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Posted on 11/26/2013 3:25:18 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
"The community we share in Brooklyn will not tolerate random acts of violence," said Clarke. "Attacks on any people in our community are an attack on our community as a whole. With the leadership of this community and the New York City Police Department, we will stop the violence that threatens our safety."
Jeffries's office said several victims have been assaulted by people playing the knockout game in Crown Heights, which has a significant Jewish population. One assailant, Amrit Marajh, has been charged with a hate crime, a response that other Brooklyn leaders welcomed.
"I'm here, standing with my colleagues in government, group of African-American and West Indian American leaders to reach out now, before it's too late, to any young person, who thinks, for one second, that it’s cool to sucker punch a totally unsuspecting, defenseless person for laughs or to gain some ridiculous measure of status," said Brooklyn District Attorney-elect Ken Thompson.
"This dangerous, despicable 'game' represents the worst kind of sick violence — and the perpetrators must be dealt with swiftly and harshly," said Brooklyn Borough President-elect Eric Adams. "Needless violence can never be tolerated; and violence in the name of hate and entertainment are the worst crimes that can be committed against citizens and society."
Over the weekend, Rev. Al Sharpton called the knockout game "insane thuggery."
"We would not be silent if it was the other way around," Sharpton said Saturday. "We cannot be silent or in any way reluctant to confront it when it is coming from our own community."
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It’s about time.
Here in TX we play the “2 in the chest 1 in the head” game.
In some counties we also have the speedy-reload game and the target-grouping count game.
Note, the KO game isn’t really prevalent much here in TX.
From the evidence presented at the trial it sounds like Trayvon Martin was trying to play the “knockout game” but for some reason he failed . . .
> Over the weekend, Rev. Al Sharpton called the knockout game “insane thuggery.”
“We would not be silent if it was the other way around,” Sharpton said Saturday. “We cannot be silent or in any way reluctant to confront it when it is coming from our own community.”
Why didn’t you speak out against it before the MSM started oversensationalizing it Al? Oh yeah you were focused on that Zimmerman guy who got sucker -punched, er that attacked poor Trayvon when he was trying to get back in his vehicle.
I’m shocked to see Al Sharpton coming out about this.
IMHO, we should be calling this what it is. It’s NOT a game. It’s race-based aggravated assault.
The new meme is that the knockout game is a myth. if you see this on social media, it is your obligation to fight it with the truth.
I’m afraid you’re right about that.
I thought it was an urban myth.
Ya, some liberal sites today are reporting that it’s overblown rhetoric from the right wing. They say that this knockout thing doesn’t exist. But Al Sharpton admits it exists??? Is Al Sharpton a white racist??? what the heck????
I'll believe it when I seen it.
You have so far. Haven't you?
Tell that to the victims though of this type of crime.
The only reason why Al Sharpton is concerned about his homies beating on white people is it gives SYG (stand your ground) laws credibility...
Do you really think Al Sharpton cares about white people getting beat up ???
They made the mistake of attacking a Jew. Now that is not just WASP’s they are attacking, it’s no longer a “game” and must be stopped.
pretty hard to shoot someone when you lying unconscious. The very nature of this game is that it comes as a surprise, with no time to respond or retaliate.
Didn’t they get the talkingpoints memo?
The current talk is that the attacks are myths created by the right-wing conservatives.
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