Knockout Game => Hate Crime

[thurst]

'Knockout game' attack leads to hate crime charge

HOUSTON (AP) — A white Houston-area man was arrested Thursday on federal hate crimes charges for allegedly shooting video of himself sucker-punching a 79-year-old black man in a “knockout game”-style attack.

Conrad Alvin Barrett, 27, made a brief appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Frances Stacy, who scheduled a detention hearing for the Katy man on Friday.

According to prosecutors, the attack happened Nov. 24 in Katy, but it wasn’t until 12 days later that authorities connected the attack to the cellphone video of it.

Authorities learned of the case because Barrett allegedly showed the video on the night of the attack to an off-duty arson investigator he had just met at a restaurant in nearby Folshear. According to the criminal complaint, Barrett asked the off-duty investigator and the woman with the investigator if they knew about the knockout game. He told them he played earlier that day, then showed them the video, prosecutors allege.

The investigator then flagged down a uniformed officer across the street and led him to Barrett.

The attack video doesn’t show Barrett’s face, but investigators matched his voice to the voice in the video and the couple at the restaurant told investigators that Barrett was wearing the same shorts and shoes at the person who shot the video.

According to prosecutors, the video shows Barrett approach the victim and ask, “How’s it going, man?” A “loud smack” is then heard, the victim falls to the ground, Barrett laughs and says, “Knockout.” The assailant then flees in his vehicle.

The victim lost three teeth and needed surgery to repair his jaw, which had been broken in two places. He was hospitalized for more than four days, authorities said.

Investigators retrieved other videos from Barrett’s phone, including some in which he uses racial epithets and talks about trying to work up the courage to play the knockout game, the complaint states. In one, Barrett says: “That plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?”

U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson said Thursday that such crimes won’t be tolerated.

“Evidence of hate crimes will be vigorously investigated and prosecuted with the assistance of all our partners to the fullest extent of the law,” Magidson said.

Barrett’s attorney, George Parnham, said Barrett has bipolar disorder and has been prescribed heavy medications to treat it. He said Barrett’s family “feels horribly sympathetic” for the person who was attacked.

“When you start peeling back the layers of the onion and look at the mindset behind the action you soon realize there’s a mental issue,” said Parnham, who added that he’s trying to gather as much information about Barrett’s mental health as possible.

If convicted of the hate crime charge, Barrett could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and fined up to $250,000.

i can’t wait for the dormant racists to start crying about all the black kids that punched white people and had “nothing” happen to them.

[Don_Barracuda]

Theres a thread already, I’m sure you’ve posted in it as well

Edit:

New "game" the kids are playing in jersey; Knockout!

http://www.kisscleveland.com/pages/java.html?article=11815092 in this case the “game” is to randomly assault some innocent stranger without any provocation or warning as viciously as you can… not to come off as a racist here, but this video sure gives the impression that this “game” is played predominantly by african-americans with their victims being white almost each time. Should incidents like these be classified as a hate crime? Imo i think they should.

[Missing_Person]

Oh, so now that it’s white on black it’s a hate crime…

[Keepin_em_Honest]

Not gonna lie, I played this game in the mid 90s and late 2000s and we called it, “Point a Nigga out, knock a nigga out!”. That said, at least we walked around the hood and did the shit on people we knew, or at least, kinda knew.

That said, still pretty ashamed of myself for that shit.

[FuneralMoon]

I can respect you’re an honest scumbag

[thurst]

Oh, so now that it’s white on black it’s a hate crime…

just as intended

[WTF-AKUMA-HAX]

Knockout Crime = Hate Game

[Raz0r]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/26/knockout-game-attack-leads-to-hate-crime-charge/4214133/

i can’t wait for the dormant racists to start crying about all the black kids that punched white people and had “nothing” happen to them.

It’s racist now to point out the obvious racial double standard?

[Shadow_Ace]

lol at people thinking that other races would not try this

thread will get locked tho

[Valaris]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/26/knockout-game-attack-leads-to-hate-crime-charge/4214133/

i can’t wait for the dormant racists to start crying about all the black kids that punched white people and had “nothing” happen to them.

It’s racist now to point out the obvious racial double standard?

Every thread about this I’ve seen on reddit, here, news articles has pointed out the double standard.

[Raz0r]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/26/knockout-game-attack-leads-to-hate-crime-charge/4214133/

i can’t wait for the dormant racists to start crying about all the black kids that punched white people and had “nothing” happen to them.

It’s racist now to point out the obvious racial double standard?

Every thread about this I’ve seen on reddit, here, news articles has pointed out the double standard.

And why shouldn’t it be pointed out?

The thread wasn’t even created before the knee-jerk “if you point out a double standard you’re a racist” accusation was already made. It’s stupid.

[Valaris]

Oh I’m not saying it shouldn’t be pointed out. You asked if it was racist to point it out, I just said it’s already been done plenty so I don’t see the problem with pointing it out.

[thurst]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/26/knockout-game-attack-leads-to-hate-crime-charge/4214133/

i can’t wait for the dormant racists to start crying about all the black kids that punched white people and had “nothing” happen to them.

It’s racist now to point out the obvious racial double standard?

there isn’t a double standard, just an especially dumb criminal. if he doesn’t show his video to a random stranger then he (unfortunately) gets away with his crime, but he does and is justly punished. the clip of him saying that he’s “gonna knock out the first black guy” he sees and netting himself (potentially) an extra 5 years in prison just makes it all the more hilarious.

but for the record, i’m against the concept of “hate crimes” being worse than regular crimes.

[thurst]

oh and why would “pointing that out” be a racist reaction? because any reaction eschews “haha piece of shit got what he deserves!” for “b-b-but if he was black…” is inherently stupid (assuming you read the story) and rooted in racism.

[Raz0r]

Anyone of any race, nationality, or creed who looks for someone of a particular whatever to inflict harm should be charged with a hate crime. I don’t care what this country did to you in the past, get over it and suck up the punishment you earned.

This is related to similar crimes committed by an ethnic group that were not met with the same punishment. Saying “Well, he got this because he’s white and they didn’t because they are balck” is fine when the same crime is not met with the same punishment.

[thurst]

do you doubt that a black guy that showed a video of himself clocking an old white man to an investigator (with a policemen nearby) would’ve been arrested? do you also doubt that if that same black guy also had a video of himself saying “i’mma knock out the first cracker i see!”, he’d be charged with a hate crime?

if you seriously doubt both of those things, i’d say you’re retarded BUT i’d see why you believe there’s a double standard. i don’t believe you honestly doubt either of those things much less both, so crying about a double standard implies that race matters.

[sikwidit]

Shut the very fuck up because that is not how the judicial system works in the first place. A lot mor black people are locked up and for longer periods of time than other races for the same crime.

They are cracking down on anyone doing this knockout game. They said they found other videos of him using racial slurs so they said we can tack this on as well.

In the other instances of the knockout game they did not have the same proof of using racial slurs or they would have tacked that on as well.

They need to tack as much stuff on legally as possible to anyone playing this damn game to try and persuade people from playing it.

[Raz0r]

do you doubt that a black guy that showed a video of himself clocking an old white man to an investigator (with a policemen nearby) would’ve been arrested? do you also doubt that if that same black guy also had a video of himself saying “i’mma knock out the first cracker i see!”, he’d be charged with a hate crime?

if you seriously doubt both of those things, i’d say you’re retarded BUT i’d see why you believe there’s a double standard. i don’t believe you honestly doubt either of those things much less both, so crying about a double standard implies that race matters.

Shut the very fuck up because that is not how the judicial system works in the first place. A lot mor black people are locked up and for longer periods of time than other races for the same crime.

They are cracking down on anyone doing this knockout game. They said they found other videos of him using racial slurs so they said we can tack this on as well.

In the other instances of the knockout game they did not have the same proof of using racial slurs or they would have tacked that on as well.

They need to tack as much stuff on legally as possible to anyone playing this damn game to try and persuade people from playing it.

http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-2012-hate-crime-statistics

If you’re black and you commit a crime against a white guy, you’re less likely to get charged for a hate crime than if you are a white man committing a crime against a black guy. Them numbers don’t lie.

As for @thurst, I do believe the black guy would be charged with a crime but not a hate crime even if he used racial slurs against white people. But I also hate that using slurs before a crime means you should be charged with a hate crime in a separate offense. If you call some black guy a porch monkey in one video and another you’re seen assaulting another black man, it does not prove you willingly picked him out because of his race. How many of us have said racist shit and gone on to fight another ethnic person without the basis of it being race?

As for @sikwidit, I think you’re a dumb fuck so I don’t really care what you have to say.

[sikwidit]

That’s ok I think you are waste of life and suggest that you end it like that guy you admired so much that no one remembers.

[Raz0r]

No one remembers Ernest Hemingway?