The knockout the game spreads teens are cold cocking strangers the problem and what is the best way to stop it . Has been increasingly struck by you can beat your child in a race at their their age. The mobile individual yo game candy crush is pulling in millions of dollars a week. Our candy crush and games like it built to hook you like a drug. Im antonio mo. Mora. We are bringing you the knockout game. They tend to knock people out with one punch while another records it. There have been at least 18 recent attacks and four deaths attributed to it in the past two years. The crime has spread across america as videos have gone viral. Janette looks at the terrifying new trend. Watch as the gangs of teens approach this 50yearold Pittsburgh School teacher. Sucker punched and out cold. And another 00er i 00 here in n. The game could turn deadly when the victims head smashes into the could b concrete. That has happened ottawa twice in year. One teen explains the idea behind the game. Knockout is a game that a lot of teenagers play one. Guys to randomly what doe choose walking down the street. Some say its random but others say there is more of a pattern of how offenders target their victim. It happens to be a jew in each and every case. They are he roo purge t referring to cases that happened in this jewish neighborhood. It was right on this block that the 12yearold hebrew student was attacked on november 13th. They have the hate Crime Task Force looking into the attacks to determine if they were hate crimes. One reason some are not reporting the crimes the teens dont steal from the victims they simply walk away. Are they going to take someones money or cell phone . No they are going to nap you out. What is the point . For the fun of it. To run around and hit people and knock them out. They think its funny. They think its funny. They think its amusing. What is a joke to some is costing others their lives. For more im joined by dr. Boyce watt continues watt watkinsa. And thank you both for coming on the show. Dr. Watkins i want to start with you. There are reports that attacks like these have been around for a decade or more. But we are certainly seeing more attacks recently or hearing more about them. What do you think is happening. Well i mean, i think teenagers naturally have be a inclination to engage in some degree to social defensivians. Defensive defensivians. Defensive g i think what you really are seeing is a society where our kids are desensitized to violence. They grow up playing grand theft auto and you are doing the knockout game but with ak 47s and attacking random citizens. The its a lot to be alarmed about. We dont know how many attacks have occurred. Some victims dont report the attacks because there is no robbery involved and in some cases they dont know what happened. We have some numbers across the kung. Country 7 in new york city and one in denver and one in syracuse and two in st. Louis and one in chicago who died and we have another one in san diego. Dr. Gardi er new york seems to be the ep ep ep b epi center. I know you have a friend that was attacked. It was a fellow physician and she was walking down the street and she was surrounded by a group of young men and one of them swung on her and she avoided the punch and she studied karate and was able to stay on her feet. And what she said to them was hey what you ar are you what y . Where are your parents . Go home. Who is taking care of you . As a physician she recognized these were young men had no purpose and no academic goals and had nothing to lose and knowing they could kill someone or injury them in a very gross way they just didnt care. And i believe these are youngsters who dont care about life and dont care about themselves. Dont care about the consequences that they may end up going to jail or killing someone. That is big issue. And that friend probably has the fear instilled in her. Im glad she was okay and not knocked out or worse. Yes with the pub list ti pube you concerned about the fear is instilled by people walking down the street. We were talking about it in our editoeditorial that you are loog over your shoulder more. Black youth are not stigmatized by this. There is already a fear of black men. And now these individuals have done bad things, lets be straight about that. I dont want it turning into a race situation because we know many jews have been attacked in brooklyn and now they have to look over their shoulders and be afraid of any young black male that approaches them. This is a real problem. I do want to address race in a moment. The videos are Popular Online and they hav they are getting hf hits. And when you find them you discover kids laughing about it. You punch someone and they go to sleep when you hit them. For the fun of it. Little kids run around and hit people and knocking them out. Even though they shouldnt be doing it they are doing it. Dr. Wat watkins what went wr. Itits chilling to hear them tk about it like its a silly glam. One thing we have to learn about society is desens desensitized young people. You have kids growing up playing video games that are incredibly violent. Like grand theft auto. It does fee sens desensitize kids to violence and they look like real people. We have a whole generation of young people who have been ignored by our society we dont invote in education or preschool or after Cool School Programs and the identif idol me devils workshop. And we have so many million of kids who have grown up with out struck fu fur instructure in th. Do you see them as sociopathses and not understanding the contesconsequences of their act. Lets be clear. Teens have a certain tendency that leads to social deviation. When i was a teen i did things that i wouldnt do today. I am sure p ther there are manys people that would agree to that. There was a Wildlife Reserve where they put a bunch of adolescent elephants on the reserve and there were no adults elephants around. The adolescent elephants were doing things unnatural like randomly killing rye no rye rhinos. When had mentors they wouldnt do that. When you listen to teens when they talk about the knockout game. They say we wanted to test if we can do the one hitter quitter and we wanted to see if we could knock a person out with one punch. They have no mentors to slow them down and say you could pay for this all of your life. I looked at the most popular trends. Knockout is the 10th most popularrer isch. Popularrepopular search. Its getting a lot of attention on social media. This is spreading across the country. The latest incident has been in san diego on tuesday. How big of a role has this played from the spread of this vicious game and does the Media Attention make it worse . I think what we are looking at is the idea of contagien. When you have youngsters that dont have mentorship or academic goals they are going to be open to venting their anger and hitting these peel i peopley to get back at society. They feel they have nothing. They are at the bottom of the totem pole. They figure this is the way to immortality and away to make a statement. And people are giving them positive reinforcement Antonio Antonio by watching these videos and its the wrong kind of reinforcement and they are getting high on the violence. Until this week none of the networks had touched this story and the argument is that people dont want to touch it because its young black males. What is your reaction to that. We need to cover this story and wh what is going on. We are not glorifing it. You are talking about what is the h ediology. And i hope that young people that are watching this realize that what they are doing is not just self destructive but its murderous and their parents need to step in. I think dr. Watkins needs to to agree with this. Step in and po pa pat rolled patrol their own children and teach them that its murderous. What do you say to the criticism that africanamerican leaders have not stepped up and talked about this. You are arguing about the importance of mentors and of parents being there. What about africanamerican leaders speaking out. I like to argue that you have two africanamerican leaders right here. Good point and we are glad to have you both. I would say when you talk about black leadership one of the things i strongly believe there is that black leadership starts in your livingroom and that starts with the parents. We also have to look at as a society what are we doing with the parents. I can give you an idea of a family in chicago that was well disciplined and there was a drug dealer in the family nonviolent and so they sold dru drugs they gave the far 140 years in prison and they locked up his mother and brother. They grew up with out parents and as a result they grew up with out guidance. We have millions of households where there are no parents there to do anything. We have a responsibility to address this issue in a holistic way and not point out and say bad plaqu black kids its not go get us anywhere. Its not just black children. Its going to go to poor white children. Its not so much about the race but socia socioeconomics. Lets hope that by you speaking out the attention stops it instead of encourages it. Start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. And a host willing to ask the tough questions and youll get. The inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et 2pm pt only on Al Jazeera America armed pakistani men staged assaults in mumbai. Launching three days of terror that horrified the nation and the world. Now a book raises a litany of questions that were not fully answered. Who directed the attack and and why. What was the roll of the agent. And why was it stow so painfully throw. The taj hotel was the most iconic in was in mumbai. What made these attacks so horrible and different in a way. They went after eight different sites and attacked people at all of these different places is that one of the unusual things about the attack . That is one of the most unusual. We call that a swarm attack. The idea that a swarm team can give a larger foot print and make it look like an army invaded the city. You have ten men armed with machine guns and small amount of explosives and a few remote detonated charges. But the appearance is of an army affecting the city. The second thing that is amazing is that they are controlled by a control room. And the control room has a bank of tvs and they have google earth and cnn and bbc and al jazeera and local tv khabibulin channels. Anand so this makes it something quite new. Its incredible that ten men were able to do as much as these men g did despite having the controllers in pakistan watching the news reports and guiding the guys from a distance with the new technology. Its amazing they were able to do that. Is it a huge failure on the part of the Indian Government . I think it was a big surprise. There were warnings that were passed over to the agencies before hand. It was attacking a blues busiy t in mu mumbai and total surprise and total authorities. They were given warnings by the cia and other in tel intelle agencies other than the cia. Given those warnings there may have been intentional disregard of those warnings. I put it down to systemic failure and not a conspiracy. There has been a tendency to allow certain events unfold in order to demonstrate the enemy outside but i dont think this is one of those. I think what you have here is something more slightly depressing really, which is a mounting drum beat. A drum beating louder and louder pointing to specific targets that were going to be attacked. Ten guys and a suicide squad and a inability to develop that and pass the intelligence down. And part of the reason, i think the americans never shared one crucial piece of information which is what the origin of the intelligence was. An american double agent. A american citizen that was playing both sides. He infiltrated the ge jihad grop that launched the attacks. He was sentenced to prison in the united states. What went wrong. You saw that. This was a privileged guyand his dad was a broadcaster and his mother was a well to do woman. When you look back at his life one extraordinary factor david hedley served david hedley. His mother was from maryland and his father was a renowned broadcaster. And every stage of his privileged life he betrayed the friends nearest to him. He eventually was a drug dealer and sold out to work for the dea and a collaboration with the authorities. And near the time when Al Qaeda Rose its head he offered somethinsomething new to the Intelligence Community he said what if i get you inside of the movement. Then he ended up flipping. He was working both sides. Determining using some sort of subjective interpretation of their policy as to whether or not your particular report was actually abusive, because if it doesnt contain language that specifically threatens you directly or is targeted towards you specifically, they may not consider it abuse. They may consider it offensive. And in that case they just recommend that you block that person. I dont want to minimise this, because i mean, theres some really horrible things that are on line, and its not its not just twitter, what has happened through social media and the anonymity of the net is that you see websites, hatefilled websites targetting all sorts of groups, popping up. There has been a huge number of those that exist as well. While you were asleep, news was happening. 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