There isn’t definitive evidence that the media-hyped “knockout game” is even real, but lawmakers are still enacting legislation that will give longer jail sentences to those accused of participating. Legislators in at least four states have responded to reports of the assaults with proposals to increase penalties and jail time for defendants. Problem is, the […]
Santa hasn’t been a good boy lately. SantaCon, the annual tradition that has thousands of New Yorkers flooding bars and streets over the weekend dressed up in holiday attire, led to a drunken brawl in Union Square Saturday night. According to Deadspin, eight men (six Santas) were involved in the attack that was recorded and […]
A Texas teen is walking away from a crime he committed simply because he’s never faced consequences in the past…and he has the money to do so. In June, 16-year-old Ethan Couch was driving drunk and killed four people while going 70 mph in a 40 limit area. The teen was facing up to 20 […]
As the Sandy Hook massacre one-year anniversary approaches, parents of the victims are starting to speak out about the moment they lost their children. Neil Heslin, who lost his son Jesse in the shooting, spoke to CNN’s Piers Morgan Live about seeing Adam Lanza’s father for the first time, and he unveiled a deep sense of strength and […]
A recent report has discovered that drug defendants who’ve gone to trial in the past couple of years are being forced to plead guilty. According to the Huffington Post, in 2012, drug defendants who went to trial and lost are sentenced more than three times as many years than defendants who took plea deals. The […]
So this happened. The alleged ‘Knockout Game,” in which suspects come up and randomly punch victims in the face in an attempt to knock them out, has left people scared and confused across the country as more untruths and details spread. While some believe that the game is an urban myth, CNN decided to run with the […]
There’s a first time for everything. Police shot and killed a gunman firing a shotgun in his apartment in Iceland’s capital of Reykjavik — an incident almost expected in the U.S. but never done before in the country with the lowest crime rate in the world. In comparison, there were 16 fatal police shootings in New […]
A mass shooting in Oakland, Calif. on Monday night has left seven men injured, two of whom are in critical condition. According to ABC: Police received multiple calls of shots fired near the corner of 96th Avenue and Olive Street at 6:08 p.m. and the city’s ShotSpotter system alerted officers to a hail of gunfire […]
The disturbing new trend, the Knockout Game, may have spread fear across areas like Philadelphia, NYC and even Washington, but police in several cities where such attacks are being reported believe the game is nothing more than an “urban myth.” The game, where young people try to knock out a stranger with one blow, might […]
Following additional investigation into the Steubenville, Ohio rape case that gripped the nation last year, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has made a major announcement. A grand jury has indicted four more people in connection with the assault of a 16-year-old girl. Two teenage football players were found guilty of raping the girl in March. […]
An emotionally charged hate crime that occurred at San Jose State University has civil rights activists demanding a harsher punishment for the three suspects involved. Last week, we learned of the three students who allegedly terrorized their 17-year-old African American roommate, calling him various racial slurs including “three-fifths,” and putting a bike lock around his neck. The […]
We’ve heard the reports, we’ve witnessed the assaults, we know that random attacks on pedestrians are common, but are they all part of a sick game called “knockout?” Police are investigating the disturbing new trend, where teens appear to punch strangers with the goal of knocking them unconscious with a single blow, which in […]
