Seems this "game " started prior to 2011 .
Read my post, I mentioned only the Knockout Game, never Polar Bear hunting. Searches "of" indicated these events called "knockout" and in other case "polar bear" were named based on location.
The polar bear events (post # 6) with link to articles and events, yes in 2010' but all are confined in and around Champaign Ill. area. Of the 5 embedded links at the UrbanGrounds website (post #6 link again) containing "The New Urban Sport" article, 2 are from Champaign Ill. news sources, a 3rd for CBS Chicago Channel 2 that is now a dead link, the 4th from a website called thug report and the 5th YouTube. The first 3 support my conclusion this is a localized event of a urban and midwest nature having now spread east up to the northeast but not under the name polar bear hunting. Keep Reading!
The Thug Report shows 3 events of the Knockout Game (No Polar Bears sighted I guess) one in St. Louis, one in Lansing Michigan and the other in Philly. Again, supporting my conclusion this phenomena as urban, middle/upper midwest to northeast.
As to the name of Polar Bear Hunting being exclusive to Champaign area, Thomas Sowell 4 days ago wrote the following:
Many aspects of these crimes are extremely painful to think about, including the fact that responsible authorities in New York seem to have been caught by surprise, even though this “knockout game” has been played for years by young black gangs in other cities and other states, against people besides Jews — the victims being either whites in general or people of Asian ancestry.
Attacks of this sort have been rampant in St. Louis. But they have also occurred in Massachusetts, Wisconsin and elsewhere. In Illinois the game has often been called “Polar Bear Hunting” by the young thugs, presumably because the targets are white.
But more than that, google "polar bear hunting champaign illinois" and look over the links. Like
this one for example, the title is right up your alley. The date of the web piece is May 2013 but the news source is dated 2010. Looking further in the searches, it appears to me that the polar bear events of Champaign took place in 2010' and pretty much ended in and around that same time frame. The events in St. Louis, the Knockout Game, appear to have gone on and spread under that name to other places. Even Sowell appears to bare out that point as well.
As to the author Colin Flaherty and his book, well he does seem to paint a pretty grim picture of black on white violence. All these attacks on white people, yep, sure is bad. Even the google entry for his 10/16/2012 article on the attack on Wisconsin running back Monte Ball suggests a "polar bear" connection.
Heisman hopes hit by black-mob attack - WorldNetDaily
www.wnd.com/2012/.../heisman-hopes-hit-by-black-mob-attack...
by Colin Flaherty
Oct 16, 2012 - Badgers fans are hopeful that Ball's big game against Purdue
last week is a sign he has fully recovered.
... at the University of Illinois, they even gave it a name:
Polar Bear Hunting.
... I live in
Champaign,
Illinois-home of the University of Illinois.
... The latest
polar bear attack took place over the summer.
Reading the story if you don't pay real close attention, a very key point is all but missed. However Colin and WND did leave themselves an out. The real Monte Ball story is in the picture itself (look closely) and if you still miss it, maybe
this will help make it obvious. When it comes to bears, I'm pretty sure Monte would not qualify as being of the polar bear family. Monte's story is tragic but as I said earlier and this story points it out, all these attacks if they are to be connected and of a common source are not all done to white victims only.
And even Colin Flaherty himself makes a distinction as to location when he makes the following point just 3 days ago in a WND op-ed he worte:
Location! Location! Location!
In the same article, Flaherty asserts another Knockout Game event involving University of Alabama football players:
However, if you read
the story from the University of Alabama Campus newspaper, instead of another knockout game attack, this is nothing more than a simple robbery using assault as a means to disarm the victim in order to steal the property. And tracing that story through the sports and Alabama football press, I found no mention of the knockout game so who are the "many" Flaherty is speaking of?
Again, I used and focused on the term knockout because the term when it's applied widespread is that and not polar bear hunting. That said, it doth appear again that the term knockout started in St. Louis with a punk known by the handle, The Knockout King and in their case, the acts are random and for the sake of the violence and nothing else but this still appears to be of an urban thing, large city only but this too could change. So far however, that doesn't seem the case.
So, back to my early point and question, tell me why people outside these specific urban areas of the midwest to northeast or rather those living in the outer suburban to rural area of the middle/upper midwest to northeast or those of us living in the south, lower midwest or western US should be all that concerned with this problem? Other than the stretch of the Monte Ball case to polar bear hunting, no cases by that name appear to have occurred in the Champaign area from whence it started since 2010' or there abouts. Knockout might be another story and thus why I focused as stated on the term knockout as opposed to the term polar bear hunting.
Now can you give me a total count of all these events, the ones purely of a racial nature and show me the statistical odds that I or most other Americans are actually at risk? I'm betting a lightning strike is a bit more of a potential threat that I should concern myself than a polar bear or knockout attack. Do I think this is something to get hysterically worked up about?
NOPE! Did you ever consider moving BTW?
Island
What does polar bear hunting and the knockout game have anything directly to do with your family situation in Florida?
Is the situation you describe sad? Yes! Tragic? Yes! No argument and I wish you all the best with it. As Drive raised the point however, the problem may start with the adults, you included so where does the solution start? The kids are the victims here. How does stopping every attack change your nephew's attitude or for that matter your bro-n-law? How does no more attacks in the midwest and northeast cities change your nephew's POV? How will those stopping get him to return to school and focus on getting an education?
Other than an avenue of emotional venting here, projecting your emotions into, how does this thread or forcing the rest of us to pay for the state to provide what you think is a solution going to actually change your family situation? How does the use of compulsory force on the rest of us to obtain a state solution to which you think you'll benefit, teach your nephew that the use of violence and force are wrong?
"Gee Uncle, how come you can force and threaten those people to get your way to which you think you benefit and then you tell me I'm wrong for doing and thinking the very same thing when it comes to getting my way?"
The answers you seek are not found by specific performance from any of us on or for your behalf. The best answers and solutions will come from you and yours.
you're 100% right.
