Nov 24, 2013— -- The Brooklyn, N.Y., man accused of assaulting an Orthodox Jew in what appears to be another case of the knockout game is being charged with a hate crime for the alleged attack.

Syracuse, NY - Knockout-- the game a group of teenagers in Syracuse allegedly played that resulted in the violent, random death of a 51-year-old man-- has been a national phenomenon for at least a ...

There are a few variations, but this is generally how "the knockout game" works: A teenager, or a bunch of teenagers, bored and looking for something to get into, spies some unsuspecting mark on the ...

Media outlets have described a recent attack in New York City as an instance of the "knockout game." The so-called trend has been used as a buzzword to stoke moral panic for the last decade.

All three are the latest victims of a “horrid new phenomenon known as the ‘knockout game,’” said Joseph F. Cotto in UPI.com. The rules of this sick new game are simple: Try to knock out an ...