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Good local news story in Lasing Michigan about 'Yout' who tried the "knock out" game w/ a taser and got his ass shot. Video is good in this story.
A game called "Point-em-out, Knock-em-out" has made its way to Lansing, and it's exactly how it sounds. The game consists of someone being randomly targeted, then attacked.
It's a game that has been growing with popularity on the internet, with teenagers filming themselves punching unsuspecting victims. Lansing had its first case of the game brought to light this summer, but it's possible that it has been happening under the radar for months.
On February 26th a man waiting for his six-year-old daughter to be dropped off from school, had no idea he would be the city's first reported victim.
"I saw the van circle twice, and the second time three kids came out. I didn't suspect anything. I hadn't any enemies, or any reason to believe they would be looking to do anything to me." The victim was attacked by 17-year-old Marvell Weaver. But Weaver did more than try to knock his victim out, he tried to do it with a taser. Luckily for the victim, the taser didn't work and he was able to protect himself with his concealed-carry .40 caliber pistol.
"He shoved something into my side. I wasn't sure what it was. It had some force to it. I wasn't sure if it was a knife or a gun," said the victim.
Weaver was shot twice, in the leg and an inch away from his spine. He's been sentenced to a year in jail for the attack, but he admits he's getting off easy.
"It was just a lesson learned. I wish I hadn't played the game at all," said Weaver.
But Weaver say's this wasn't the first time he'd played it. Before he was caught, he and his friends had attacked random people on several occasions.
"Not many, six or seven. It wouldn't be an every day game, just a certain game to be played on certain days. You don't even try to rob them or anything. That's the game," said Weaver.
Sorry no sympathy for the kid. Since I first heard about this stunt in sheer stupidity I was wondering when a story like this would show up.
"Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students" - Robin Williams "You see this? This... is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington." - Ash Williams
There was a 60 year old lady earlier this week in Montgomery AL that was attacked and shot two of the attackers. Oh how I can already hear Al and Jessie already. These poor kids were just playing a game.
Lights wrote:There was a 60 year old lady earlier this week in Montgomery AL that was attacked and shot two of the attackers. Oh how I can already hear Al and Jessie already. These poor kids were just playing a game.
Yes, a different version of the game Russian roulette and the kids lost....
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result”. - Winston Churchill
Why is this NOT being reported as racial violence??? The vast majority of these attacks that I have seen reported are blacks assaulting non-blacks. Why the double standard? Reverse the color of the criminals and victims and you would have every MSM outlet screaming "racial violence"!!! The silence is deafening!
Makarov wrote:Why is this NOT being reported as racial violence??? The vast majority of these attacks that I have seen reported are blacks assaulting non-blacks. Why the double standard? Reverse the color of the criminals and victims and you would have every MSM outlet screaming "racial violence"!!! The silence is deafening!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I'm sure every generation says this, but what is going on with the kids these days. How is that fun and how bored do you have to be for this to occur to you and how unconcerned do you have to be with the consequences. Are we looking at an entire generation of Sociopaths? Is this the video game generation that doesn't connect the dots on real consequences for real actions as opposed to hitting the reset button and grabbing another redbull?
I've chosen not to have kids, but wondered if any of you who do have kids have seen the difference in thier kids or grandkids.
I also agree that the lack of media attention to the racial make up of victim/predator smells highly of Political Correctness. You aren't hearing about it nearly enough.
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yukonjasper wrote:Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I'm sure every generation says this, but what is going on with the kids these days. How is that fun and how bored do you have to be for this to occur to you and how unconcerned do you have to be with the consequences. Are we looking at an entire generation of Sociopaths? Is this the video game generation that doesn't connect the dots on real consequences for real actions as opposed to hitting the reset button and grabbing another redbull?
I've chosen not to have kids, but wondered if any of you who do have kids have seen the difference in thier kids or grandkids.
I also agree that the lack of media attention to the racial make up of victim/predator smells highly of Political Correctness. You aren't hearing about it nearly enough.
The patterns of behavior seen today were predicted 20+ years ago, before the (social) sciences were muzzled by political correctness. While not specifically foreseeing the 'knock-out(aka:polar-bear)' game… the proliferation and evolution of 'welfare programs' that were both the cause and effect of young-aged, single parent families, which were becoming more prevalent among black/ African-American populations, were seen leading to a significant contingency of uneducated, unsocialized, violent male youths. There is a similar impact on 'white' populations, but given the higher percentage of black, inner-city populations associated with public assistance, and a more dispersed white population, there is a synergistic effect and toll on blacks.
As to the current day media's behavior, I don't doubt that history will (continue to ) record 'journalistic' behavior on this and similar topics, as the craft's darkest and most shameful hours.
On a highly related note:
As often he has, Dr Bill Cosby nails it, again.
The "Pound Cake" Speech Dr Bill Cosby's Address at the NAACP' on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education delivered 17 May 2004, Constitution Hall, Washington D.C.
Ladies and gentlemen, I really have to ask you to seriously consider what you’ve heard, and now this is the end of the evening so to speak. I heard a prize fight manager say to his fellow who was losing badly, “David, listen to me. It’s not what’s he’s doing to you. It’s what you’re not doing."
Ladies and gentlemen, these people set -- they opened the doors, they gave us the right, and today, ladies and gentlemen, in our cities and public schools we have 50% drop out. In our own neighborhood, we have men in prison. No longer is a person embarrassed because they’re pregnant without a husband. No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child.
Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye. And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had one and where you got it from. Parents don’t know that today.
I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? Where were you when he was twelve? Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you don’t know he had a pistol? And where is his father, and why don’t you know where he is? And why doesn’t the father show up to talk to this boy?
The church is only open on Sunday. And you can’t keep asking Jesus to ask doing things for you. You can’t keep asking that God will find a way. God is tired of you. God was there when they won all those cases -- fifty in a row. That’s where God was because these people were doing something. And God said, “I’m going to find a way.” I wasn’t there when God said it -- I’m making this up. But it sounds like what God would do.
We cannot blame white people. White people -- White people don’t live over there. They close up the shop early. The Korean ones still don’t know us as well -- they stay open 24 hours.
I’m looking and I see a man named Kenneth Clark, he and his wife Mamie. Kenneth’s still alive. I have to apologize to him for these people because Kenneth said it straight. He said you have to strengthen yourselves, and we’ve got to have that black doll. And everybody said it. Julian Bond said it. Dick Gregory said it. All these lawyers said it. And you wouldn’t know that anybody had done a damned thing.
Fifty percent drop out rate, I’m telling you, and people in jail, and women having children by five, six different men. Under what excuse? I want somebody to love me. And as soon as you have it, you forget to parent. Grandmother, mother, and great grandmother in the same room, raising children, and the child knows nothing about love or respect of any one of the three of them. All this child knows is “gimme, gimme, gimme.” These people want to buy the friendship of a child, and the child couldn’t care less. Those of us sitting out here who have gone on to some college or whatever we’ve done, we still fear our parents. And these people are not parenting. They’re buying things for the kid -- $500 sneakers -- for what? They won’t buy or spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics.
Kenneth Clark, somewhere in his home in upstate New York -- just looking ahead. Thank God he doesn’t know what’s going on. Thank God. But these people -- the ones up here in the balcony fought so hard. Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged: “The cops shouldn’t have shot him.” What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else. And I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said if you get caught with it you’re going to embarrass your mother." Not, "You’re going to get your butt kicked." No. "You’re going to embarrass your mother." "You’re going to embarrass your family." If you knock that girl up, you’re going to have to run away because it’s going to be too embarrassing for your family. In the old days, a girl getting pregnant had to go down South, and then her mother would go down to get her. But the mother had the baby. I said the mother had the baby. The girl didn’t have a baby. The mother had the baby in two weeks. We are not parenting.
Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people. They are showing you what’s wrong. People putting their clothes on backwards. Isn’t that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn’t that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn’t it a sign of something when she’s got her dress all the way up to the crack -- and got all kinds of needles and things going through her body. What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don’t know a damned thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed and all that crap and all of them are in jail. (When we give these kinds names to our children, we give them the strength and inspiration in the meaning of those names. What’s the point of giving them strong names if there is not parenting and values backing it up).
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We’ve got to take the neighborhood back. We’ve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It’s right around the corner. It’s standing on the corner. It can’t speak English. It doesn’t want to speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: “Why you ain’t where you is go ra?” I don’t know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t land a plane with, “Why you ain’t…” You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they’re moving ahead on this. Well, they know they’re not; they’re just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you’re just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.
Now, look, I’m telling you. It’s not what they’re doing to us. It’s what we’re not doing. 50 percent drop out. Look, we’re raising our own ingrown immigrants. These people are fighting hard to be ignorant. There’s no English being spoken, and they’re walking and they’re angry. Oh God, they’re angry and they have pistols and they shoot and they do stupid things. And after they kill somebody, they don’t have a plan. Just murder somebody. Boom. Over what? A pizza? And then run to the poor cousin’s house.
They sit there and the cousin says, “What are you doing here?”
“I just killed somebody, man.”
“What?”
“I just killed somebody; I’ve got to stay here.”
“No, you don’t.”
“Well, give me some money, I’ll go….”
“Where are you going?”
“North Carolina.”
Everybody wanted to go to North Carolina. But the police know where you’re going because your cousin has a record.
Five or six different children -- same woman, eight, ten different husbands or whatever. Pretty soon you’re going to have to have DNA cards so you can tell who you’re making love to. You don’t who this is. It might be your grandmother. I’m telling you, they’re young enough. Hey, you have a baby when you’re twelve. Your baby turns thirteen and has a baby, how old are you? Huh? Grandmother. By the time you’re twelve, you could have sex with your grandmother, you keep those numbers coming. I’m just predicting.
I’m saying Brown versus the Board of Education. We’ve got to hit the streets, ladies and gentlemen. I’m winding up, now -- no more applause. I’m saying, look at the Black Muslims. There are Black Muslims standing on the street corners and they say so forth and so on, and we’re laughing at them because they have bean pies and all that, but you don’t read, “Black Muslim gunned down while chastising drug dealer.” You don’t read that. They don’t shoot down Black Muslims. You understand me. Muslims tell you to get out of the neighborhood. When you want to clear your neighborhood out, first thing you do is go get the Black Muslims, bean pies and all. And your neighborhood is then clear. The police can’t do it.
I’m telling you Christians, what’s wrong with you? Why can’t you hit the streets? Why can’t you clean it out yourselves? It’s our time now, ladies and gentlemen. It is our time. And I’ve got good news for you. It’s not about money. It’s about you doing something ordinarily that we do -- get in somebody else’s business. It’s time for you to not accept the language that these people are speaking, which will take them nowhere. What the hell good is Brown v. Board of Education if nobody wants it?
What is it with young girls getting after some girl who wants to still remain a virgin. Who are these sick black people and where did they come from and why haven’t they been parented to shut up? To go up to girls and try to get a club where “you are nobody....” This is a sickness, ladies and gentlemen, and we are not paying attention to these children. These are children. They don’t know anything. They don’t have anything. They’re homeless people. All they know how to do is beg. And you give it to them, trying to win their friendship. And what are they good for? And then they stand there in an orange suit and you drop to your knees: “He didn’t do anything. He didn’t do anything.” Yes, he did do it. And you need to have an orange suit on, too.
So, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for the award -- and giving me an opportunity to speak because, I mean, this is the future, and all of these people who lined up and done -- they’ve got to be wondering what the hell happened. Brown V. Board of Education -- these people who marched and were hit in the face with rocks and punched in the face to get an education and we got these knuckleheads walking around who don’t want to learn English. I know that you all know it. I just want to get you as angry that you ought to be. When you walk around the neighborhood and you see this stuff, that stuff’s not funny. These people are not funny anymore. And that‘s not my brother. And that’s not my sister. They’re faking and they’re dragging me way down because the state, the city, and all these people have to pick up the tab on them because they don’t want to accept that they have to study to get an education.
We have to begin to build in the neighborhood, have restaurants, have cleaners, have pharmacies, have real estate, have medical buildings instead of trying to rob them all. And so, ladies and gentlemen, please, Dorothy Height, where ever she’s sitting, she didn’t do all that stuff so that she could hear somebody say “I can’t stand algebra, I can’t stand…" and “what you is.” It’s horrible.
Basketball players -- multimillionaires can’t write a paragraph. Football players, multimillionaires, can’t read. Yes. Multimillionaires. Well, Brown v. Board of Education, where are we today? It’s there. They paved the way. What did we do with it? The White Man, he’s laughing -- got to be laughing. 50 percent drop out -- rest of them in prison.
You got to tell me that if there was parenting -- help me -- if there was parenting, he wouldn’t have picked up the Coca Cola bottle and walked out with it to get shot in the back of the head. He wouldn’t have. Not if he loved his parents. And not if they were parenting! Not if the father would come home. Not if the boy hadn’t dropped the sperm cell inside of the girl and the girl had said, “No, you have to come back here and be the father of this child.” Not ..“I don’t have to.”
Therefore, you have the pile up of these sweet beautiful things born by nature -- raised by no one. Give them presents. You’re raising pimps. That’s what a pimp is. A pimp will act nasty to you so you have to go out and get them something. And then you bring it back and maybe he or she hugs you. And that’s why pimp is so famous. They’ve got a drink called the “Pimp-something.” You all wonder what that’s about, don’t you? Well, you’re probably going to let Jesus figure it out for you. Well, I’ve got something to tell you about Jesus. When you go to the church, look at the stained glass things of Jesus. Look at them. Is Jesus smiling? Not in one picture. So, tell your friends. Let’s try to do something. Let’s try to make Jesus smile. Let’s start parenting. Thank you, thank you.
I seen on the news this morning one of the cases the perpetrator was going to be charged with a hate crime. The victim was Jewish. On the news story they were talking about all the incidents but didn't mention a word about the Michigan case.
Juvenile Powderhorn Park Rapist Flees Supervision Suspect in Powderhorn assaults on the lam
One of four juveniles arrested in connection with sexual assaults severed his ankle monitoring bracelet and ran off.
A juvenile suspect associated with last month's sexual assaults in or near Minneapolis' Powderhorn Park is on the loose after severing his ankle bracelet and fleeing a home in south Minneapolis this week, police and corrections officials said Friday.
The Hennepin County Violent Offender Task Force is searching the metro area for the boy, who has not been publicly named because he is a juvenile, according to sheriff's inspector Kip Carver.
Tom Merkel, director of Hennepin County Community Corrections, saidthe suspect had been staying at his grandmother's house in south Minneapolisafter a judge released him from custody into electronic home monitoring in mid-December. Merkel said they were alerted Wednesday night that the ankle bracelet had been cut, and an adult at the home told them the boy had fled.
It remains unclear why Hennepin County District Judge Kathryn Quaintance released the suspect.
.....Side note here....Andrew Rothman published the female judges home address after the escape...she lives in the area of the rapes....TeeHeeHee.
A total of four suspects were arrested in connection with the assaults, which occurred in and around Powderhorn Park on Nov. 24. A criminal complaint said the boys, ages 14 to 16, sexually assaulted and robbed a 45-year-old woman at gunpoint when she was cross-country skiing with her young children. The boys then allegedly walked to a nearby garage, where they attempted to sexually assault two teenage girls, 16 and 18, before police arrested them.
The November criminal complaint charges one boy, whose initials are M.T.H., with aiding and abetting aggravated assault. It is not clear whether it is the same boy who cut off the ankle bracelet.
The violent rapes shook the community surrounding Powderhorn Park, whose members later held a vigil to denounce violence.
The mother posted on an online message board in late November that she sees "those boys as hurting, scared children who didn't get the kind of nurture, love and care that they needed."
This story is the PERFECT STORM OF SOCIAL CORRUPTION...
America's history of Slavery and institutionalized segregation prevents us from addressing GUILDED SOCIALISM of Welfare and Entitlement Benefits as they are UN-Official Reparations for Slavery.
The future in this area is Bleak....(Think Chicago & Detroit) why do I even care? Silence would be worse.
you care because you and I have to live in this society. I carry a fire arm but I avoid any sorts of situations where it might be necessary to use it. What this trend is telling me is that I'm may be targeted and that I have a higher likelihood of having to do so with the sociopaths running wild on the streets and randomly assaulting people. I don't want any part of that and I'd perfer to work to solve the problem at its core than deal with the fall out of the mistake.
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