Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, points to the fact that the “knockout game” has racial underpinnings that the “mainstream media” has failed to describe. The game, which “has been played for years,” often targets Jews, “whites in general or people of Asian ancestry,” he said in an op-ed for the New York Post. He describes an attack in Milwaukee where attackers were heard saying, “White girl bleed a lot.” In Illinois, the game is often called “polar-bear hunting.”
Recently,
a series of attacks in Brooklyn, N.Y., saw teens targeting the Jewish community. The NYPD says there were separate incidents, including one caught on camera, where teens have targeted men dressed in traditional Jewish dress and punching them to the ground.
One man, who did not want to be identified, told CBS 2
his 12-year-old son was recently attacked. “One, full strength with his fist, whacked him, punched him, on the side of the face, full force,” the man said. Once knocked on the ground, the boy reportedly heard the group yell, “A hysterical, happy shout, ‘We got him,’” the man said.
On Nov. 10, a similar attack took place on a 19-year-old Jewish man. “He was actually holding an expensive camera. And they punched him and nothing was stolen,” Rabbi Yaacov Behrman said. The incident,
caught on surveillance footage, shows a man being knocked to the ground by a group of teens.
