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Three teens charged with killing Hoboken man in violent game of 'knockout,' authorities say
Daily News ^ | 9/21/2013

Posted on 09/23/2013 7:36:33 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

Three teenagers were charged for the murder of a homeless Hoboken man who authorities claim was the victim of a violent game called “knockout.”

The boys, two 13-year-olds and a 14-year-old, allegedly followed Ralph Erick Santiago, 46, on Third St. before one of the teens threw a punch at the victim’s head on Sept. 10, prosecutors said.

Santiago fell back from the blow and collapsed onto an iron fence, where he died after his neck was wedged between two posts, police said.

“He was just a loving person, cared about everybody, very spiritual,” his cousin, who declined to give his name, told CBS News. “And it just wasn’t deserved.”

The three suspects, who were not identified because they are juveniles, turned themselves in after police released surveillance pictures of them near the scene.

They were being held without bail at the Hudson County Youth Detention Center after they were arraigned on murder charges Friday.

Investigators believe the teens, who live in Jersey City, were playing a violent game that involves randomly attacking innocent pedestrians in an effort to knock the victim out with one punch.

Relatives told the Jersey Journal that Santiago, a former break dancer and gymnast, was disabled after a similar attack in the Bronx nearly three decades ago.

Santiago was walking with his then-wife, Tracy Squillini, when she told the paper he was attacked outside a public housing complex.

The brutes repeatedly pounded Santiago’s head into the sidewalk before they left him lying unconscious on the street, Squillini said.

The attack put Santiago in a month-long coma, and left him permanantly brain-damaged. He underwent years of physical therapy and needed medication to prevent seizures, Squillini said.

Santiago and Squillini later divorced, but the couple shared a son together.

“I loved him. Not in that romantic way anymore, but because he was truly my friend,” Squillini said. Santiago last spoke to his son a year ago, when the disabled man was evicted from his apartment.

Squillini said the family was relieved that the arrests had been made, but she wants to see justice served.

“Until there’s a conviction, I’m not going to feel that closure,” she told CBS News.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: assault; blackcrime; corruption; gunfreezone; knockoutgame; murder; notagame
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To: Altura Ct.

Similarly in Albany NY a few years ago three Yoots accidently shot a white University student in the back of his head. ACCIDENTLY THE SHOOTER SAID. Bailey, a University at Albany student, was shot in the head about 11:20 p.m. that night as he walked home from watching Monday Night Football by three Yoots on bicycles.
According to the shooter, the ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING occurred during a “ROBBERY”. You live in a tough town when your cover for executing someone by shooting him in the back of his head is because you were robbing him.
The local Obama Outlet Organ did not provide details from the trial which would detail how one “accidently” shoots a person in the back of the head.


21 posted on 09/23/2013 8:16:39 AM PDT by BilLies (WHOSE YOUR DADDY, BARAKO?)
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To: Altura Ct.
According to the Chief of Po-lice in Duram, NC, acts like this are nothing more than "mischievousness" on the part of these youths.
22 posted on 09/23/2013 8:17:09 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Altura Ct.

That monster sitting in the White House has set racial relations back 200 years.

I think he was a member of the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims).


23 posted on 09/23/2013 8:19:58 AM PDT by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama)
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To: Altura Ct.

So I am walking down the sidewalk. Walking towards me in my direction is an African male. Youth model. I alter my trajectory and move to be well out of the range where he could reach me without charging me.

Does this mean that I am a racist?


24 posted on 09/23/2013 8:26:35 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Christian, Freeper, Tea Party Member, Bitter Clinger, Creepy White Cracker)
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To: Altura Ct.
Convict, throw in jail and throw the key away for at least 25 years. Punishment must, regardless of age, be sever. Some black will never get the message. The BS is over.
25 posted on 09/23/2013 8:27:38 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Altura Ct.

I don’t live in an urban area, but over the last year we have had a group of “teenager types” doing serious beat downs of white people. Recently they crashed a HS end of summer outdoor party and beat the crap out of people, GIRLS included. They ran into it swinging.

I think the cops arrested them this time partly because they were concerned about some vigilante justice and what attention that would draw from the national race baiters, including our “post racial” President.

I have a CCDW but only just started carrying around here on a regular basis. But when I go to Louisville, I carry.

The guy that taught our CCDW class said his job (Louisville metro) prohibited him from carrying; but when he was sent to certain areas, he carried nonetheless.


26 posted on 09/23/2013 8:28:28 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: CodeJockey
Does this mean that I am a racist?

Are you non-black? Then of course you are.

27 posted on 09/23/2013 8:38:26 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Altura Ct.

It is not a game, and people need to fight back against media attempts to call it a game. A “violent game”? Sounds like Grand Theft Auto. This is a “violent CRIME” done for fun. It is a psychopathic attack. It is not a game.


28 posted on 09/23/2013 8:41:50 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: ChildOfThe60s
I think the cops arrested them this time partly because they were concerned about some vigilante justice and what attention that would draw from the national race baiters, including our “post racial” President.

This the absolute truth and strikes the root of the matter. The police and the courts are there to protect so-called "minority" criminals. They get arrested time and again and even if they are convicted, which is a small percentage of the time, prison is no punishment and is no deterrent. The criminal justice system is really a criminal social welfare system.

Since the fifties, whenever there is a major riot involving so-called minorities the National Guard is called out to protect the rioters from fed-up citizens and prevent repeat of the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921.

29 posted on 09/23/2013 8:46:38 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Altura Ct.

It’s REALLY “Knockout WHITEY”.


30 posted on 09/23/2013 8:46:43 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

It stems from the same urge to redefine language as saying that “protestors” burned the embassy in Benghazi and killed some of its occupants. Sure, they were just “protesting” and knockout is just a “game”. Clinton, the probable rapist and certain serial sexual harasser, was merely “womanizing”. There are many other examples. Of course they play the game the other way, e.g. characterizing semi-auto firearms as “military assault rifles”. It’s all about advancing the narrative.


31 posted on 09/23/2013 8:48:09 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Logical me
Convict, throw in jail and throw the key away for at least 25 years. Punishment must, regardless of age, be severe.

Not going to happen. You know where this is all leading. And when it gets there you had better be prepared.

Open advice to everyone:
If you don't carry, start training now and get your CCW. Also get a good all purpose home defense firearm and learn how to use it.

32 posted on 09/23/2013 8:51:46 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: Altura Ct.

Either chip them for fish food or deport the bastards, send them home.
Send the pieces of shit to a place they know and recognize. A place where their black hearts will fit in. Who knows, maybe the Lieberians might retune their fiddles.

If they don’t want to fit in, then deport them....
LIEBEERIA


33 posted on 09/23/2013 8:55:40 AM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Altura Ct.

Calling it a game trivializes it. It is murder.

Obviously the media does not see the perps as responsible humans in full control of their actions. So it calls the murder a game.

The life forms at an earlier level of development than normal people call this a game because to them it is just another form of entertainment, like stealing, raping and taking drugs. Since they obviously will never become productive members of society, they can use their developmentally disabled brain power to play games.

Media bots: stop trying desperately to hide significant facts about murderers. No matter how you try to make believe, whenever there’s a ‘wilding’, gang rape, beating of an old person, ‘mob rob’ we know that it’s done by holder’s boys.


34 posted on 09/23/2013 8:55:48 AM PDT by I want the USA back
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To: Altura Ct.
Investigators believe the teens, who live in Jersey City, were playing a violent black game that involves randomly attacking innocent non-black pedestrians in an effort to knock the victim out with one punch.
35 posted on 09/23/2013 9:07:48 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Altura Ct.

Hey Jesse Jackson - where are you on this one? NBC ??? You don’t have to doctor tapes on this one... Looks like hate to me...

If 3 whites had done this to a black man you - Jesse Jackson - would be there with bells on... what... you only protect blacks Jesse? Hey Sharpton - you guys a bunch of racists? Only care about one race?


36 posted on 09/23/2013 9:51:51 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Politicians who fear the people seek to disarm them. - - Bill St. Clair)
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37 posted on 09/23/2013 10:01:41 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Altura Ct.

They’re just hormone-ridden angry young punks, give them a break. They’ll be fine in a few years after its out of their system. You’ll see.

In the mean time, more Obamacare money for the rest and the population problem is reduced a bit.


38 posted on 09/23/2013 10:13:42 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: chris37

But make sure it moves at its SLOWEST speed.


39 posted on 09/23/2013 10:13:51 AM PDT by cliff630 (Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked up in what cage,)
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To: EdReform

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40 posted on 09/23/2013 10:22:03 AM PDT by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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