to punch the first white man that I see,” said NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly. image Brooklyn resident Jeffrey Babbitt died at Bellevue Hospital after a seemingly unprovoked attack at Union Square. (Image: Handout via Newsday) After punching...