LF: New Jersey police investigating disturbing 'knockout game' punch after video goes viral on Facebook

Title: New Jersey police investigating disturbing 'knockout game' punch after video goes viral on Facebook
Source: Daily Mail Online
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... rbing-knockout-game-video.html
Published: Feb 6, 2016
Author: Anneta Konstantinides For Dailymail.com
Post Date: 2016-02-07 09:33:23 by cranky
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New Jersey police are investigating a disturbing viral video that shows a boy punching an unsuspecting older man on the street - and trying to find the teens behind it.

The video, which was uploaded on Facebook and has appeared on multiple social media sites, shows a boy who looks to be a teenager walking toward the old man.

A girl can be heard off-screen screams 'Don't hit him!' while another boy behind the camera yells 'Knock him out, knock him out!'

New Jersey police are investigating a disturbing viral video that shows a boy punching an unsuspecting older man on the street - and trying to find the teens behind it

The boy, who is significantly taller than the elderly man, briefly says something to him before he revs up his arm and punches the man right in the face.

It's so forceful the impact throws the man into the pavement and seems to knock him unconscious, with part of his body hanging off the sidewalk and into the street as the boy is seen walking away.

The video seems to be inspired by the 'knockout game', which has someone sucker punch an unsuspecting victim for their own amusement.

A string of attacks credited to the knockout game led to multiple deaths in 2013.

The video, which was uploaded on Facebook and has appeared on multiple social media sites, at first shows a boy who looks to be a teenager walking toward the old man before he briefly says something to him

The video seems to be inspired by the 'knockout game', which has someone sucker punch an unsuspecting victim for their own amusement

Paterson Police Director Jerry Speziale said the department is currently looking into where and when the video was taped, as well as the identities of the perpetrators and victim.

‘Once that is determined we will take swift and decisive action as we will not tolerate that kind of behavior in our city,' he said in a filmed statement posted on the department's Facebook.

Speziale said the video, which has since been taken down from Facebook, was first brought to the police's attention by a media outlet that had come across it on social media, he told The Record.

The condition of the victim seen in the video is unknown.

A happy ending would be if the son, or relative of the victim, played the " blow out game ".

If the victim had been my dad, grandfather, uncle, etc, etc. That is what I would do. The people there should adopt the policy: If they take out one of ours, we take out 10 of theirs. Then, maybe they will go back to " midnight basketball ", etc, and start acting civilized for a change.

"They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way!"
-- The Untouchables