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The Knockout Game: Violent Frenzy Spreading Across the U.S.
Knockout, also known as the knockout game, knockout king, bombing, polar-bearing, and polar-bear hunting, is a violent activity performed by sucker punching or beating up an unsuspecting passerby. Serious injuries and deaths have been attributed to knockout.
In the United States, such attacks have received elevated news coverage in late 2013. The earliest reference to the “knockout game” comes from the 1992 murder of Yngve Raustein at the hands of Cambridge, Massachusetts area teenagers, who were heard talking about the game following the assault and murder. A similar series of attacks were perpetrated by a British teenager in mid 2013, although the game in question was referred to as a “bomb” and also received news coverage in late 2013. The game has also been compared to “Happy slapping”, a fad originating in the UK in the mid-2000s in which one or more people attack a victim for the purpose of recording the assault.
SOURCE WIKIPEDIA
