Good on Councilman Reed for calling it what it is.
Via Downtrend:
Step with me, ladies and gentlemen, into Cleveland, Ohio, where during this past St. Patrick’s Day, at least six white males were attacked “without provocation by roaming bands of young African-Americans described as juveniles”:
It’s called the “knockout game.” Young violent thugs play it on occasion.
The premise is simple. An unsuspecting person, someone minding their own business, usually walking down a public street, is violently attacked. The idea is to render the person unconscious with a single punch.
Robbery is not the defining motive, nor is revenge. There is no real purpose to the attack other than to put someone to sleep in a quick and brutal fashion.
One of this year’s victims, 23-year-old Akron, “woke up in an ambulance after being knocked out.”
The police refuse to classify the attacks as racially motivated, but Cleveland councilman Zack Reed, a black man, disagrees.
“[Public Square] is ground zero on St. Patrick’s Day for blacks to go beat up whites,” Reed told reporters. “I believe this is a hate crime because it is black folks purposefully going downtown to beat up white folks.”