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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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To: MrB

Funny how this never happens in states with strong 2nd Amendment laws.


41 posted on 11/20/2013 1:35:23 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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To: jpl

That is shameful. In the one image they are showing I wonder about the SUV parked at the end of the alley the door was open did it belong to one of those in the group?


42 posted on 11/20/2013 1:35:45 PM PST by funfan
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To: Red Badger
Seems like if the cops were that concerned they would be setting up decoys and stings on these bastards.

Got to be a few cops somewhere that are into martial arts and boxing.

43 posted on 11/20/2013 1:35:54 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: Red Badger

Draw and quarter.

Make a “game” of it.


44 posted on 11/20/2013 1:37:50 PM PST by Salamander (Blue Oyster Cult Will Be The Soundtrack For The Revolution.....)
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To: Rennes Templar

You are correct, but that journalist would be covering JV Girls Tennis matches in the Bronx, or moved to the food section if he told the truth.

The stunning falsehoods of modern Liberal writers is disturbing.


45 posted on 11/20/2013 1:39:04 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Bryanw92
Just like St. Skittles.

Notice the noobs showing up here and attacking Zimmerman over a he said she said case?

46 posted on 11/20/2013 1:39:10 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Red Badger
"Many present said young African-Americans need to be educated about such bias crimes."

Oh, I think they know all about them.

47 posted on 11/20/2013 1:39:15 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Junk Silver
>> Public hangings.

Even better: Shot down in the street like rabid dogs, by the intended victims.

48 posted on 11/20/2013 1:39:49 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Eagles6

This is a generationally engrained behavior.


49 posted on 11/20/2013 1:40:18 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: Fightin Whitey

That’s cuz y’all live a hundred miles apart ;-)


50 posted on 11/20/2013 1:40:35 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Red Badger

Not a problem in New Mexico.

So glad I moved out of South Florida...


51 posted on 11/20/2013 1:41:32 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Cicero

This is the true Obama legacy. Watched Sharpton being interviewed, and his answer was what we’ve come to expect; “they’re angry!” Really? Emboldened would be my answer! This is a clear offshoot of the Obama/Holder race baiting, the “get in their faces” legacy.


52 posted on 11/20/2013 1:42:32 PM PST by stilloftyhenight (TEA baby! Let's roll!)
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To: Wurlitzer

FR really does need a like button BTTT!


53 posted on 11/20/2013 1:42:41 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: funfan
It's shameful, and worse.

These attacks are also charmingly known by the term "Polar Bear Hunting", which is a clue as to the nature of what's going on.

54 posted on 11/20/2013 1:43:19 PM PST by jpl (The government spent another half a million bucks in the time it just took you to read this tagline.)
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To: Renegade

I had a couple “yutes” looking real hard at me one night after walking out of work. I caught them out of the corner of my eye and while one looked like he was going to walk up towards me, his buddy started to move out of my peripheral vision (they were about 30-40 feet away at this point). None the less, them splitting up like that I didn’t care the motive so I pulled my piece and kept it out as I walked to the parking lot. The both did 180’s and walked away in a hurry not even saying words to each other. Still don’t know their intents to this day but they certainly knew mine. This was by Heinz field.


55 posted on 11/20/2013 1:43:45 PM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: Crusher138
Not a problem in New Mexico.

Seems like the cops and their anal obsession is more your worry.

56 posted on 11/20/2013 1:44:37 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

If someone were to do this to my mom, the parties responsible would be found hanging from the nearest pine tree.


57 posted on 11/20/2013 1:44:38 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites.)
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To: cuban leaf

You need more gun. A 44 Ruger super redhawk springs to mind. Mine is gone due to an unfortunate canoeing accident. I am from KY also.


58 posted on 11/20/2013 1:44:57 PM PST by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Crusher138

BTW, I didn’t mean any snark in that comment to you personally.


59 posted on 11/20/2013 1:45:47 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Maverick68
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...

I assure you that 99% of these attacks are happening in "gun free" cities such as NY, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia.

60 posted on 11/20/2013 1:46:04 PM PST by PGR88
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