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Police: Examples Of Troubling ‘Knockout’ Game Popping Up All Over
http://newyork.cbslocal.com ^ | November 19, 2013 11:20 PM | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: blackrage; civilrights; diversity; hatecrime; injusticedepartment; knockoutgame; obamasracewar
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1 posted on 11/20/2013 1:15:23 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Two words come to mind:

Public hangings.


2 posted on 11/20/2013 1:16:51 PM PST by Junk Silver
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To: Red Badger

Not one mention of what all the perps have in common.

“game among teens “

No, it’s not a game. This is a one sided race war.


3 posted on 11/20/2013 1:16:58 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Junk Silver

Flogging................


4 posted on 11/20/2013 1:17:17 PM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Red Badger

So how do you tell the difference between a terrorist or a kids game”


5 posted on 11/20/2013 1:17:51 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Red Badger

What’s troubling about this ‘game’ is that young men who look like 0bama’s sons (if he had some) are beating up on white people. That and the media refuses to explain the overt racism.


6 posted on 11/20/2013 1:17:51 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: Red Badger

The media has to stop calling this a “game”. The term trivializes the brutality of the assaults.


7 posted on 11/20/2013 1:18:23 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Red Badger

***** “Flogging................” *******

Only if he survives the sucking chest wound

TT


8 posted on 11/20/2013 1:18:46 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: MrB

Pa is a stand your ground state. A few killings of the perps might slow things down. Calling Charles Bronson!


9 posted on 11/20/2013 1:19:00 PM PST by Renegade
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I’m not suggesting it happen, but some Bernard Goetz type would find a target rich environment if they were to intentionally set themselves up as bait...


10 posted on 11/20/2013 1:19:10 PM PST by Maverick68
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To: Red Badger

“Many present said young African-Americans need to be educated about such bias crimes.”

Proper journalism would have stated all perps were black, at the beginning of the article.


11 posted on 11/20/2013 1:19:25 PM PST by Rennes Templar (America needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.)
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To: Red Badger

Just wait until whites start having “Defense leagues” and community handgun training. The black caucus will scream bloody murder and the MSF will come down heavily on these “fringe racist militia” groups.


12 posted on 11/20/2013 1:19:47 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Red Badger

Flogging until their areses bleed then thrown them out naked in the public square (such as it is these days)


13 posted on 11/20/2013 1:19:50 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Red Badger

Funny we ain’t seen much of it yet in Montana.


14 posted on 11/20/2013 1:21:09 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Red Badger

Send the perps to Nigeria to be with the other Nigerians..


15 posted on 11/20/2013 1:23:26 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Junk Silver

How come the people who are uploading these images are not being arrested and or identified?


16 posted on 11/20/2013 1:24:24 PM PST by funfan
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To: Red Badger

>>“I’m for people being arrested. That would be the best education in the world,” Hikind said.

Yes, serving time is an education in how to be a better thug! Anyone who plays this “game” needs to find themselves with several bullet holes in the chest, while wondering “it wasn’t supposed to go like this” for the last few seconds before the lights go out forever. Just like St. Skittles.


17 posted on 11/20/2013 1:25:17 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Rennes Templar

Didn’t they? Oh.. no... they used the proxy word, “teens”.


18 posted on 11/20/2013 1:25:24 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Red Badger

Interesting this should be happening at the same time so-called black “leaders” are waging their war on “Stand Your Ground”.


19 posted on 11/20/2013 1:25:25 PM PST by South40 (Liberalism is a Disease)
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To: Red Badger

Hopefully none of these victims will shoot their attacker because...


20 posted on 11/20/2013 1:25:26 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (What do we want? Time travel. When do we want it? It's irrelevant.)
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