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.
Funny how this never happens in states with strong 2nd Amendment laws.
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?
Got to be a few cops somewhere that are into martial arts and boxing.
Draw and quarter.
Make a “game” of it.
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.
Notice the noobs showing up here and attacking Zimmerman over a he said she said case?
Oh, I think they know all about them.
Even better: Shot down in the street like rabid dogs, by the intended victims.
This is a generationally engrained behavior.
That’s cuz y’all live a hundred miles apart ;-)
Not a problem in New Mexico.
So glad I moved out of South Florida...
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.
FR really does need a like button BTTT!
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.
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.
Seems like the cops and their anal obsession is more your worry.
If someone were to do this to my mom, the parties responsible would be found hanging from the nearest pine tree.
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.
BTW, I didn’t mean any snark in that comment to you personally.
I assure you that 99% of these attacks are happening in "gun free" cities such as NY, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia.
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