The knockout game

[LeftofLeft]

Oh, look, everyone, the panic attack of the "Knockout game" is back.

Local media and police have used reports of 'knockout game' attacks to stoke panic for ages, experts say. It's happening again in New York.

Media reports of the so-called "knockout game" date back at least a decade and persist despite experts debunking it as not a coherent trend.

www.businessinsider.com

If the so-called "knockout game" may sound familiar, it's because tabloids and right-wing media over the years have repeatedly promoted the notion of young people engaged in a hyper-violent and widespread trend. The reality, as law enforcement officials and researchers have documented in the past, is that the "game" is largely an urban myth and buzzword that media have used as a catchall for random assaults.

Even after many have debunked the "trend" as mostly unrelated incidents with no connection to any online challenge or game, reports attributing the crimes to the "knockout game" have persisted. The phrase also has a racially-motivated history — often deployed to describe young Black people committing assaults on white people, and experts say it has been used to stoke moral panic and play into racist rhetoric.

There's currently no documented evidence that the 21-year-old suspect in New York this week was participating in a game when he allegedly struck the man, who survived the attack. And although various incarnations of individual challenges to commit assaults have existed over the years, these have always been rare and fringe activities compared with the media attention that they receive.

Fear surrounding variations of the purported "knockout game" have existed in some form since at least the 1990s, Chris Ferguson, a Professor of Psychology at Stetson University, told Insider.

Forgive US if we’d like to walk city streets and not have to worry about being randomly punched in the face or pushed onto subway tracks. You mock peoples’ concern over a rise in these incidents; even call US racist for expressing concern.

 

[The Duke]

Everybody carrying guns would put the brakes on that real quick.

 

[JoeB131]

Forgive US if we’d like to walk city streets and not have to worry about being randomly punched in the face or pushed onto subway tracks. You mock peoples’ concern over a rise in these incidents; even call US racist for expressing concern.

Um, yeah, I generally do, because we refuse to make the societal changes to reduce these incidents.

We have crime for five reasons.

Poverty
Addiction
Mental Illness
Racism
Gun Proliferation

We don't seem terribly keen on solving these problems, though.

So we all pretend to not see the homeless person on the street, avoid making eye contact, walk past them as quickly as possible.

And we all act shocked when one of them acts erratically.

 

[Hector12]

More like the lack of treatment for mental illness...

Crimes are not committed by people who are clinically depressed, or unrealistically afraid. The perp who did this is not mentally ill. He is evil. He does not deserve therapy. He deserves to have suffering inflicted on him.

 

[JoeB131]

Crimes are not committed by people who are clinically depressed, or unrealistically afraid. The perp who did this is not mentally ill. He is evil. He does not deserve therapy. He deserves to have suffering inflicted on him.

Again, spoken like a man who went to sleep last night with a full belly in a warm bed.

If you had to live on the street for a few weeks, we'd see how "uncivilized" you'd become, Cockroach.

 

[Hector12]

Um, yeah, I generally do, because we refuse to make the societal changes to reduce these incidents.

How much more welfare money do you want to be spent on those people? How much lower do you want standards to be for them so that equity is achieved?

Before the civil rights movement Negroes were afraid to behave this way. A black man who did something like this to a white woman might have kerosene poured on him and be burned to death. The white men who did this to him would not be arrested.

 

[Hector12]

Again, spoken like a man who went to sleep last night with a full belly in a warm bed.

If you had to live on the street for a few weeks, we'd see how "uncivilized" you'd become, Cockroach.

I have found homeless people to be safe. The perp who did this is a dangerous criminal. People like this run around loose becaue people like keep making excuses for them and letting them out of prison.

 

[Hector12]

Probably. He lists his address as the homeless shelter.

It should have been a slave labor camp, where he was worked to death to the whistle of a whip.

 

[DonGlock26]

Please read the article I posted in Post # 32.

Then have someone explain the big words to you.

There's a paywall. I was hoping rather than just posting a pay wall news article, you would explain this mass conspiracy of the mainstream media, the police, the courts, and elderly white, Jewish, and Asian racists who all conspire to entice black men to sucker punch these racists in public. As an aside, do you believe that the lunar landings really occurred?

 

[DonGlock26]

How is this the KO game? How is it not just a cowardly fool who just attacked a woman, would it be the KO game if the coward was white?

It could just be a racist attack by a black man on an unsuspecting white woman. He may not have known about the knockout game, but the knockout game is real.

 

[DonGlock26]

Did you just pull the picture of a random black man off the internet. You still haven't linked to any credible news story of this.

Downtown Dallas attack: Suspect arrested, charged with aggravated assault

Antonio Banks, 36, has been charged with aggravated assault in connection to an attack in Downtown Dallas that was caught on camera.

www.fox4news.com

 

[LeftofLeft]

Um, yeah, I generally do, because we refuse to make the societal changes to reduce these incidents.

We have crime for five reasons.

Poverty
Addiction
Mental Illness
Racism
Gun Proliferation

We don't seem terribly keen on solving these problems, though.

So we all pretend to not see the homeless person on the street, avoid making eye contact, walk past them as quickly as possible.

And we all act shocked when one of them acts erratically.

You seem keen on giving minorities a pass on personal accountability and social responsibility based on your five “reasons”. Let’s review:

Poverty - define what it means to live in poverty in the US. What are the numbers of people who don’t have a roof, running water, food, healthcare, even cell phones, internet and premium TV. Living in “poverty” in the United States is better than any other country.

Addiction - Addiction has been around since the beginning of time and will be through the end of time. In the current snapshot, you could help this part of your cause by supporting strict enforcement of border security to cut the flow of drugs from Central America.

Mental Illness - I’m all for help in improving mental illness as members of my family have been impacted by it. But as with my Family member and /or random people in the street with mental illness, that does not give them a pass on personal accountability.

Racism - this term has become so broad yet it is something that is not unique to US. It is racist to refuse service to a black family or group of black people. It is not racist to call out behavior of people who happen to be black. If the US was so racist, we wouldn’t be the top destination among immigrants. You want to see racism in its purest form? Check out the Middle East and Asia.

Gun Proliferation - guns have been proliferating since the passage of the 2nd Amendment in 1791. We didn’t have a problem with guns until 1965 when mass shootings as a form of mass violence began to accelerate to the levels we have today; guns are a means to commit that violence and they are also a means to deter it.

 

[DonGlock26]

Um, yeah, I generally do, because we refuse to make the societal changes to reduce these incidents.

We have crime for five reasons.

Poverty
Addiction
Mental Illness
Racism
Gun Proliferation

We don't seem terribly keen on solving these problems, though.

So we all pretend to not see the homeless person on the street, avoid making eye contact, walk past them as quickly as possible.

And we all act shocked when one of them acts erratically.

Which one of those five caused Stalin to order mass murders?

 

[DonGlock26]

Again, spoken like a man who went to sleep last night with a full belly in a warm bed.

If you had to live on the street for a few weeks, we'd see how "uncivilized" you'd become, Cockroach.

So homeless people have a license to commit crimes in your mind?

 

[JoeB131]

The knockout game is nearly always a hate crime committed by blacks against whites and Asians.

There is no knockout game. This was a mentally ill person acting out, not some kid playing a game. So you pretty much started out with a lie.

How much more welfare money do you want to be spent on those people? How much lower do you want standards to be for them so that equity is achieved?

It's not a matter of spending more, it's a matter of spending it smartly. I would have no problem replacing welfare with workfare and job training, for instance. Not sure if it's relevant in this case, this is a mentally ill man who should have been medicated.

Before the civil rights movement Negroes were afraid to behave this way. A black man who did something like this to a white woman might have kerosene poured on him and be burned to death. The white men who did this to him would not be arrested.

Yes, then we realized that was wrong and we charge people like that with hate crimes, where the black people we still throw in prison will give them a warm welcome. Heh, heh, heh..

I have found homeless people to be safe. The perp who did this is a dangerous criminal. People like this run around loose becaue people like keep making excuses for them and letting them out of prison.

Again, they really don't tell us what his previous offense was. The problem with the Prison-Industrial Complex is that it doesn't address mental illness. 60% of people in jails report a mental health issue, as opposed to 30% of the population at large.

It should have been a slave labor camp, where he was worked to death to the whistle of a whip.

Yes, yes, that mean black man hurt your feelings, so you are out for perpetual revenge.

 

[JoeB131]

So homeless people have a license to commit crimes in your mind?

No, just don't act all surprised when they do. I'm not.

 

[justoffal]

IQ2 will be along shortly to explain how that poor woman deserved that

You mean Talcum X? The middle aged white guy posing as African American?

 

[justoffal]

There is no knockout game. This was a mentally ill person acting out, not some kid playing a game. So you pretty much started out with a lie.

Come on dude .... If you don't know this statement is completely false then you must have fallen into some type of cognizant coma. There certainly is a knockout game and it's been going on for 2 to 3 years.

I would suggest that all people participating in it as predators are mentally ill.

 

[Hector12]

Downtown Dallas attack: Suspect arrested, charged with aggravated assault

Antonio Banks, 36, has been charged with aggravated assault in connection to an attack in Downtown Dallas that was caught on camera.

www.fox4news.com

Dallas police say Banks is currently in a Dallas County Jail on separate, unrelated charges.

On Monday afternoon, Banks was arrested for criminal trespassing at the UNT System building off Main Street. Banks was taken to jail, and on Tuesday, detectives matched his clothing and description to the assault suspect and obtained a warrant for aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury.

Jail records show Banks was on parole when this happened.

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Why did they keep letting the garbage out? He probably has a crime record going back to early adolescence.

 

[Hector12]

Come on dude .... If you don't know this statement is completely false then you must have fallen into some type of cognizant coma. There certainly is a knockout game and it's been going on for 2 to 3 years.

I would suggest that all people participating in it as predators are mentally ill.

They are not mentally ill. They are evil. The knockout game has been going on a lot longer than three years. It is nearly always committed by Negroes against whites and Asians. I doubt it was going on before the civil rights movement.