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Originally posted by m52nickerson:
Folks on a TV show talking about it does not mean it is a real thing. Still waiting for some solid evidence.

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Folks on a TV show talking about it does not mean it is a real thing. Still waiting for some solid evidence.

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That's a long wait for a train don't come.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Yep. CNN is just making it all up, as they are want to do.

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Yep. CNN is just making it all up, as they are want to do.

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Not making it all up but connecting dots that are not there. Again, show us the hard evidence.

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Unless you spent the whole month of November on vacation, you’ve probably been hearing about the “Knockout Game.” According to the news of the last few weeks, it’s a brand new game, spreading all over the country, in which young, African-American teenagers — sometimes alone, sometimes in groups — come up to innocent, unsuspecting people and try to knock them out with one punch.

This has been happening all over the place — including dozens of times right here in Philly — and no one in safe. But Barack Obama won’t condemn it. Neither will Al Sharpton.

Right?

In fact, the prevailing media narrative of the Knockout Game is starting to look completely wrong.

Yes, the Knockout Game exists. These assaults have happened, and we’ve seen video of them. But the many assumptions associated with the “Game” — that it’s new, that it’s a widespread phenomenon, that it’s a major thing that’s happening everywhere, and that it is always black-on-white — are overhyped if not completely false.

Anyone physically assaulting another person should be arrested and hauled off to jail for a long time, whether they’re playing the “Game” or not. That should go without saying. Those who have been assaulted in this way have my deepest sympathies. If police wish to charge the assailants with a hate crime — as they have in a couple of instances in New York in which Orthodox Jews were allegedly targeted — that’s certainly valid.

It also appears most people committing such assaults have been quickly caught; after all, criminals who videotape their crimes and upload them to social networks under their own names tend to not remain free for long.

But the media narrative of the Knockout Game sounds highly suspicious, and something’s been off about it from the beginning. It reminds a lot me of “wilding” and “Satanic ritual abuse.” It’s something for local newscasts to hype up to scare their audiences — just another thing that just might kill you or your children when you leave the house tomorrow, along with bird flu and unsafe child car seats.

First of all, this “game” is not new. There have been reports of bored teenagers punching random people for years, by some accounts going back to the early 1990s. Nor is random assault a new phenomenon. And the implication that the only people who punch others in the head are black teenagers should come as news to anyone who’s ever spent an afternoon in the upper deck at an Eagles game.

I don’t buy that it’s suddenly widespread, either. Philadelphia police sources told the Daily News in an article published Monday that there has been one — that’s right, one — confirmed case of the Knockout Game in the city among recent assaults ( http://articles.philly.com /2013-11-26/news/44453303_1_knockout-game-fox-chase-assaults), a Fox Chase man. (The suspect in the high-profile Broad Street Puncher case, according to a SEPTA spokeswoman quoted by this website last week, was not participating in the “Game”, and had mental issues -- http://www.phillymag.com/news/ 2013/11/21/knockout-game-septa-police-person-interest-broad-street-puncher-case/)

The skepticism extends outside Philly. A New York Times piece about the game ( http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/nyregion/knockout-game-a-spreading-m
enace-or-a-myth.html?_r=2&;) quoted several law enforcement officials in different cities — including New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, no liberal softie he — as questioning and trying to determine whether or not the “Knockout Game” is an urban myth. And while Jersey City, N.J., has been on dozens of lists of cities where Knockout Game assaults have taken place, that city’s police spokesman told the Times that there have been no such incidents reported there.

What we’re seeing is, every time there’s a mugging or violent assault anywhere, it’s attributed in media coverage to the Knockout Game, even when the connection is not confirmed — every single assault is now suddenly a “possible knockout.”

That Daily News story also quoted police as saying that the city of Philadelphia, this year, has seen 5,000 aggravated assaults that haven’t involved guns. So if one or ten or 20 of those 5,000 have been the Knockout Game, I’m thinking this story has been somewhat overhyped, in relation to the city’s overall crime problem.

Then there’s the tale of Beulah Montgomery, a 60-year-old woman who pulled a gun and shot and killed a pair of Knockout Game assailants, in a story that got tons of play in social media. Too bad the story was a complete fabrication. ( http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/montgomery.asp)

Of course, there’s another, rather ugly side to this. Go and read the comments of just about every news article published online about the Knockout Game in the last few weeks, and you’ll notice a pattern emerging. It generally goes: Racial slur, racial slur, complaint that the media is ignoring the story, racial slur, violent gun-toting revenge fantasy, racial slur, complaint that the article downplayed the race of the suspects, concern trolling about absentee fathers, racial slur and “Where is Obama?”

In the last few years, there’s been a concerted effort, in some of the less savory corners of right-wing media, to create a certain impression: That black-on-white violence is skyrocketing to out of control levels, and that white people should all be very, very afraid Sites like the Drudge Report and World Net Daily have hyped virtually every instance of such violence, always with the implication (or more than the implication: "Flash Mobs ARE Obama's America", http://www.breitbart.com/ Big-Government/2012/07/17/Flash-Mobs-ARE-Obama-s-America) that Obama is president, and why won’t he stop it?

First of all, if there’s any data to show that black-on-white violent crime has spiked in recent years, locally or nationally, it has yet to be released from any reputable source. Overall crime statistics, in fact, have been trending downward for two decades. There’s absolutely no data to speak of showing that any such race-based explosion of violence has taken place- it’s nothing but argument by anecdote.

As for Obama, he’s the president of the United States. His job description does not include supervision and discipline of all black people. The actions of black street criminals reflect on him only in the minds of pure, unreconstructed racists.

Remember all those predictions about “race riots” after the George Zimmerman verdict ( https://www.google.com/search?q=Zimmerman+trial+race+riots&oq=Zimm
erman+trial+race+riots&aqs=chrome ..69i57.7040j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv= 210&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8), the ones that never came to pass? There’s clearly a large audience that wants to hear that “the black kids are running wild,” regardless of whether or not it’s true.

As for Al Sharpton refusing to condemn the attacks? He condemned the attacks, strongly. The New York Post responded by ripping him for not calling for marches against them ( http://nypost.com/2013/11/23/al-sharpton-condemns-knockout-attacks/).

In the city of Philadelphia this year, there have been around 300 cases of murder and, as stated above, 5,000 assaults. There has been one confirmed case of the Knockout Game and, at most, a couple of dozen unconfirmed ones. Why in the world the Knockout Game has gotten more media attention than the murders is completely unfathomable.

Will we still be talking about the Knockout Game in two months, or six months? Probably not, even though chances are it will be happening as frequently (or infrequently) then as it is now. http://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/11/26/weve-sucker-punched-knockout-
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If Wulfenstar were here he'd say:

Nah, this is a racial thing. Black folks can be racist *ssholes too - anyone can.
It also seems to be mostly teenagers - young enough to be stupid, old enough to be dangerous.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
As noted by Mike Tyson, clobbering some stranger on the street isn't something new. But these aren't muggings. They're literally hit and run attacks.

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As noted by Mike Tyson, clobbering some stranger on the street isn't something new. But these aren't muggings. They're literally hit and run attacks.

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Okay, that is still not evidence of some game sweeping the nation.

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as they are want to do.

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This is actually occurring.

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So, if it's not being reported, it's not worth worrying about ?

But if it IS being reported, it's being over blown, or there are other problems in the 'verse, so it's really no big deal, huh?

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You can't worry about these things. Just be alert to potentially dangerous situations and avoid them. That's always been the wise thing to do.

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Fox Airs Inaccurate Report on Media-Fueled ‘Knockout Game’ Hate Crime Against Elderly Black Man

Last week, the Department of Justice filed hate crimes charges against 27-year-old white male Conrad Alvin Barrett for allegedly assaulting a 79-year-old black man, knocking him to the ground and fracturing his jaw in two places. Police recovered video from the suspect in which he says he was looking for a black victim, in order to test media reaction to the attack. Over the weekend, Fox News’ James Rosen filed a report on the incident that contained several misleading, or outright false, claims and significant factual omissions.

Cable news outlets have come under intense criticism over their coverage of the so-called “Knockout Game,” which some critics say is being overhyped, and others claim is ignoring a racial aspect to the crimes. The suspect in this case attempted to settle that debate, according to the Justice Department, by seeing “if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?”

“At least 25 times in the last two years, cowardly urban thugs have snuck up on innocent victims and knocked them unconscious with a single blow and fled the scene,” Rosen said, adding that this attack is the first to have been “charged by federal, and not local, authorities, and for the first time under a hate crime statute.”

Rosen is correct that this is the first of these recent attacks to be charged federally, but not the first to be charged under a hate crimes statute. It’s possible, though, that Rosen meant to extend the “federal” distinction to the statute.

He added that Barrett “made several videos in the cell phone where he identified himself and used a racial slur on African-Americans, and stated his intent to victimize a black man in this fashion in order to receive national media attention.”

Rosen failed to disclose, however, that the motive was not simply to gain media attention, but to test media reaction to a white attacker of a black victim. The DOJ quotes Barrett in one of those videos as saying “the plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?”

In an O’Reilly Factor segment just days before this attack, fill-in host Laura Ingraham similarly wondered to a panelist, “If this were overwhelmingly white teens, and they were going around all these cities across the United States, and they were cold-cocking elderly black people, would you be coming on The O’Reilly Factor and saying ‘I hate to generalize about quote bad behavior?’”

Rosen then discussed the hate crimes aspect of these crimes, displaying a graphic which read “Knockout Game: A Hate Crime?”

That graphic presents a misleading premise, as Barrett’s attack was charged as a hate crime not because it was a “knockout game” attack, but because the suspect explicitly said that he sought his victim on the basis of race. Additionally, one of the videos that Rosen presents as a “Knockout Game” attack, according to police, was not related to the “Knockout Game.”

Rosen reinforced that premise by noting that, “In many of the past cases, the perpetrators were black, and the victims were white, and often, in a series of recent attacks in New York City, Jewish. Many analysts believe those cases possessed clear intent on the part of the perpetrators to single out on the basis of race and religion, but hate crimes charges were never pursued in the previous cases.”

The last part of that statement, that “hate crimes charges were never pursued in the previous cases,” is completely false, an error compounded by the fact that Rosen specifically referenced the group of attacks that belie his claim. A November attack on a Jewish man, in New York City, did, in fact, result in a hate crimes charge against 28 year-old Amrit Marajh.

Additionally, Rosen failed to note that in many of the cases he referenced, hate crimes charges haven’t been pursued because the suspects are still at large, but police are investigating them as hate crimes and/or “Knockout Game” attacks. For example, the NYPD is investigating, as a hate crime, an attack on 22 year-old Taj Patterson, a gay black man. Rosen’s reporting gives the impression that attacks by black suspects on white victims are being treated differently, but the facts he omits, or gets wrong, paint a different picture. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-airs-inaccurate-report-on-media-fueled-
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Rose McGowan Comes to Aid of 'Knockout Game' Victim

Rose McGowan found herself in the role of real-life crime fighter after witnessing a random attack on a senior citizen.

The "Grindhouse" actress, 40, was enjoying the sunset with her pal and one-time reality TV star Courtenay Semel in Venice Beach, California, on Thursday afternoon and soon after she witnessed a man being randomly assaulted by a masked assailant riding a skateboard. After coming to his aid, McGowan documented the drama, which she described as a "Knockout Game" attack, on Twitter.

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I just witnessed a 65 year old man get punched by an evil guy playing that goddamn knockout game. #criminal #heartbroken #whattheF?!
9:23 PM - 2 Jan 2014

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Venice! Evil guy was wearing a mask RT @hideathfilms: @rosemcgowan no way! Here in Los Angeles? That's horrible.
9:25 PM - 2 Jan 2014


* He was on a skateboard. Too fast. I chased. RT @attitudemilo: @rosemcgowan even a pic of the masked coward ... http://tmi.me/1dfwwt
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