Posted on 11/24/2013 12:14:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As a 78-year-old woman walked down the street in Brooklyn, carrying her purse and bags, a young black male, about 20 years old, punched her in the head as hard as he could and ran away. The man said nothing and didn’t steal a single item.
This is one of the latest instances of “Knockout,” a “game” of evidently increasing popularity. Young people — sometimes female but usually male, predominantly black, in their teens to early 20s, in groups or alone — approach unsuspecting strangers and punch them in the head as hard as possible with the intention to knock them unconscious with a single blow. Sometimes the aggressors will rob the victim, but usually violence itself is the purpose of the attack. Some of the attackers have even recorded videos of their exploits.
At various times and places, the “game” has been called “Knockout,” “Knockout King,” “One-Hitter-Quitter,” “Pick ’Em Out and Knock ’Em Down,” “Knock ’Em and Drop ’Em,” and “Polar-Bear Hunting” (most likely in reference to whites). The attacks are unprovoked and often happen in broad daylight.
They can be deadly.
So far, six fatalities resulting from Knockout have been documented. The first was of an MIT student in 1992, according to an Associated Press report. Yngve Raustein of Norway was approached by a group of teens who asked him what language he was speaking. They then proceeded to sucker-punch him in the face and rob him and his friend. Raustein immediately fell to the ground. When he tried to get up, the assailants stabbed him in the heart. Cambridge police at the time said that these attacks might be perpetrated by just a few kids.
The game was around before 1992, according to a St. Louis man named Askia who spoke with reporters in 2011. He described a similar game, “One-Hitter Quitter” (a name still used today), from the ’80s, when he was growing up. “We’d be out in the club or something and pick a random person and drop him to see if we could knock him out,” Askia said.
Former players have said that they did it for fun. Others speculate that the game is an attempt to demonstrate manhood and earn respect from peers.
After the murder in 1992, further reports of Knockout didn’t emerge until 2011, with the death of 72-year-old Hoan Nguyen. Nguyen, an immigrant from Vietnam, was walking down the street with his wife in St. Louis when an 18-year-old African American charged the couple, striking Hoan Nguyen directly in the face. He died later that day in the hospital. Soon after the Nguyen homicide, John H. Tucker of the Riverfront Times in St. Louis interviewed local youth who confessed to playing Knockout. The kids said it was popular, and one mother revealed that her son had played it as early as two years before the Nguyen incident. Some players were white; most were black.
Such attacks continued in St. Louis throughout that year, with ten known attacks over a 15-month period up to December 2011, including nonfatal attacks on two men, 73 and 51 years old. Reports of attacks began popping up elsewhere, including Illinois, Nevada, and Washington, D.C.
More reports of the game arose over the next two years, including two more deaths in 2012 and another two in 2013. Delfino Mora in Chicago and Colton Gleason in St. Cloud, Minn., were both fatally punched in the face. Mora, who was scavenging for recyclables before being assaulted, was found three hours after the attack on July 10 of this year. Blood was seeping from his nose. He died the next day. Gleason died in the hospital on September 21 within hours after he was attacked. Neither knew his attackers or had provoked the attack.
Two more people — Michael Daniels of Syracuse, N.Y., and Raphael Santiago of Hoboken, N.J. — were killed in May and September of 2013, respectively, in games of Knockout.
Further reports of Knockout have surfaced in the past week, including an assault in San Diego, the first reported on the West Coast. Recently, the attacks have been most prominent in Brooklyn, where eight victims, primarily white Jews, have been randomly targeted by black teens in games of, as New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly called it, “Knockout” and “Polarbearing.”
In all, incidents of “Knockout” have been reported in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, the District of Columbia, and now California. Most of the victims have been whites and Asians, and attackers tend to target Jews, immigrants, and the elderly in particular. Most of the attackers have been African American.
“This was purely a wanton incident,” said Rita, the daughter of the 78-year-old woman attacked in Brooklyn. “Someone wanted to inflict pain onto someone else, no other purpose.”
— Alec Torres is a William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institute.
I'll tell you what!
Time to play the “wood shampoo game”.
Obama’s brownshirts.
This is looking more and more like Nazi Germany.
The Jews should send out a few of their “protection” squads in Brooklyn.
LOL
Probably traces its roots back to Africa.
Yeah, they are starving.
They clean out the red meat counter at my GIANT market on the 3rd of every month, when their food stamp account gets filled.
Big, hulking black men with skinny little wives in hijabs.
We are feeding the ones who are going to kill us.
Yeah, what? That in no way justifies dangerous criminal behavior.
Yes, part of our rich tapestry of cultures. We shouldn't judge.
Crime has (d)evolved to the point where it no longer needs a motive.
I believe there may be an unspoken idea out there that there are just some people that need to be shot, if they die because they committed or tried to commit a crime like this...
Oh well...
If that is what this is festering in the public that is apparently targeted...I just can’t wait to see the first yute being shot, and die because they were stupid...
And yet, when the race pimps get out there and call this racism for defending yourself against bored yutes who are just playing a game, and are not meant to hurt anyone...
Oh well...
The race wars in this country have already started, so why mince words...
Why ignore the truth...Why allow any excuses (to go unanswered) for the behavior of these “bored” black people committing these crimes???
The people excusing this behavior are hedging their bets on the longevity of the trend, and how long it goes unanswered...
The only answer I can see is to stop a few of these “bored” people in their tracks...
And let the racists chips fall where they throw them...
I see no reason to excuse or pick up those chips either...
Just my opinion...
I believe there may be an unspoken idea out there that there are just some people that need to be shot, if they die because they committed or tried to commit a crime like this...
Oh well...
If that is what this is festering in the public that is apparently targeted...I just can’t wait to see the first yute being shot, and die because they were stupid...
And yet, when the race pimps get out there and call this racism for defending yourself against bored yutes who are just playing a game, and are not meant to hurt anyone...
Oh well...
The race wars in this country have already started, so why mince words...
Why ignore the truth...Why allow any excuses (to go unanswered) for the behavior of these “bored” black people committing these crimes???
The people excusing this behavior are hedging their bets on the longevity of the trend, and how long it goes unanswered...
The only answer I can see is to stop a few of these “bored” people in their tracks...
And let the racists chips fall where they throw them...
I see no reason to excuse or pick up those chips either...
Just my opinion...
I think it’s newer. I first heard of it a few years ago.
Not only are zombie movies now a reality, the government goes to great lengths to protect and cultivate them.
Possibly. It’s not very common to get a mugging that is not tied to a robbery or attempted robbery. I’m still wondering if people considered such a mugging so cowardly that they didn’t even dignify it with news, until recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo_FYVwIeaY
What Tommy Sotomayor has to say about the Sons of Obama and their guerrilla war on western society.
The injured and murdered Whites and Asians are just victims sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. You can be sure no police department is going to touch this, no AG is going to talk about it. The media will not touch it.
Actually, it is even worse.
When certain minority cultures are taught and encouraged to believe that there is nothing wrong with sadistic, violent expressions of anger against other cultures, the result is a kind of mass sociopathy.
For example, imagine if young men of one culture were taught that there was pleasure to be had from emulating the behavior of Ted Bundy...indeed if such behavior were even to become a rite of passage and point of pride. No pain of conscience.
And imagine if this behavior were encouraged by the President, Attorney General, and other leaders of that community (if only by their refusal to condemn it).
I believe that is what we are looking at here. Same for drugs and flash mob robberies as knockouts. It is pure sociopathic/psychopathic evil on a mass (i.e. non-individual) scale.
The leadership of the ghetto culture (including Obama and Holder) have essentially said that sociopathic behavior toward those of the white races is acceptable.
This is sick and dangerous beyond comprehension. Pure evil...pure fascism.
Take note of Angola and Islam. If you try hard enough, you will succeed in pissing-off white America.
Cowardly.
Sadly, if nothing else provokes “white vigilante” gangs, this might.
And the race hustlers would have gotten the chaos and race war they long had longed for.
And just was saying... if anything should qualify as a hate crime this would be it... and yet where are the usual folks who scream about hate crimes?
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