The epidemic of black mob violence against whites – especially the "Knockout Game" in which an unsuspecting victim is hit on the head sometimes hard enough to kill – has been all over the media this week as reporters discover the racially motivated violence on which WND has reported for years.
Still, there are doubters.
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"But it's unclear if the trend even exists," stated Philly.com in a report today on a video of a suspect attacking a 23-year-old man on a train, apparently in an attempt to steal a phone.
"Passengers rushed in to help the victim. It's not clear if the incident was a case of a so-called 'knockout' attack some media are reporting as a trend, or a robbery gone violent," the report said.
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The suspect was described as a bearded black male with a two-tone gray jacket, tan pants, sneakers and a black skull cap.
"The attack is similar to what's being reported as part of a so-called 'knockout' game trend, whereby innocent bystanders are attacked from behind," the report said.
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The trend, however, does not lack documentation.
Author Colin Flaherty in his "White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It" reveals the extent of the problem in Philadelphia.
A chapter called "The Philadelphia Syndrome" recounts "dozens of episodes of racial mob violence" in the city.
"As I write this, the local news just finished a story on three black people who had been convicted of racial violence. The reporter said Philly had seen five cases of mob violence in the last year," says Flaherty.
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"I'm not sure how he's defining 'mob violence' because by my count there are many more than five episodes in Philadelphia. Many share the same characteristics: punching, stealing cell phones, laughing at the victims, sending text messages on stolen phones, fighting, and assaulting police officers."
His book includes codes that provide Web links to videos that document his reporting, which includes a report of 40 people in a "mob."
"The reporters never mentioned that these were just an offshoot of the thousands of black people who had swarmed the upscale bars, restaurants, and shops in South Philadephia with mayhem on their minds," Flaherty writes.
And there was the time then-Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter "declared that an outbreak of racial violence was nothing to worry about and was really the fault of bad reporting. The police chief had backed up the mayor, and the district attorney said a high school diploma is the best anti-crime tool. Just one year and a few dozen attacks earlier, the mayor and his crew had assured the people of Philadelphia that the flash mob crimes would stop because, uh . . . they said they were going to stop them," Flaherty reported.
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In reality, he says, YouTube videos "showed thousands of black people roaming the streets of Philadelphia committing acts of vandalism, looting, and violence."
"But not a word from the press about the racial component of these crimes. There were lots of video cameras. Local affiliates had plenty of video footage, but no one had the nerve to say what the video screamed: all the attackers and looters were black.
He notes even Al Jazeera had a story: "Flash mobs can be quite effective when multiple people turn up in one place to attract attention to a just cause. ... They can, however, be terrifying when they're violent and unnecessary, as we have seen in 'the City of Brotherly Love.'"
He lists a few of the black mob attacks:
- March 17, 2010. Dozens of black people fight in a clothing store while onlookers laugh and cheer.
- Spring 2010. Police break up a black flash mob in the Tioga-Nicetown section of Philadelphia. Kids were bored and acting stupid, said the reporter. The video tells another story.
- July 4, 2010. Hundreds of black people storm the streets of South Philadelphia beating, looting and destroying.
- June 2011. More than 40 black people in a Philly suburb descended on a Sears and ransacked it in broad daylight. Afterwards, the police chief said he feared for the safety – of the rioters.
- July 2011. Hundreds of black people created an “astonishing” amount of violence at downtown Philadelphia restaurants, hotels and bars.
- July 4, 2011. Ten black people assault and stab a student from LaSalle University and his dog. The student is still alive, though many people do not know how. The dog probably saved him.
Explains Flaherty: "This list goes on and on, and none of the reporters seemed to notice the race of the criminals. It was so glaring that hundreds of readers commented online and wanted to know why the newspapers repeatedly refused to identify the race of the attackers. Many of the comments were removed for being racist."
He also reported when Nutter "changed the game" by admitting blacks in his city have a problem with violence.
In a church speech, the mayor said: "You have damaged your own race. Take those ... hoodies down, especially in the summer. Pull your pants up and buy a belt ’cause no one wants to see your underwear or the crack of your butt. Nobody. If you walk into somebody’s office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won’t hire you? They don’t hire you ’cause you look like you’re crazy."
Flaherty reports the attacks, nevertheless, continued.
But other media had fewer doubts.
"It's savagery. It's very difficult to watch those tapes," former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg told Bill O'Reilly on "The O'Reilly Factor."
"The reason most of the people watching us tonight are probably shocked by these videos and don't know anything about them ... is because they're getting precious little attention – no attention that we could find in the New York Times and the Washington Post or the network evening newscasts. And I think there's a reason for this, and it's not a journalistic reason."
"Just let's imagine that what we're seeing here is white kids attacking black people," Goldberg continued, "that in cities like St. Louis and Washington and Milwaukee and Hoboken, N.J., and Syracuse, N.Y., and other cities, young white kids got together and said, 'Let's start this game. We'll call it the Knockout.' And they go around and some black guy is coming home from work and out of the blue, they just hit him in the face as hard as they can and he goes down. And then their idiotic white friends giggle about it like a bunch of hyenas, and then they post it on the Internet. That would obviously be a national news story because it's orchestrated racial violence. But this isn't."
Meanwhile on "Hannity," former NYPD detective Bo Dietl blasted media suppression of the trend and criticized the way police agencies have handled the cases.
"The liberal news media doesn't want to say what it is. It's gangs of black youths attacking whites," Dietl told host Sean Hannity.
"It's a race-based thing. It's the black youths against the white individual. Not even just a man. It's against defenseless women and defenseless people and they hit 'em in the face and they try to knock 'em out. People have been killed. My problem is, they gotta take this crime, and they gotta categorize it the way it's supposed to be categorized. It's black-on-white crime. That's racist."
Also appearing on the program was noted criminal defense attorney Remy Spencer, who agreed the "Knockout Game" was severely underreported.
"I think people in today's society are too politically correct and afraid to talk about violence from black people on white people," Spencer said. "But if you reverse it, look at the George Zimmerman trial. That got national attention, not just because a young man died, but because of the race issue. I think media outlets are afraid of reporting this kind of crime."
Greta Van Susteren, host of "On the Record" on the Fox News Channel, lashed into perpetrators of the "Knockout Game."
""This is no game. It is a mean, dangerous and deadly crime," she said.
In a personal commentary, Van Susteren said Americans have to address the problem as soon as possible:
"No one wants to get near the topic of race, but we also can't run from this one. People are getting hurt, they're getting murdered. And even those who live in these communities where this is happening, they have a right to be safe, and they don't have to live in fear of having their children hurt or even poisoned by ugly peer pressure, right?
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