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Jets fan in brawl visits lawyer; has ‘no history of violence’

Jets fan Kurt Paschke, who turned a female Patriots rival into a punching bag after Sunday’s game, took the walk of shame from his lawyer’s Long Island office on Tuesday.

The 38-year-old burly bartender looked exhausted as he and his parents, including his ex-Suffolk-cop dad, chatted as they exited the building after huddling with high-powered lawyer Bruce Barket in Garden City.

Kurt Paschke Sr., left, called his son Kurt “gentle” and said the 38-year-old has no “history of violence.”Post composite

Paschke looked down several times at his phone as they walked toward the family’s red Ford Explorer.

Then, Paschke, dressed in a black and white plaid checked shirt and black jeans, spotted a Post reporter and photographer and scowled and turned away.

All three refused comment.

Earlier, at the family’s home in Holbrook, the dad called his son “a gentle person’’ with no “history of violence.’’

“He’s being portrayed as some sort of monster,’’ said Kurt Paschke Sr., 62.

“My wife is a breast-cancer survivor, he brought her to the game to have a nice day. These people ruined it, and now it’s being turned around like he was the aggressor,” the father said.

“If you watch the video, you can clearly see he’s being pulled back by one kid in a Patriots jersey while the other Patriots fans are smacking him in the face.

“I’m tired of hearing you never hit a girl in the face or you never punch a girl. If someone can come up with a reasonable recourse that he had, something realistic, I’d be glad to look at it.

“Some of the media is making it out like he’s this crazed killer,’’ added Paschke Sr., referring to his son’s conviction in the 1992 stabbing death of another then-teen during a fight outside a Sayville pizzeria.

“My son was a Boy Scout. He was an Eagle Scout. He was a normal 17-year-old kid’’ at the time, the father said.

“ Is he an angel? I’m Not going to stand here and say he’s an angel. He’s a normal person. He’s a gentle person. He doesn’t have a history of violence. He’s very artistic.”

The dad said his son “is obviously very upset’’ over Sunday’s incident, in which he brutally clocked a 26-year-old Patriots fan in the head — an incident caught on videotape that went viral.

“He never intended to hurt anyone. He was just trying to protect himself,’’ said the dad, who has season tickets to the Jets with his son.

Asked if his son knew he was hitting a woman, the dad said, “I don’t think he realized.

“If you look at the video, he’s just blindly swinging. He got punched in the head three or four times before he swung back finally. It’s not like he was the aggressor. I don’t think anyone can look at that video and say he’s the aggressor.

“He was concerned for his mother and for himself.

“He went to the game to have a nice day with his mother, and he gets attacked by a group of patriots fans because they lost a football game. How ridiculous is this? They have to turn it into a violent fight.

“This was something that was three hours long,’’ the father said.

“This started in the stands, at the beginning of the game. They were turning around and taunting people and getting verbally abusive to my son’s friends.

“They didn’t start with my son, they started with my son’s friends. They jumped [one pal], knocked him to the ground. I think he had a concussion. [Another] girl was beat up, she has two black eyes, and he just went forward to see if he could help her and they came from behind and dragged him backward and started punching him in the face.

“My wife made several attempts to look for security guards,’’ Kurt Sr. said. “There were none.’’

The father added that his son’s slaying of Henri Ferrer in 1992 is nothing but a red herring in this case.

“These people that attacked him [at the time] were a group of neo-Nazi skinheads that came from Brentwood down to Sayville with the intent and purpose of beating up my son,’’ Kurt Sr. said.

“He just tried to defend himself. The so-called victim was armed at the night, and the people he was with one armed with knives.”