Posted on 11/20/2013 1:15:23 PM PST by Red Badger
Recent Attacks Have Targeted Brooklyn Jews; 78-Year-Old Woman Latest Victim
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A disturbing and brutal game among teens is also targeting other victims in other cities.
Just last week, CBS 2’s John Slattery reported on a disturbing series of attack on Jews in Brooklyn. Now we’re find out New York City is not alone.
Brutal video is coming in from various places, including Pittsburgh, where a teacher was attacked, and London, where a teen was hit from behind. On Tuesday afternoon, CBS 2 learned of another victim — a 78-year-old woman attacked a week ago Saturday in Midwood.
It’s called the “knockout game.”
The victim in Pittsburgh was 50-year-old James Addeslpurger. A 15-year-old was charged with assault.
Back in September, 46-year-old Ralph Santiago of Hoboken, N.J., was killed after his head was slammed into an iron fence. The three arrested, who police said were captured on video, were just 13 and 14 years old.
And in the latest incident in Midwood, the victim’s daughter said her mother was attacked in broad daylight by a young man who walked toward her, balled up his fist and hit her with all his might on the top of her head then ran off.
The woman told CBS 2’s Dave Carlin her mother was loaded down with department store bags and a handbag, but there was no attempt to take anything; just to do harm.
“She had her purse, she had bags from department stores. There was not even an attempt to take anything from her. It was just a wanton act to hurt another human being,” the victim’s daughter said.
She said her mother did not go to the hospital and did not report it to police because she thought it was an isolated case, and she didn’t get a good look at the man’s face.
The woman was amazed that anyone could perpetrate such a violent act.
“How would you feel if this was happening to you or a member of your family?” she said, “If you don’t like it to happen to you or a member of your family, don’t do it to someone else.”
What’s happened of late in Brooklyn is just a variation on a theme. Since October, there have been four attacks in Crown Heights.
“It’s ‘knockout,’ and it happens to be a Jew in each and every case,” State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) said.
He expressed shock at the latest incident in Midwood.
“People think it’s a fun thing to attack somebody – in this case, a person who’s 78 years old,” Hikind told 1010 WINS’ Al Jones.
In the recent attacks in Brooklyn, a 20-year old Israeli man in a hooded jacket was attacked, and another man’s 12-year-old son was hit on his way to Hebrew school.
At a community meeting between blacks and Jews in Crown Heights, an assistant police chief said there have been four such assaults since early October. So, more police have been deployed. Many present said young African-Americans need to be educated about such bias crimes.
“We need to engage these young people and engage their parents,” said the Rev. Taharka Robinson of the Brooklyn Anti-Violence Coalition.
Assemblyman Hikind said that’s fine, but he wants more.
“I’m for people being arrested. That would be the best education in the world,” Hikind said.
Hikind urged the NYPD to catch those responsible quickly and show the “knockout game” is not a game at all.
Many are calling “knockout” another example of peer pressure and showing off, with tragic and sometimes fatal results.
While he didn’t send the perp to join little Trevon, a Lansing, Michigan concealed carry guy did shoot his assailant in the butt a few months back -
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/point_it_out_knock_it_out_brut.html
You can CC in Philly. Can’t OPEN carry!
Happens in PA and it is a very gun friendly state!
That is way it works. It is allowed to fester because of political correctness and then it gets out of control. Unfortunately it takes a murder or heinous attack that gives the perps long prison sentences before other gang banger wannabes reconsider their actions.
Does it happen in conceal carry states?
I’ve been looking hard at the XDS. Something about a revolver though; it seems to scream “it will work the first time”. ;)
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Police: Examples Of Troubling ‘Knockout’ Game Popping Up All Over, Red Badger wrote: In response to the suggestion (of a 410 pocket Derringer) aim at the groins of the attackers
That will stop the release of testosterone.
That will also stop the future release of sperm cells....................
Oh My ! Would that happen ? Gee too bad....
Would it really matter? If you are knocked out, you have no chance to use your weapon.............
I still have friends and family that don't understand why I carry my gun everywhere I go.
The sons of Barrack, "this is for Traytable" types are the exact reason.
They're too stoopid to understand, what was for trayvon, was 9mm round.
That’s the point. Keep your distance from black kids in groups.
A lot of these assaults are done from behind..........cowards..................
“Seems like if the cops were that concerned they would be setting up decoys and stings on these bastards.”
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Uh,uh ! The cop haters here at FR certainly wouldn’t want that to happen. You know,jack-booted thugs and all that.
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True. But I’m not concerned about myself so much. I keep my loved ones between myself and trouble as best I can.
Best to stay out of BIG CITIES...................
the Nigerians who come this country are usually well spoken and highly educated..
As Stalin, Mao and Hitler.. and most Marxist(Statist) American College Professors.. are.....
And most European Academic brain washed Socialists..
Designer brain washing is what Universitys do now..
The BORG are alive and well teaching your children..
Unfortunately, drive by shooting not unknown here but it’s virtually ALWAYS Hispanic gangs, not blacks.
That's probably why that fruit started growing in the first place...People just plum sick of the violence.!
Except for Philadelphia...
Four teens arrested in murder of beloved World War II veteran
Four Mississippi teenagers have been charged with murder in the killing of a beloved World War II veteran who gained local fame for his home-cooked hot tamales...
Thornton died Oct. 20, succumbing to the injuries he sustained after four teenagers "pushed him down and stole his wallet," during an apparent mugging that occurred in the late-afternoon two days earlier in the driveway of his long-time Greenville home.
The media characterized this as a "mugging gone wrong," but the robbery seems incidental to the "knockout" aspect. Funny how this case didn't get a whole lot of mainstream media coverage...
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