Posted on 12/16/2014 7:15:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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CORDOVA, AL - A 15-year-old is recovering from surgery after he was reportedly attacked in his high school's restroom. His parents say he is the victim of what's been called the "knockout game."
We understand Cordova police are investigating the attack that happened last Thursday, but the chief has not confirmed that yet.
Matthew Cooper says he was hit with a surprise sucker punch by a friend. Now, the teenager has a break and a fracture in his jaw.
He can barely open his mouth but that didn't stop him from telling Alabama's 13 News what happened to him, he says at the hands of a boy he once called a friend.
"I remember turning around and getting hit and that's about it," Matthew said.
Matthew's jaw is being held together by metal plates and screws after surgeons at UAB repaired it Monday night following a sucker punch in his high school's bathroom.
"I remember waking up on the bathroom floor, choking on blood," Matthew said.
His parents say Matthew is the latest victim of what's been called the "knockout game." Similar attacks have been posted to YouTube in recent years. The attacks became so prevalent in New York that state lawmakers drafted legislation that would allow prosecutors to try teenagers as adults if they're accused of sucker punching the unsuspecting.
"It's not what you send your kids to school for. I sure didn't think it would happen to mine," said his mother, Rebecca Cooper....
(Excerpt) Read more at alabamas13.com ...
some friend.
the attacker was an unarmed...black teenager...
3-2-1
No hate crime here - move along.
Some white cracker sales clerk looked at a hooded black thug in a NYC department store sideways...we have so much more work to do.
that’s racist
for got the LOL, my apologies.
Yes I was left very much in the Dark on this as well
That it was a friend says volumes about Obols's "healing" of the country.
I know who I do not trust behind me, ever.
No law enforcement activity, unspecified ‘discipline’ by the school, and no description of the three ‘youths’ who attacked the white victim. Could be crackers, but that’s not a game that white folks usually play.
It’s not a knockout game, it’s attempted murder.
If there were any pay phones left, we could offer you a quarter for calling someone who might still give a damn.
Mine's been 'no longer in service' for some time now.
In a fair world, this boy would be allowed to smack the attacker back in the same exact manner, to see how he liked playing the game. Good for the family, they are removing their son from this zoo of a school, even if it means home schooling.
everythang is Racess these days...dontcha know
unless it is emitted by a Not a Revrunt Sharpton, or someone of his ILLK...
if you still have that payphone, put it on EBAY, probably get good $$$ for it from a collector. LOL
haven’t seen a payphone in 15 years.
Ameliorating the situation, at least he wasn’t set afire.
...this time.
I made mid six figures selling payphones in the 1980’s. Miss that, as you might imagine. LOL
“Matthew admits he should have stayed in class instead of going to bathroom. “He asked me if I wanted a dip once I got to the bathroom,” Matthew said.”
Dip?
“I want the boy to know that I forgive him but I’m not going to be his friend anymore,” Matthew said.”
No comment.
Snuff.
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