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Police Unsure if Random Attacks Are Rising Threat or Urban Myth
New York Times ^ | Nov 22, 2013 | Cara Buckley

Posted on 11/23/2013 8:17:21 AM PST by posterchild

Fear swept through Borough Park, Brooklyn, as soon as the news got out: A young man was randomly assaulted by strangers early Friday morning, and the attack was possibly part of the so-called Knockout Game.

Four men were arrested, but on Friday night only one was charged and the others were released.

The attack added to a growing log of reports of such crimes in the Northeast and beyond. Young assailants were randomly picking unlucky targets and trying to knock them out with just one punch.

Yet police officials in several cities where such attacks have been reported said that the “game” amounted to little more than an urban myth, and that the attacks in question might be nothing more than the sort of random assaults that have always occurred.

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To: posterchild

“Teens,” “strangers,” anything to avoid saying blacks. Blacks are playing the knockout game. They are going polar bear hunting. There have been a few reports of dark Hispanic kids taking part, so it might be spreading, but for now it is almost exclusively a black activity. The radicalization of blacks, and the leftist destruction of black families and black minds has a price, violence.


21 posted on 11/23/2013 8:47:15 AM PST by pallis
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To: BCW

I’ve got the nickel version. But living in CA unless they try to knock me out in my kitchen it won’t do me me good.


22 posted on 11/23/2013 8:48:34 AM PST by skeeter
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To: posterchild

Yep. I’m sure the police have no idea what is going on. One hopes that a Slimes writer gets “educated”.


23 posted on 11/23/2013 8:52:44 AM PST by Hacksaw (I haven't taken the 30 silvers.)
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To: posterchild

So far as I’m aware, this is the first time the NYT has felt the need to lie about the nature of the racist knockout attacks. That constitutes progress.


24 posted on 11/23/2013 8:58:15 AM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: posterchild

Yet police officials in several cities where such attacks have been reported said that the “game” amounted to little more than an urban myth, and that the attacks in question might be nothing more than the sort of random assaults that have always occurred.

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If there are no more parameters or ‘rules’ than that it really may not differ enough from a random assault to matter. There would have to be an uptick in racially motivated hate crimes or a truly organized campaign for police to be interested.


25 posted on 11/23/2013 9:00:23 AM PST by erlayman
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To: skeeter
But living in CA unless they try to knock me out in my kitchen

They just might.

Keep 'em clean, close at hand, with plenty of ammo ready to go--if I have to make my stand in the kitchen, why, I will.

26 posted on 11/23/2013 9:04:10 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: posterchild

I’m waiting to hear that the pre-emptive “1911 Game” is taking hold.


27 posted on 11/23/2013 9:05:07 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: posterchild

The media simply refuse to report the truth; i.e., that Black crime is out of control and is costing America hundreds of millions of dollars every year.


28 posted on 11/23/2013 9:05:08 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: BCW

Great Picture - I posted reflexively without looking down the thread to see that you had already made my point in exemplary fashion.


29 posted on 11/23/2013 9:09:27 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: posterchild
Freep this poll.

Who are the primary perpetrators of the "Knockout Game"?

30 posted on 11/23/2013 9:12:15 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: posterchild
The last two paragraphs are interesting:

Police officials in Syracuse said the city had seen two such attacks this year, each fatal, and they were on the lookout for more. The police said that at least one of the assailants said he was playing the Knockout Game.

“I think it’s very real,” Sgt. Tom Connellan said. “As opposed to a motive for assault, be it anger or robbery, this is strictly for a game.”


31 posted on 11/23/2013 9:21:23 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Sure, it’s a counter,,, as long as you’re not face down and unconscious on the sidewalk from a sucker punch from behind.

Situational awareness is a life-saver. I like to count "targets" as I walk in any city business district - people walking around on the streets while texting or with their iPod earbuds blocking out the sounds around them. They may as well be wearing sandwich-board signs that spell out "Attack Me".

32 posted on 11/23/2013 9:28:59 AM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: posterchild
Police Unsure if Random Attacks Are Rising Threat or Urban Myth

Yeah, how could they possibly know, they don't keep records or anything.

33 posted on 11/23/2013 9:31:21 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: posterchild

An urban myth. That’s what the newspapers of record in 1930s Germany called Kristallnacht, when rabid anti-Semites murdered Jews while the police refused to intervene.

How many Jews will rabid anti-Semitic blacks be able to kill in New York City before its newspaper of record calls it what it is, a holocaust?


34 posted on 11/23/2013 9:32:14 AM PST by Bluestocking
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To: 4yearlurker

The media are such lying vermin.


35 posted on 11/23/2013 9:32:37 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Jeff Chandler
•African-American youths (44%)

•Bored youths (28%)

•I don't know. (22%)

•Amish youths (6%)

Obviously the responders are unfamiliar with FR speak.

36 posted on 11/23/2013 9:36:19 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: armydawg505
Cheer up. Maybe the next "knockout" target will be a New York Times reporter.
37 posted on 11/23/2013 9:46:32 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: BCW
nice gun got 1 xdm always nearby 45 springfield
38 posted on 11/23/2013 9:57:13 AM PST by jessky
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To: posterchild
Don't forget this sort of thing is a long and hallowed tradition with the NYT.

Here's their correspondent Walter Duranty's story on the Ukrainian Holodomor (Stalin-induced famine):

“Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda. There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.”

39 posted on 11/23/2013 10:02:52 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Navy Patriot

I voted Amish.


40 posted on 11/23/2013 10:43:36 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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