As the New York Post reports, 62-year-old grandfather Ronald Baptiste was punched and then pushed onto the Bronx subway tracks in what appears to be a so-called “knockout game” attack. Baptiste wept T.
As the New York Post reports, 62-year-old grandfather Ronald Baptiste was punched and then pushed onto the Bronx subway tracks in what appears to be a so-called “knockout game” attack. Baptiste wept Tuesday while describing the assault and pleading with NYC Mayor Eric Adams to step up and do more to combat similar attacks.
Per Wikipedia, “the ‘knockout game’ is one of the names given in the United States for assaults in which a person (with others acting as accomplices or lookouts) attempts to make an unsuspecting victim lose consciousness with a single sucker punch. The assaults have similarities to the happy slapping trend seen in Europe, in which camera phones are used to record assaults. Other names given to assaults of this type include ‘knockout,’ ‘knockout king,’ ‘point ’em out, knock ’em out,’ and ‘polar-bearing’ or ‘polar-bear hunting’ (allegedly called such when the victim is white and the assailants are not).
