Notice the intentional over-definition?
“Investigators do not believe this was an example of the so-called “knockout game,” where people intentionally commit assaults, videotape them, and post them online.”
By adding more and more qualifications to the knockout game, they intentionally exclude those knockout games that do not conform to the new rule.
There is no part of the knockout game that requires those doing it to video record them, especially if they are acting on their own, or to post those videos to the Internet. In fact, it is likely that the majority of knockout games were not video recorded or posted to the Internet.
And, as a note to the journalist and the police, almost nobody “videotapes” anymore.
"DING DING DING! What do we have for him, Johnny?"
As if all practice skirmishes in the “knockout game” are recorded for later coach review...
The only ones who think there is more to this “game” than bragging rights are the media and idiot cops who insist that these civil rights violations are nothing but a prank.
Take your beatdown, comrade.