Who played KNOCKOUT KING?
BLACK MOBS' KNOCKOUT GAME RAISING ALARMS
Death, brain injury reported after cases of attackers coldcocking passersby
Published: 16 hours ago
By Colin Flherty
Ready to play the Knockout Game?
The St. Louis version is the most popular, so letâs start there: Begin with a bunch of black people. Anywhere from five to 50.
Find a white person, but an Asian will do. Alone is important. Older is better. Weak and defenseless even more so.
Without warning, punch that person in the face as hard as you can. You win if you score a Knockout.
If not, keep punching until your arms and legs get too tired to continue. Or the person dies.
You can play anywhere, but âvibrant and culturally mixedâ South Grand District is probably best. That is where the victims are: Asians, âgayâ people, artists, yuppies â people who wonât fight back.
The league does not have official standings. Not yet. But over the last two years, the number of attacks has ranged from 20, if you believe the police, to 100, if you believe people actually playing and watching the game.
And that is just in St. Louis.
That man was 51-year-old Matt Quain, who had been on his way home from a local grocery story, ready to celebrate a Cardinalsâ victory in the World Series. The Post-Dispatch reports some of the details:
âEighteen teenagers jumped on him and started hitting him with bricks for no apparent reason,â said Charlie Quain, the victimâs nephew. Quainâs uncle was walking home with a neighbor when he was attacked in front of a public library. Nothing was taken from him, and he was able to escape before things escalated.
The game has caused deaths in the past.
There was also plenty of jubilation on Facebook, the Post-Dispatch reported, including a dispatch from a black person known as the Knockout King because he was universally acclaimed to be the master of this athletic art form: âFREE ALL MY TKO GUYS.â
âIt is because of a game called Knockout. Someone punched him in the head for sport and entertainment. The goal is to knockout someone with one punch. If you do that, you win,â reported KMOV.
âIâd say maybe ten to fifteen percent of kids play Knockout King,â Aaron Davis, whoâs eighteen and lives in south city, adding that he never took part. âItâs not a whole school, but itâs a nice percentage.â
Some former participants maintain Davisâ estimate is too low.
âEverybody plays,â says eighteen-year-old Brandon Demond, a former participant who provided only his first and middle names for publication.
âItâs a game for groups of teens to see who can hit a person the hardest,â explains Brandon, whoâs standing with a group of friends on Grand Boulevard as a police officer listens nearby. âItâs a bunch of stupid ⦠little dudes in a group, like we are now. See this dude walkinâ up behind me?â â Brandon gestures to a longhaired man walking toward him on the sidewalk â âwe could just knock him out right now.â
BLACK MOBS' KNOCKOUT GAME RAISING ALARMS
Death, brain injury reported after cases of attackers coldcocking passersby
Published: 16 hours ago
By Colin Flherty
Ready to play the Knockout Game?
The St. Louis version is the most popular, so letâs start there: Begin with a bunch of black people. Anywhere from five to 50.
Find a white person, but an Asian will do. Alone is important. Older is better. Weak and defenseless even more so.
Without warning, punch that person in the face as hard as you can. You win if you score a Knockout.
If not, keep punching until your arms and legs get too tired to continue. Or the person dies.
You can play anywhere, but âvibrant and culturally mixedâ South Grand District is probably best. That is where the victims are: Asians, âgayâ people, artists, yuppies â people who wonât fight back.
The league does not have official standings. Not yet. But over the last two years, the number of attacks has ranged from 20, if you believe the police, to 100, if you believe people actually playing and watching the game.
And that is just in St. Louis.
That man was 51-year-old Matt Quain, who had been on his way home from a local grocery story, ready to celebrate a Cardinalsâ victory in the World Series. The Post-Dispatch reports some of the details:
âEighteen teenagers jumped on him and started hitting him with bricks for no apparent reason,â said Charlie Quain, the victimâs nephew. Quainâs uncle was walking home with a neighbor when he was attacked in front of a public library. Nothing was taken from him, and he was able to escape before things escalated.
The game has caused deaths in the past.
There was also plenty of jubilation on Facebook, the Post-Dispatch reported, including a dispatch from a black person known as the Knockout King because he was universally acclaimed to be the master of this athletic art form: âFREE ALL MY TKO GUYS.â
âIt is because of a game called Knockout. Someone punched him in the head for sport and entertainment. The goal is to knockout someone with one punch. If you do that, you win,â reported KMOV.
âIâd say maybe ten to fifteen percent of kids play Knockout King,â Aaron Davis, whoâs eighteen and lives in south city, adding that he never took part. âItâs not a whole school, but itâs a nice percentage.â
Some former participants maintain Davisâ estimate is too low.
âEverybody plays,â says eighteen-year-old Brandon Demond, a former participant who provided only his first and middle names for publication.
âItâs a game for groups of teens to see who can hit a person the hardest,â explains Brandon, whoâs standing with a group of friends on Grand Boulevard as a police officer listens nearby. âItâs a bunch of stupid ⦠little dudes in a group, like we are now. See this dude walkinâ up behind me?â â Brandon gestures to a longhaired man walking toward him on the sidewalk â âwe could just knock him out right now.â
