Police Unsure if Random Attacks Are Rising Threat or Urban Myth

New York Times ^ | Nov 22, 2013 | Cara Buckley

[posterchild]

Fear swept through Borough Park, Brooklyn, as soon as the news got out: A young man was randomly assaulted by strangers early Friday morning, and the attack was possibly part of the so-called Knockout Game.

Four men were arrested, but on Friday night only one was charged and the others were released.

The attack added to a growing log of reports of such crimes in the Northeast and beyond. Young assailants were randomly picking unlucky targets and trying to knock them out with just one punch.

Yet police officials in several cities where such attacks have been reported said that the “game” amounted to little more than an urban myth, and that the attacks in question might be nothing more than the sort of random assaults that have always occurred.

[posterchild]

Sorry, I was reading the wrong title and failed to see that it had been posted already. Please remove.

[armydawg505]

Just the fact that the Slimes says it may be an urban myth is enough to tell anyone it is fact and not myth. The sense that not reporting black crime somehow makes the media more understanding and sensitive to African Americans is modern crap. Covering up a problem and letting it fester and get worse has never been a good solution. I am very glad I dont suffer from the “white guilt” these media morons suffer from.

[ClearCase_guy]

the “game” amounted to little more than an urban myth, and that the attacks in question might be nothing more than the sort of random assaults that have always occurred.

[Conspiracy Guy]

The knock out videos are just staged events and no one is really getting hurt. At least that is what the left would have you believe.

[4yearlurker]

We all have to live in Fantasy land and make believe it's not black on white hate crime.

[Steely Tom]

What about newspaper reporters, who are supposed to be "informing the public" ? Are they "not sure?" Is there anything they can do to "uncover the truth," to "follow the truth wherever it leads?"

What phony-baloney frauds these people are.

[TomGuy]

Several deaths, but that is black on white so it isn’t a hate crime. [/s]

If police/LEO don’t find a way to quell this ‘trend’ in a hurry, they will be looking at greater numbers. If the perps think they are getting away with it, they will increase the number of incidents.

This is rather like gangs moving into a new area. The LEOs deny they are a problem until the area has been so infiltrated that the LEOs no longer have control.

This is a chilling trend, and LEOs seem content with it becoming a ‘new normal’.

[Iron Munro]

Police Unsure if Random Attacks Are Rising Threat or Urban Myth

Of course!

We all know how those racist victims lie.

They just want to falsely implicate innocent blacks on their way to church after stopping off for a bag of Skittles.

Most probably whack themselves on the head and make up fake You-Tube videos.

[PoloSec]

The videos I seen were no myth, on the other hand a video causing the Benghazi attacks, that was a myth.

[JudyinCanada]

Easily solved - just check with all of the victims.

[Cicero]

Ask the new Communist mayor, if you can find him.

[cripplecreek]

The cities have always been places of violence and depravity. Even the bible largely describes them as such.

[Charles Henrickson]

Young black assailants were randomly racially picking unlucky non-black targets and trying to knock them out with just one punch.

There, fixed it.

[BCW]

the counter to the Knockout game

[headstamp 2]

To the NYT it’s an “urban myth” just like the rest of the liberal media.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Sure, it’s a counter,,, as long as you’re not face down and unconscious on the sidewalk from a sucker punch from behind.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They are going to start reporting all sorts of crimes as The Knockout Game and then debunk their own deliberately incorrect reporting to prove that The Knockout Game isn't happening.

Sophisticated disinformation is the name of the game, the the NYT specializes in it.

[tanknetter]

Yet police officials in several cities where such attacks have been reported said that the “game” amounted to little more than an urban myth, and that the attacks in question might be nothing more than the sort of random assaults that have always occurred.

Completely ignoring the possibility that the Knockout Game has been going on for YEARS (as a lot of us who read FR know) and attacks have been written up as "random assaults" to mask the racial aspect of the crime.

[skeeter]

I guess some punk needs to bounce Pinch’s head off the sidewalk before the NYT will take this phenomena seriously.