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Knockout game.
Knockout, also known as the knockout game, knockout king, bombing,[1][2] polar-bearing, and polar-bear hunting,[3][4][5] is an alleged violent activity performed by sucker punching or beating up an unsuspecting passerby.[6] Serious injuries and deaths have been attributed to knockout.
While in the United States, such attacks have received elevated news coverage in late 2013, such assaults have not been a recent invention.[7] The earliest reference to the "knockout game" comes from the 1992 murder of Yngve Raustein at the hands of Cambridge, Massachusetts area teenagers, who were heard talking about the game following the assault and murder.[8] A similar series of attacks were perpetrated by a British teenager in mid 2013, although the game in question was referred to as a "bomb" and also received news coverage in late 2013.[1][2] The game has also been compared to "Happy slapping", a fad originating in the UK in the mid-2000s in which one or more people attack a victim for the purpose of recording the assault. [9]
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1 Response
2 Deaths attributed to knockout
3 Serious injuries attributed to knockout
4 References
Response
The "game" is of questionable status ranging from an urban myth, random unprovoked acts of aggression to an actual game. Police in in Syracuse, New York, reported that one assailant in a fatal attack admitted to it being "knockout", with a police sergeant noting that the assaults he was investigating were definitely "for a game" rather than being attempted murders or robberies.[7] On November 23, 2013, The New York Times reported that police officials in New York City were considering their position on the "game" and if they should advise the public, but had to contend with the uncertain existence of the game.[7] An analyst at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice's Research and Evaluation Center stated that the knockout game is likely being seen "through the lens of race" and that the fear stems from racial roots.[7] The racial aspect was heightened with several attacks on Jewish victims in Brooklyn in 2013, with some being called anti-Semitic hate crimes.[3][4][5] The suspect in the November 2013 Brooklyn attack, a 28 year old male, was subsequently charged with a hate crime, which has potential to greatly increase consequences over a charge of simple assault. [10]
Deaths attributed to knockout
September 10, 2013 (Hoboken, New Jersey): Three teenage boys aged 13 to 14 are charged with the murder of 46-year-old disabled homeless man Ralph Santiago.[11] He was found with his head wedged between two posts in an iron fence and his neck broken.[12]
June 14, 2013 (Bolton, Greater Manchester, England): 43-year-old Simon Mitchell is killed when 17-year-old Eden Lomax punches the man in order to knock him out, referring to the act as a "bomb"; this followed other "bomb" attacks by the youth.[1][2]
May 23, 2013 (Syracuse, New York): 51-year-old Michael Daniels dies a day after being attacked.[13] A 16-year-old was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of manslaughter, and a 13-year-old was sentenced to the same term after pleading guilty to assault.[14]
September 20, 2012 (St. Cloud, Minnesota): 20 year-old local college student Colton Ryan Gleason died from hist injuries after being punched in the head by a 17 year-old teenager.[15][16]
April 16, 2011 (St. Louis, Missouri): 72 year-old Hoang Nguyen was killed after being punched in the head by an 18 year-old local teenager.[17][18] Nguyen's assailant was sentenced to 55 years in prison.[19]
September 18, 1992 (Cambridge, Massachusetts): 21 year-old MIT student Yngve Raustein, of Norway, died after being punched in the face and stabbed in the heart by local teenagers.[8]
Serious injuries attributed to knockout
2013 (Lansing, Michigan): 17-year-old Marvell Weaver was shot twice in the buttocks after punching a man armed with a .40 caliber pistol. Weaver, who was not seriously injured, was sentenced to one year in jail.[20]
Knockout, also known as the knockout game, knockout king, bombing,[1][2] polar-bearing, and polar-bear hunting,[3][4][5] is an alleged violent activity performed by sucker punching or beating up an unsuspecting passerby.[6] Serious injuries and deaths have been attributed to knockout.
While in the United States, such attacks have received elevated news coverage in late 2013, such assaults have not been a recent invention.[7] The earliest reference to the "knockout game" comes from the 1992 murder of Yngve Raustein at the hands of Cambridge, Massachusetts area teenagers, who were heard talking about the game following the assault and murder.[8] A similar series of attacks were perpetrated by a British teenager in mid 2013, although the game in question was referred to as a "bomb" and also received news coverage in late 2013.[1][2] The game has also been compared to "Happy slapping", a fad originating in the UK in the mid-2000s in which one or more people attack a victim for the purpose of recording the assault. [9]
Contents [hide]
1 Response
2 Deaths attributed to knockout
3 Serious injuries attributed to knockout
4 References
Response
The "game" is of questionable status ranging from an urban myth, random unprovoked acts of aggression to an actual game. Police in in Syracuse, New York, reported that one assailant in a fatal attack admitted to it being "knockout", with a police sergeant noting that the assaults he was investigating were definitely "for a game" rather than being attempted murders or robberies.[7] On November 23, 2013, The New York Times reported that police officials in New York City were considering their position on the "game" and if they should advise the public, but had to contend with the uncertain existence of the game.[7] An analyst at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice's Research and Evaluation Center stated that the knockout game is likely being seen "through the lens of race" and that the fear stems from racial roots.[7] The racial aspect was heightened with several attacks on Jewish victims in Brooklyn in 2013, with some being called anti-Semitic hate crimes.[3][4][5] The suspect in the November 2013 Brooklyn attack, a 28 year old male, was subsequently charged with a hate crime, which has potential to greatly increase consequences over a charge of simple assault. [10]
Deaths attributed to knockout
September 10, 2013 (Hoboken, New Jersey): Three teenage boys aged 13 to 14 are charged with the murder of 46-year-old disabled homeless man Ralph Santiago.[11] He was found with his head wedged between two posts in an iron fence and his neck broken.[12]
June 14, 2013 (Bolton, Greater Manchester, England): 43-year-old Simon Mitchell is killed when 17-year-old Eden Lomax punches the man in order to knock him out, referring to the act as a "bomb"; this followed other "bomb" attacks by the youth.[1][2]
May 23, 2013 (Syracuse, New York): 51-year-old Michael Daniels dies a day after being attacked.[13] A 16-year-old was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being found guilty of manslaughter, and a 13-year-old was sentenced to the same term after pleading guilty to assault.[14]
September 20, 2012 (St. Cloud, Minnesota): 20 year-old local college student Colton Ryan Gleason died from hist injuries after being punched in the head by a 17 year-old teenager.[15][16]
April 16, 2011 (St. Louis, Missouri): 72 year-old Hoang Nguyen was killed after being punched in the head by an 18 year-old local teenager.[17][18] Nguyen's assailant was sentenced to 55 years in prison.[19]
September 18, 1992 (Cambridge, Massachusetts): 21 year-old MIT student Yngve Raustein, of Norway, died after being punched in the face and stabbed in the heart by local teenagers.[8]
Serious injuries attributed to knockout
2013 (Lansing, Michigan): 17-year-old Marvell Weaver was shot twice in the buttocks after punching a man armed with a .40 caliber pistol. Weaver, who was not seriously injured, was sentenced to one year in jail.[20]
