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Unbelievable!? Of course this is racially motivated. Where are any of black people being assaulted in this sick "game" which BTW is a violent crime? Think about how much hate and anger is involved to motivate someone to do such a violent act against an innocent victim. Several people have been killed. So, why doesn't the national media show this to the extent of the Zimmerman case? Why is it, when a brown Hispanic man by the name of George Zimmerman is relentlessly punched and beaten by a much larger black young man, that the entire black community wants to castigate this as a racial crime, and insist that white people take the blame?
However, in this case with Knock-Out, you just chalk it up to some random act committed by a bunch of knuckle heads. This violent crime is being committed in many cities across this country, not just in Jersey.
Seems your beef is more with the media. Don't blame the black community for where the media places blame. I suspect there are also plenty black on black instances of this violent activity that the media isnt showing which helps make their stories all the more juicy!
Tiffany Thompson got her wish: Demetrius Murphy met the “Right Person” and he will not be playing the Knockout Game any more. Ever.A St. Louis homeowner shot Murphy dead late last week during a burglary. And a whole lot of people in St. Louis feel relieved, if not safer. Murphy was a member of a group that is credited with making the Knockout Game a St. Louis tradition, which then spread nationally. Missouri residents are protected by the Castle Doctrine which allows the use of deadly force against intruders -- a very good law.
The rules of the Knockout Game are simple: Begin with a bunch of black people. Anywhere from three to 30. Find a white person, but an Asian will do. Alone is important. Older is better. Weak and defenseless even more so. Without warning, punch that person in the face as hard as you can. You win if you score a Knockout. If not, keep punching until your arms and legs get too tired to continue. Or the person dies.
Over the last two years, hundreds of people around the country have become victims. Some say over 100 in St. Louis alone. Some died. Others, like Murphy’s victim Matt Quain, suffered broken bones in his face and jaw. Last week, four members of the national Championship Alabama football team were arrested after three played the game two times, and the fourth tried to use a debit card taken during the attacks. Most victims are robbed after they are assaulted and or killed.
Tiffany Thompson got her wish: Demetrius Murphy met the “Right Person” and he will not be playing the Knockout Game any more. Ever.A St. Louis homeowner shot Murphy dead late last week during a burglary. And a whole lot of people in St. Louis feel relieved, if not safer. Murphy was a member of a group that is credited with making the Knockout Game a St. Louis tradition, which then spread nationally. Missouri residents are protected by the Castle Doctrine which allows the use of deadly force against intruders -- a very good law.
The rules of the Knockout Game are simple: Begin with a bunch of black people. Anywhere from three to 30. Find a white person, but an Asian will do. Alone is important. Older is better. Weak and defenseless even more so. Without warning, punch that person in the face as hard as you can. You win if you score a Knockout. If not, keep punching until your arms and legs get too tired to continue. Or the person dies.
Over the last two years, hundreds of people around the country have become victims. Some say over 100 in St. Louis alone. Some died. Others, like Murphy’s victim Matt Quain, suffered broken bones in his face and jaw. Last week, four members of the national Championship Alabama football team were arrested after three played the game two times, and the fourth tried to use a debit card taken during the attacks. Most victims are robbed after they are assaulted and or killed.
I remember the summer of 2011, a story about a crowd of teenagers at the Wisconsin State Fair randomly attacking fairgoers went viral as a sign of a burgeoning race war. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel fanned the flames, calling the teenagers "rampaging youths" who caused "mob-like disturbances":
"Then around the closing time of 11 p.m., witnesses told the Journal Sentinel, dozens to hundreds of black youths attacked white people as they left the fair, punching and kicking people and shaking and pounding on their vehicles."
"Dozens to hundreds"? When witnesses can't differentiate between 24 and 100, should we really rely on them to speculate whether a crime was racially motivated? One of the reasons the story gained so much traction could have stemmed from the fact that Milwaukee is the most segregated city in the country, and it validated white residents' fear that their black neighbors are dangerous.
Now, the false trend story of black mob violence has cropped up again, as it seems to do annually, in conservative media outlets. (McKay Coppins wrote about this phenomenon in BuzzFeed last year.) The new scare is the "knockout game," in which black youths supposedly attack innocent people just for fun. Conservative pundits decry the MSM for suffering from political correctness and whitewashing crimes perpetrated by black people, but a more reasonable explanation for why most media outlets aren't devoting round-the-clock coverage to the knockout game is that—sorry, Sean Hannity—there is no hard data showing that it's a trend.
An important clarification: the game definitely exists, and has been around for at least a couple of years. I'm not claiming the game doesn't exist. But the idea that it's reached epidemic levels, or that it's only being played by young black people, is a fallacy. As Alan Noble convincingly writes, "Analyzing data is not as simple as watching some YouTube videos and Googling 'knockout game.'" And when it comes to the knockout game's supposed popularity, the data is almost entirely anecdotal:
Here’s the fascinating thing about this “spreading” trend: nobody seems to have any evidence that it’s spreading, or that it’s new, or that it’s racially motivated, or that black youths are the ones typically responsible, or that whites are typically targeted. This hasn’t stopped Mark Steyn, Thomas Sowell, and Matt Walsh from describing this specifically as a crime committed by blacks against whites, CNN from claiming that it is “spreading,” or Alec Torres at NRO from say it is “evidently increasing [in] popularity.”
This is precisely the type of story meant to animate the deepest recesses of our lizard brains—"Danger lurks around every corner! Identify your enemy!" At the epicenter of this narrative is Colin Flaherty, a writer for WorldNetDaily who probably has a Google alert set up for "black suspect." He's made it his life's work to report any single crime perpetrated by a black person in the U.S. against a white person. In a recent blog post, he lists as evidence six separate crimes in Philadelphia over the course of two years, which share nothing in similarity except for the fact that they involved black people.
Imagine if another national "journalist" started doing the same for, say, any crime committed in Alabama, or any arson charge in the country. People would start to think Alabama was going through a crime epidemic, or that arson was becoming all the rage with criminals. That would be ridiculous, because it's ridiculous to assume that a few unrelated counts of arson make arson an epidemic. But when you inject race into the equation, it conveniently aligns with the assumptions of people who happen to be racist. That's the sort of twisted logic that justifies why more than half of the U.S. prison population is made up by black and Hispanic people, even though they comprise a quarter of the total population.
Crime happens to every type of person, and is perpetrated by every type of person. What makes the false narrative of the knockout game—or any "black mob violence" story—crop up every year is the fact that some people will always believe the color of someone's skin predisposes him to commit a crime. When a few YouTube videos are able to convince terrified white folks that young black people are dangerous, they may as well assume that all cats can play the keyboard.
Tiffany Thompson got her wish: Demetrius Murphy met the “Right Person” and he will not be playing the Knockout Game any more. Ever.A St. Louis homeowner shot Murphy dead late last week during a burglary. And a whole lot of people in St. Louis feel relieved, if not safer. Murphy was a member of a group that is credited with making the Knockout Game a St. Louis tradition, which then spread nationally. Missouri residents are protected by the Castle Doctrine which allows the use of deadly force against intruders -- a very good law.
The rules of the Knockout Game are simple: Begin with a bunch of black people. Anywhere from three to 30. Find a white person, but an Asian will do. Alone is important. Older is better. Weak and defenseless even more so. Without warning, punch that person in the face as hard as you can. You win if you score a Knockout. If not, keep punching until your arms and legs get too tired to continue. Or the person dies.
Over the last two years, hundreds of people around the country have become victims. Some say over 100 in St. Louis alone. Some died. Others, like Murphy’s victim Matt Quain, suffered broken bones in his face and jaw. Last week, four members of the national Championship Alabama football team were arrested after three played the game two times, and the fourth tried to use a debit card taken during the attacks. Most victims are robbed after they are assaulted and or killed.
Now, the false trend story of black mob violence has cropped up again, as it seems to do annually, in conservative media outlets. (McKay Coppins wrote about this phenomenon in BuzzFeed last year.) The new scare is the "knockout game," in which black youths supposedly attack innocent people just for fun. Conservative pundits decry the MSM for suffering from political correctness and whitewashing crimes perpetrated by black people, but a more reasonable explanation for why most media outlets aren't devoting round-the-clock coverage to the knockout game is that—sorry, Sean Hannity—there is no hard data showing that it's a trend.
Ever see youtube? Ever read about any of the people assaulted, or killed? Are they making it up? The reason why media outlets don't devote any time to it, is because of the firestorm it would create. It's OK to devote time to a stupid story about some gun happy brown skinned Hispanic by the name of George Zimmerman because it gave the left wing liberal media that warm and fuzzy feeling. There were hundreds of stories more important than the Zimmerman case. The media latched onto that Jewish sounding name, and before anyone knew it, this was supposedly white on black crime. Also, funny how people ignored all the graphic pics of his injuries, and showed this innocent, cute and cuddly black kid with that infectious smile. The stand your ground law definitely correlates to the knockout game. Imagine, if victims could fight back the way Jorge, hmmm.....oh, I mean George did? Oh, and did you notice with some of the media how it glazed over the white folks being attacked after the Zimmerman verdict? Not sure how old you are, but does the name Reginald Denny mean anything to you? An innocent guy dragged out of his car and beaten nearly to death because he was white, and the attackers didn't like Rodney King verdict. This was happening all over the country.
Really, with the "conservative news" BS? I've read/seen this on all NYC news stations and even international ones. They all said the same stuff. Same stories.
.... Demetrius Murphy met the “Right Person” and he will not be playing the Knockout Game any more. Ever.A St. Louis homeowner shot Murphy dead late last week during a burglary......]
Double Karma, it looks like Demetrius' fellow homie is being charged with his murder
I know you are saying this sarcasticly. No, no ones advocating this. But I sure do hope someone that gets assaulted for doing nothing wrong walking down the block turns around a blows the thugs head off with a 44 magnum(dirty harry). Maybe than and only than the thugs, criminals or whatever you want to call them will stop playing the"game". If I was on the jury and someone shot 3 or 4 of these thugs my verdict is innocent.
I'm also just saying that the media(and America) didn't care if the victims were black,but all of a sudden people care because most of the victims are white.
That's my opinion,yours may differ.
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