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.
In other news...
Mayor Bloomberg announced a plan to combat these violent attacks by passing a city ordinance requiring pedestrians to wear helmets. Blows to the head will be ineffectual and the crime will stop.
There. I fixed it.
The 44 Special I am familiar with is loaded to the exact specifications of Elmer Keith. The bullets will penetrate a telephone pole, the 357 Mag is just a little more powder than the 38. Big waste of powder.
At some point, we’re going to realize the root of this problem and begin sacking newspaper offices and TV stations, tarring and feathering the editors and reporters.
Even here where I live in small-town USA in western Pa., we had two black-on white attacks just last week. These included robbery. Even though it’s a college town with a large student population, we’ve never had problems like this.
You CAN CC in Philly.Can’t open carry.
Have you heard of any of these “teens” being arrested and serving serious jail time?
“My son is a good boy—a very good boy.” That is what all the failed mamas say.
And the local media help them cover it up. It is the iron triangle of politics, media and business.
Is it because these incidents involve blacks and this is a nice sensitive correct way of saying brutal attacks on whites from blacks are escalating?
They will be made to write “I will not play the knock-out game” a hundred times. Just like in grade school.
Can whites create a “payback game”?
I saw a few minutes of BOR last night and they featured this. Some at FOX even dance around the truth of this.
These yutes are not poor and angry, they are empowered thugs made that way by Obama and Holder. Neither one says a word about curtailing this behavior.
So, I assume they condone it. People like BOR need to start calling it like it is. FOX simply cannot use the Fair and balanced excuse for the truth. There are no white kids participating in this behavior. Acting ignorant only empowers this activity even more.
Brown Bear Hunting? Knockyaback king?
What are the stats showing the incidences of the knockout game versus gun laws in the area? Bet there are way fewer incidents where it’s legal / common to pack heat. That one punch better be a good one.
This should not be reffered to as a game. It is criminal assault and a racist hate crime. People have been murdered by these racist criminals.
“Walking tall or Death Wish both of those movies come to my mind.”
Also, given the ethnicity of many of the victims, consider the plot of Steven Spielberg’s “Munich”....
Was surprised to see good coverage of “Knockout Game” as a trend in the Philly area tonight on TV channel 3 (CBS) local news - but of course not a mention of the fact that it’s perpetrated by blacks against whites (although ample pictures of the victims and the perps pretty much made the point clear without the newsies having to say so)......
Yes, but the truth is slowly beginning to come out now. When something like this is happening with this kind of frequency, it’s impossible to cover it up forever.
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