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This beating is “tough to watch,” said the news anchor. But when it comes to black on white violence caught on video, that does not narrow it down much. This one is in Lexington, Ky., from WLEX news. “And we do warn you: Some may find the images disturbing.” But hardly unique. The reporter was introducing her viewers to a recently released video of black man attacking a white college student waiting for a bus. The assault begins with a close-up of the man who is about to ask the college student for a cigarette. When the student says no,...

100 in black mob found destroying property and attacking people These are supposed to be the good kids. The ones supposed to be impressed with the legacy of their high school’s namesake: Frederick Douglass. They wear uniforms. They have a strict code of conduct. They prepare for college. They are black. And this week, they are the ones rioting at Frederick Douglass high school and junior high in Rochester. Maybe the students don’t know the story of Frederick Douglass: How it was against the law for a slave to learn to read or get any kind of education. How he...

Letter upsets city's Black History Month Black History Month in Baltimore is a busy, busy time. Every aspect of black life in this city is remembered and celebrated: Black schools. Black music. Black movies. Black churches. Black literature. Black clothing. Black politicians. Even black trains. Then Tracey Halvorsen had to go and spoil it all: She wrote an article about crime in Baltimore. How she and her mostly white neighbors live in fear. And no one seems to care. Or worse, lots of people think it is normal. “Baltimore City,You Are Breaking My Heart,” is going viral for an on-line...

As black mob violence goes, the recent racial mayhem at the Florida State Fair in Tampa was not that big of a deal. Sure hundreds of black people were fighting. On video. Police were attacked. Property destroyed. Fair-goers beaten. Venders assaulted. Cell phones stolen. An old lady in a wheelchair robbed. People jumping fences and refusing to pay for rides. The fair closed early. And most of the media glossed over most of it. Despite the fact that officials even said they expected it. The local daily paper in Tampa carried a story about a Trayvon Martin commemoration rally in...

It appears crimes have long shadows, at least several years in some cases. Seandell Jackson killed Nathan Potter in Milwaukee in 2009. Jackson was a convicted felon who had shot someone a few hours before he shot Potter. For the same reason: Of course it was a robbery, but he told the judge he thought he was “having fun.” Potter was college student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. By all accounts a gentle soul. A free spirit. A few hours before Potter’s execution, at least one person dialed 911 to report a couple of sketchy characters lurking around the neighborhood....

The mayor of Wilmington, Del., knew something was wrong. After one year on the job, this former homicide cop had a hunch his police department had a leak. “The problems that we were having with this city with crime and information that got out too fast, my suspicion was always somebody might be involved in something,” said Mayor Dennis Williams to WDEL radio. But that is all it was, a hunch. And it stayed that way until last month, when city police found one of their own – a 911 dispatcher – allegedly giving her thug boyfriend a heads up...

Black students in Minneapolis are really upset about crime. Not with the criminals, but with the university officials who insist on reporting that most of suspects in most of the campus crimes are black. In December they took action. After a semester-long wave of black-mob violence and black-on-white crime at the University of Minnesota, six groups of black students and faculty demanded that police stop identifying criminals by race. They say the crime reporting is racially biased and is increasing their “collective alarm.” Campus police describe the crimes as increasingly frequent and “increasingly brazen.” Some happening in the daytime in...

Cory Robinson woke up with a fractured skull. A black mob beat him, shredded his clothes and robbed him in San Antonio late Thursday night. The last thing Robinson heard was “get the white boy” and “knockout.” That much we know for sure. But many people who tried to cobble together the sometimes conflicting stories from several San Antonio news sites came away with the impression: 1) It was not an assault, but a fight, 2) Cory Robinson instigated it and 3) Mexicans were responsible for it. None of which is true. All of which is another example of how...

Reporters still mock the Knockout Game. Still try to ignore the pandemic of black on white violence. But victims just keep showing up – the latest this week from Philadelphia. A white boy was walking home from school when two black people attacked him. A third captured it on video: As they shrieked and laughed, the black people punched, and kicked him over and over, eventually knocking him down. The boy did not report the crime to police. They learned about it from the CBS news affiliate. The ABC news affiliate in Philadelphia was all over it too. Most of...

The racial beatings are back in Denver. Just like last year, the year before and the two years before that. Then, like now, the alleged perpetrators are black. The victims are not. This time, however, police told anyone who wanted to know about the pattern of racial violence. And how at least one victim said he and friend were part of the “Knockout Game.” Some Denver media thought it was important to report the description. Others, however, followed the lead of the Denver Post, which said the attacks were “random” and refused to report the race of the alleged predators....

Some guy named Colin Delany says WND stories about black-mob violence are “anecdotal.” Cherry picking. Only for the gullible or those “who want to believe.” Kind of like the black woman who told NPR radio recently how happy she was about the 11 black movies this year — like “Django Unchained,” “The Butler,” “12 Years a Slave” and “Fruitvale Station” — because they “validate” her experience as a black person. Except for the black and woman part. Delany is only repeating what the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Slate and dozens of other liberal house organs are saying: Racial violence is...

Religious and community activists gathered Sunday in the Houston, Texas, office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to call for an end to Knockout Game violence. “It’s an assault,” activist Deric Muhammad said. “It’s a crime against an innocent person.” But there’s a catch. Their public outrage and calls for unity came only after federal hate-crime charges were filed against a white man last week for allegedly “hunting down” and assaulting an elderly black man in Katy, Texas. Until recently, virtually the entire news media were scared to touch the story, while one journalist – Colin Flaherty – bravely reported...

The reporters thought they were the good guys: Chattanooga is one of the most dangerous cities in America, and their series for The Times Free Press was creating pressure for local officials to do something about it. Just one month ago the paper was bragging about the initial results of its Speak No Evil series: Police arrested “32 of the worst of the worst” in this city of 176,000 and the newspaper obliged by putting their pictures on the front page. Everyone arrested was black. The first phase was over: First, recognize that “most violent crime comes from a very...

Call it whatever you want: The Knockout game. Polar bear hunting. Wolf packs. Black on white crime. Black mob violence. Whatever: New reports of racial violence from New Haven, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Salisbury, Milwaukee, Oakland, Minneapolis, Brooklyn, Antioch and other places are coming in faster than reporters can wish them away. No matter how much the Society of Professional Journalist tries otherwise. No matter how many members of the National Association of Black Journalists want to convince us differently. Even Al Sharpton admits the attacks are real and “racist.” Which is more than the New York Times, CNN, USA Today and...

By itself, four black people in Milwaukee punching Tim Bessette in the face, knocking him out, breaking bones in his face, laughing and running away, does not constitute a national emergency. No matter how badly this 53-year-old white man was hurt. No matter how much he insists he is a victim of the Knockout Game. The assault on Bessette might not even be the Knockout Game – not the way the New York Times, CNN and other media define it. To most reporters – i.e. most of the people writing about how the Knockout Game is a myth – they...

Ever so slowly, reporters are starting to figure out a version of black mob violence called the Knockout Game. The first chip in the wall fell in New York, where Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said last week that Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights were the victims of eight episodes of mob violence and vandalism. He did not see a pattern. But the New York Post did, reporting: “The way the game is played, one of a number of young blacks decides to show that he can knock down some stranger on the streets, preferably with one punch, as they pass...

They call them “Let Out Fights:” The black mob violence that is a regular feature of life at nightclubs, coast to coast, especially at closing time. All the time. Sometimes the fighting is just a few people. Other times as many as 500. Gunfire is common. So is video. Arrests are not. Some recent examples: In Portland last weekend, a “riot” and triple shooting left one man dead and two wounded outside of a black nightclub – so dangerous even its own bouncers recently had to call police because they feared for their lives during an after-hours party. Local media...

The latest case of black-mob violence in Chicago is far from the worst. We’ll get to that one in a minute. But when a mob of black people rushed into three Chicago-area Sports Authority stores this week and rushed out dragging entire racks of winter clothing, the local CBS affiliate dubbed that “unbelievable.” CNN said the videos were “shocking.” Not really: “That crime was only unbelievable or shocking to the reporters who spend all their time ignoring and denying black mob violence,” said one Chicago cop, who would rather keep his job than be identified as a source of stories...

The white hipsters of Austin want us to know that race had nothing to do with the 200 black people who fought, destroyed property and threw rocks at police a few days before Halloween. White people do it all the time, said Katie Friel, who writes for Culture Map in Austin. But the only time anyone calls it a riot is if it involves a large number of black people, she says. She pointed to a 2011 punk rock concert where mostly white fans tried to tear down the chain link fence. Police sprayed pepper gas. No one said that...

Washington Post writers know how to spot racial hatred: It’s all about the “pattern,” said Mary Curtis in a recent Post column. That is how she can “determine the motive” of white members of Congress who oppose President Obama. And whether they are racist. But this pattern-seeking reporting has not yet made its way to the Post crime desk. And the latest example of that came Halloween night, when a “large group of assailants” beat and robbed a 50-year teacher at the Metropolitan Branch Trail, a hiking and biking path from Union Station downtown to the suburbs in Maryland. It’s...