'Knockout' game takes violence to a new level

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http://www.examiner.com/article/knockout-game-takes-violence-to-a-new-level?cid=PROG-LifeDM-Article-KnockOutGame-112013-7.00am

November 17, 2013
It would be stretching it a bit to call "Knockout" a game, and news sources on Sunday apparently are in agreement. The action seems to involve trying to punch a victim in the head to render the person unconscious.

The game, played by young, male teenagers, some as young as 12 or 13-years old, involves coming up behind someone, and trying to knock them out with one punch. If they are unsuccessful, they will continue to beat on the victim until he or she is unconscious, or in some cases, dead.

There have been three deaths reported, the most recent one in New Jersey involved a man being hit in the head so hard his neck was broken. A 13 and a 14-year-old were charged in the man's murder.

In New York state, police are looking at attacks this week in predominately Jewish neighborhoods as "hate crimes." The most recent attack took place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, when a man walking alone was accosted by a group of 10 men who punched him and kept going.