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The Nation's Pulse
Most Dangerous Game
The ‘Knockout Game’ is coming to a city near you.
Like characters in a Dystopian novel, the four teenagers were out for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Only they had another name for it. Sometimes they called it the “Knockout Kings,” after the series of video games. (Rated M for Maybe there is a connection between violence and violent video games.) And sometimes they called it the “knockout game.” The game consists in randomly picking out a weak, frail-looking individual — often an Asian immigrant, since they seldom fight back or call the cops — and beating him or her senseless.
Game over.
That’s what happened to Hoang Nguyen on a Saturday morning in April in south St. Louis. The 72-year-old Nguyen and his wife were walking home after shopping at a local market when they took a shortcut through the alley behind their home. That’s when the Nguyens became pawns in somebody’s sick idea of a game. And we’re not talking chess here.
Nguyen was savagely beaten, his wife assaulted. The “players” fled when a car turned down the alley. Nguyen died soon after at a nearby hospital.
At first detectives tried to make sense of the murder. Maybe it was a robbery gone bad. However, the attackers hadn’t taken anything. So it must have been a revenge killing. Only the victims hadn’t known the attackers; they’d never seen them before. Maybe, the cops speculated, the killers confused them with another elderly Vietnamese couple who had testified in a robbery case? Or, knowing how some city residents feel about Asian shopkeepers, might it have been a hate crime?
That was the cops’ working theory until they tracked down one of the four suspects. It was easy after reviewing footage from one of the ubiquitous surveillance cameras local business owners set up in a futile attempt to reduce the number of property crimes.
Police picked up 18-year-old Elex Levell Murphy. Detectives were well acquainted with Murphy. After all, they had just released him from the city jail two days before. He’d been busted four times for riding the metro without a ticket. Trivial crimes that, as any prosecutor knows, often lead to more serious ones. The young man quickly cleared things up for detectives. No, it wasn’t a burglary or a hate crime or a case of revenge. It was just a game.
EVEN IN AMERICA’S most violent city, Nguyen’s murder managed to make front-page news. Elderly Vietnamese immigrants are not murdered every day. Stranger yet, here was a homicide apparently undertaken as sport. In that way, it was reminiscent of another fictional story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” about a mad Russian aristocrat who stalks a big game hunter for sport. Only in this instance the victim is weak and frail and outnumbered and cannot fight back. Where’s the sport in that?
News accounts suggest the knockout game is becoming increasingly popular among urban youths. There have been reports of it showing up in cities from Hoboken, New Jersey to Columbia, Missouri. In St. Louis, officials responded with the usual ineffectual language about the community being the greatest resource and neighbors needing to band together. But one retired police sergeant offered a different take. “Be armed,” Don Pizzo told a reporter. ”Be armed because if you’re not prepared to defend yourself in one way, shape or form that you’re going to end up like this, either in the hospital or like this Vietnamese guy.”
We’ve seen pop culture-induced violence before. Back in 1972, the film version of A Clockwork Orange was pulled from circulation in Britain after several copycat rapes and homicides. But until now, murder-as-a-game has been something encountered only in the most outlandish science fiction.
The murder of Hoang Nguyen, like most knockout game attacks, was captured by a security camera. America has become both a culture that glamorizes psychopathic violence and, consequently, a surveillance society — not to stop homicide, that is beyond our current technology, but to identify criminals afterwards. That is no deterrent to the criminals, but, on the up side, our civilization’s collapse will be thoroughly documented on film.
The cops are still trying to make sense out of Hoang’s murder. Editorial writers, used to blaming crime on a lack of economic opportunity, were left speechless. City officials wrung their hands over the senselessness of the murder, as if, to paraphrase Theodore Dalrymple, there is such a thing as a sensible murder.
The Nazi-hunter Simon Weisenthal once said that to try to explain evil is to begin to excuse it. Maybe it’s best we don’t even try.
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Deborah D | 4.28.11 @ 6:40AM
Frightening, Christopher. I am speechless, but I believe that evil is let loose on the world in an attempt to bring it back to where it needs to be. Insanity is not rational, so there is no rational explanation. We all must be better people and hope the good is passed along. We must be the good.
Alan Brooks| 4.28.11 @ 7:37AM
The perps ought to be breaking big rocks into small ones.
Aquanomics| 4.28.11 @ 10:35AM
No, they should be 6 feet beneath them.
Bob Grant| 4.28.11 @ 10:50AM
^ is jealous he didn't come up with that rebuttal.
figusja| 4.28.11 @ 6:47AM
I grew up in N.Y.C. lower eastside in the 70's.I believe this will escalate to even higher levels in the coming years. The youth have nothing to believe in but themselves. They are being taught that it is not there fault if they do not succeed in anything because "The MAN" did it to them. If you do not have to worry about succeeding at anything, then why even try at all? The violence in the games nowadays teach our children to think of killing as a game "it is not real". So when someone dies due to there violent act, there is no remorse. This has nothing to do about Education it is a cultural thing. An "AMERICAN" culture. I will be awaiting the critics about my comment.
The Big E| 4.28.11 @ 12:10PM
Let me be the first to criticize. You are absolutely, 100% correct. In all regards.
In a world where people are taught - by the culture itself - that there are no consequences for our actions, and that everything wrong in our lives is the fault of someone else, what else should we expect?
Now it's time for me to ire up the critics.
Teenagers of all stripes have always been, and will always be, thrill seekers and risk takers. I don't claim to know why that is, it probably has something to do with some sort of innate rite of passage into adulthood, but it has always been the case. (I'm not defending or glorifying such a juvenile behavior pattern - I'm just stating what I have observed). The thrill of taking any risk arises from the potential consequences if you fail. But if you have been acculturated to the idea that actions have no real consequences, that people are just points of contact on an ever widening electronic web, then how far do you have to go to achieve the same level of "thrill?" Racing you father's car on some dusty backroad, or throwing eggs at your neighbors house, just doesn't cut it anymore. It takes more to get the adrenaline pumping. It takes violence. The intensity of the hunt, the thrill of the kill.
This is our future America. We have bought and paid for it with years of ingrained irresponsibility. It is a bed which we have made. And now we have to lie in it.
SpiralArchitect| 4.28.11 @ 2:15PM
Ignored children and children with inept parents or overwhelmed parents will proliferate this problem.
My son plays a very violent game, basically shooting people. It is not gorry of bloddy, but obviously violent.
He certainly understands the concept of right and wrong and life and death.
In the culture war, the parents are the victors in my home, thank you.
Bragging, no. Simply establishing that there is still aa way to overcome this. Too bad it will not be plausable for all. That is the travisty.
Tina B| 4.28.11 @ 7:28AM
Thank you, it is not a matter of public education, and it is a cultural thing. The walls of my school are covered with anti-bullying posters, as are the walls of other middle schools, and probably HSs in my area.
They learn to be violent somewhere else. By the time I catch students being horrible to another student, the child is already steeped in the culture. The parents are not in control, the culture is.
The media, be it TV, movies or video games, gangs, drugs, diminishing family life and strength, divorce, abandonment of teenage (even preteen) children, casual sex and out of wedlock moms, babies raising babies, the new phenomenon of elderly grandparents who can't keep up with raising their kids' kids, but do their best to try. . . that's the predominant culture these days.
Occasionally we meet wonderful parents (normal parents working hard to keep an eye and some control over their maturing children) who are fighting a losing battle with the culture. God bless them.
I would fear, but I know who holds the future and I know He holds my hand. Christ is all that stands between disaster and my family as well. The culture is going down. Please wake up and find the Answer for you and your family.
figusja| 4.28.11 @ 7:35AM
Amen Sister!
Star Tripper| 4.28.11 @ 8:29AM
Children are taught not to defend themselves or others but to get a teacher or administrator. They are punished for sticking up for the weak. This is devestating on boys especially who then develop into weaklings or bullies. The days when the coach would take two kids who were fighting and put gloves on them and put them in a ring are over sad to say.
S&WM;&P| 4.28.11 @ 2:27PM
Sorry to disagree, but in any educational system where kids are led to believe that they are just a higher, more evolved animal, we will see animal like behavior. If you have been taught to believe that you were fearfully and wonderfully made, it puts human life on higher plain.
R Martin| 4.28.11 @ 7:36AM
One hopes Mr. Elex Levell Murphy and his cohorts are introduced to the execution game.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 4.28.11 @ 7:46AM
"It was just a game", some game, huh? Murder for sport? WTF!!
This is the exact reason that, "Otis McDonald, a 76-year-old black man from Chicago, sued the City for the right to buy a handgun (and won in a narrow 5 to 4 Supreme Court decision, but aren't all their decision's this narrow?). In his lawsuit to repeal Chicago's restrictive handgun law, McDonald said he needed a gun to protect himself -- not from a white mob but from young black "gangbangers" who were terrorizing his suburban Chicago neighborhood."
Now I'm not jumping to the conclusion that these particular "youths" in this crime were Black youths, but if I was a betting man, I'd put my money on it. And as another example, you can't take the train to Atlanta's Airport anymore, because you have to pass through a part of the City, that's been taking over by more "youths" there too, and you'll get your ass handed to you by them for the crime of wanting to get the hell out of the City (and why wouldn't you want to get out, with gangs taking over trains?). Nothing to see here!! Keep moving!!
Oh crap!! I just looked up this story on another site, and guess what? One of the "youths" in question, the one who's in custody right now, umm he's Black. Yeah, yeah, I'm shocked too (it's just too bad that I couldn't find anybody to take my bet)!! But it's not just Black Criminals that are doing this out there, there are plenty of White punk Criminals out there too, and it's time to level the playing field for everybody, for all the Otis McDonald's of this Country. Arm everybody who wants a gun, let them carry them wherever, and whenever they want too, and then just wait for the very surprised expressions on the faces of the next gang of youths, that picks a fight with a law abiding Citizen, like Otis. But that'll never happen, because there's one Political Party, the very same Political Party that controls most of these large Cities in America, that will never let law abiding Citizens protect themselves from Criminals, be they Black or White. Oh yeah, by the way, that would be the Democratic Party, just in case any of you were confused there.
May Hoang Nguyen rest in peace, and his murderers rot in hell!!
Bob Grant| 4.28.11 @ 8:38AM
It's time for the John Waynes, "Harry Callihans", Clint Eastwoods, Charles Bronsons, and Bernard Goetzs to rightfully retake their hero status of the past.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 4.28.11 @ 8:41AM
Hear, Hear!!
Shermans riding again!| 4.28.11 @ 9:42AM
I agree and recommend picking up a piece.
Anthony| 4.28.11 @ 1:06PM
Never happen, we're much too tolerant now.
Harry the Horrible| 4.28.11 @ 1:33PM
I have not seen this issue on the MARTA rail. From time to time, I ride it from North Springs to the airport and back. I've never seen anyone attacked or even accosted.
Unless this business with the train is relatively recent, it apparently isn't that common.
But I guess I'll make sure my mom and family drive rather than ride. Thats a pity. I like riding the train better than driving through Atlanta.
John McG| 4.28.11 @ 7:56AM
An armed society is a polite society (Heinlein). It's the essential first step in restoring sense to a purposeless society. Once we're all behaving well again, we can direct our energies at the underlying malaise.
Hillel| 4.28.11 @ 7:59AM
Kubrick screwed up "Clockwork Orange." Read the Book. "Anthony Burgess got it right (his theme Pelegian Heresy vrs. Augustine is worked out in several novels but Clockwork Orange is the best.
Melvin| 4.28.11 @ 8:21AM
People...we haven't even begun to see the hounds of hell unleashed upon us. Observe the evil in the form of two teenagers in a Maryland McDonald's, various shopping malls, woman jumps on Burger King counter, throwing things at store employees, and Hispanic Wendy's Manager beaten severely after telling teenage girls to leave for their rude behaivor.
Statistically I don't keep track, but I see a trend emanating from urban cities into the Burbs and even rural areas.
This is one downside to all this technology. Here at American Spectator I can converse and share opinions and ideas freely with like thinkers from all over the world, but many teenagers, use Social Networking Sites to propagate violent Anarchistic behavior.
When I was a teenager, bad behavior was scorned by society today it is celebrated and put on a video and uploaded to Facebook or other popular Social Networking sites.
Detroit Mich. Parents Beat Elderly Crossing Guard for trying to break up a fight that their son had instigated.
My wife is from the Philippines and we watch nightly, wanton violence and a disregard for human life. This violence on the other hand is brought about by poverty and hunger, which is getting worse daily due to the rising cost of petroleum products. Our media is not even beginning to address this hunger/violence overseas. This is another story.
We are seeing the fruition of the moral rot caused by Liberalism/Progressivism. Single motherhood, the acceptance by society of those, who use the excuse, "It's not my fault, society made me do it," Parents who treat their spawn as if they were trophies or one step below the family pet on the evolutionary scale.
Many parents try to be their teenagers cool friends, and allow drugs, promiscuity, alcohol because they want to be the, "Cool Parent," lack of respect in government run schools with teachers having sex with their students, and carrying the relationship off campus.
We have all read the stories, but no one is able to stop this advancing moral decay. The Liberal/Progressive mantra used to be and to a certain extent still is, "If it feels good do it."
How come it didn't feel so good to Mr. Hoang Nguyen then.
I do not condone violence, but I'm not blind either. Because of this moral rot, this is why I carry a concealed weapon. I'm not getting any younger and I don't have the strength and speed to fend off a pack of feral teenagers, homes that are near to me are being victims of home invasions almost on a daily basis, and I live in the County. I refuse to let myself or my wife because victims and a statistic in page 3 of the local news paper.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 4.28.11 @ 8:38AM
Melvin: Sometimes it seems to me, like we're in the final weeks, like Sodom and Gomorrah, before the fire reigns down on us from the sky. Maybe we've got it coming, huh? Don't look back!!
LMajito| 4.28.11 @ 9:06AM
sodom and gomorrah? no way...remember that God granted his friend the wish to spare the cities if Abe could find 10 righteous folks in there. not even counting his nephews' family he could (and btw Lot was not a principled one, the first thing he did after watching the destruction was to make wine, get drunk and commit incest with his two daughters).
so can we find 10 righteous persons in the us? i venture to say oh yeah...10 and more...remember that as so many bad things are bad here, there are thousands of good and Godly things that happen on a daily basis...we just don't see or hear about them...
Bob Grant| 4.28.11 @ 8:42AM
Good on you. Keep safe!
Tim the Enchanter| 4.28.11 @ 12:31PM
Sorry, Melvin, have to disagree with you on the "poverty and hunger-caused violence". That's straight out of that charlatan Richard Cloward's playbook, and it's demonstrably false. Evil and violence come from the WILL, not from poverty.
Melvin| 4.28.11 @ 12:48PM
Now I am talking about the Philippines not the United States with the hunger and poverty opinion. Here many people hurt people just for the mere thrill of it.
Paragraph Police!| 4.28.11 @ 2:20PM
We enjoy paragraphs.
Try it, you might too.
Impeach Don't Wait| 4.29.11 @ 12:02AM
And I felt violated because someone busted my (parked) car window for absolutely no reason.... God bless Mr. Nguyen. I can't imagine the horror that man went through, also probably not knowing if his wife was being beaten to death or not. Hmmm... "feral". Never thought about it, but that sounds like an appropriate term. Wild, undomesticated kids.
Ret. Marine| 4.28.11 @ 8:57AM
Just another reason why I carry Mr. .45 CDP Kimber around 24/7. The right to protect ourselves against this type of evilness, as well as the nerve of some in our gubmint has never been more clear to this Patriot and should be for all to reconize of its value. Just say no being a victim and yes I'll fight you straight to hell if necessary. The ball is in your court punk.
Maxwell| 4.28.11 @ 9:24AM
Ret. Marine, while I agree with you about the 45 ACP, I like diversity. Les Baer, Wilson, Brown, or even Springfield GI. However, as mush as I like diversity nothing will happen with Chris Christie and CCW here in Jersey.
chemman| 4.28.11 @ 8:40PM
Arizona can always use another good person/family. We got a early Christmas gift last year. We have open and concealed carry without needing a permit. I keep a Springfield Armory 45 ACP with me all the time.
Maxwell| 4.28.11 @ 9:00PM
chemman, if you read this tonight the wife said Arizona too. I have NO problem with it either! If not it it will be South Carolina. I must admit, I really do love my 'toys'.
I like the option of either open or concealed carry.
Chris Martel| 4.29.11 @ 3:11AM
For the first time in recent memory I like the way you celebrate diversity!! How 'bout Ruger, Sig Sauer, and mossberg? Yeee Haw!! I loves diversity!!!
LMajito| 4.28.11 @ 9:01AM
well i say use gun control, it always work...btw my definition of gun control is a steady hand and assertive/fearless trigger finger.
we as a society have become a group of cowards...totally paralyzed when we see incidents of violence...all afraid of being label this or that and way too worry about the opinions of the talking heads in tvland...yes including the guys at fox(who btw insists on showing clips of lib shows ad nauseaum such as last night's 'the view'...on and on...the reason i watched fox -not too much in the last 6 months, is to get away from the courics, stephenapoulus -right spelling??, nyt and other 'progressives'...they insist in giving them life by showing their clips endlessly)...
even o'reilly has become a joke of sorts...trying to be so 'balanced' that is sometimes akin to watching a bad comedian...
until we grow some intestinal fortitude and actually agree to stay out of out comfort zone, we'll watch the once great country go down the tubes while throwing the hands up in the air...
for starters, how about a couple of days for a national strike...i mean two days where the citizens don't buy or do a single thing other than spend the day outdoors with neighbors, friends and family...that means actually making the effort of getting of the threadmill at the local gym and walking to your next door, knocking and engaging in human interaction (read conversation)
we control the destiny of this nation...but as a society we're willing to do nothing, other than bitch, piss, moan and complain about how bad things are and how the conservs don't get a fair deal with the lib msm...
Le Cracquere| 4.28.11 @ 9:11AM
Nearly ANY fictional character has some basis in reality--an acquaintance, a figure in a news story, etc. This implies that somewhere out there, possibly still alive, is the old fellow who inspired the role of Mr. Miyagi (of "Karate Kid"). It is my profound hope that a group of would-be "Knockout Kings" targets him in the near future.
Bob Grant| 4.28.11 @ 9:23AM
wax on, wax off...some dead punk's coffin!
Sheila| 4.28.11 @ 10:18AM
Another day, another death in Black-Run America.
RCV| 4.28.11 @ 12:59PM
Yes, things were so much less violent when only whites were in charge. You're a sick puppy, Sheila.
Quartermaster| 4.28.11 @ 5:36PM
Alas, for you, they were far less violent.
Occam's Tool| 4.29.11 @ 1:07AM
I'm not so sure it's so much more violent now that we're less racist; I recall some "Strange Fruit."
The problem is not race; it is the decline of the family system due to the Welfare system. That is hitting Blacks hardest; harder than poor whites, although they too have horrible problems. The war on Poverty turned out to be the war on Black families. That's pretty much Moynihan's position, if I recall.
Pineapple1| 4.29.11 @ 7:07AM
And you are the perfect example of the DWL.
Petronius| 4.28.11 @ 10:43AM
The reason nothing will be done about this situation is that not one victim of the feral lowlife who rule city streets in this country is a Liberal lawyer or politician.
Fred| 4.28.11 @ 11:03AM
These actions are the results of moral relativism and having too much time on one hands, both products of run away liberalism.
Jon| 4.28.11 @ 11:30AM
THREE WORDS...
CONCEAL CARRY PERMIT!!!!!!!!!!!
SpiralArchitect| 4.28.11 @ 2:24PM
Reducing poverty and wanton behavior regarding
contraception and pre marital sex is a fine place to start.
Equally important is education. No, not public education but actual education.
Doctor Right| 4.28.11 @ 2:10PM
"Elex Levell"..???
Lemme' guess...His accomplice's names were "Dawntwan" and "JaMarcus", right?
Our inner cities are becoming sewer-holes, again. Happens whenever liberals have too much power for too long.
Stay in suburbia, if you can.
SpiralArchitect| 4.28.11 @ 2:25PM
Generating poverty is one of the oldest systems for control.
No BS there.
S&WM;&P| 4.28.11 @ 2:30PM
S&WM;&P, says it all!
R. Gruel| 4.28.11 @ 3:38PM
Enforce the death penalty, End all welfare (make a law that you must be 70 years old to get any government money), End abortion in ALL circumstances, and Accept marriage as only between man and woman, or you'll be sorry
warlord| 4.28.11 @ 5:18PM
Here in Maine, they call themselves "The One Punch Bunch". They have OPB inked on their necks,and
they walk the streets looking for someone to sucker punch, and run like hell when they do not knock out
their target.
Occam's Tool| 4.29.11 @ 1:09AM
You know, in rural Minnesota, this crap does not happen outside of the Reservations. And it doesn't happen there, either, unless drug fueled.
I'm so glad I live where I live.
Davey Jones| 4.28.11 @ 9:37PM
"The cops are still trying to make sense out of Hoang's murder." ????? There is no sense to be made out of this. The aggressors are predators, the victims are prey. The difference; the humans(?) attack for pleasure, the animals for survival. It's the inner city. There is no shortage of predators in the inner city.
Hillel| 4.29.11 @ 9:45AM
A friend of mine was a victim of a similar "game" in Paris. Fortunately it was a slap rather than a punch or a lead pipe. Still very upsetting.
Sam Levi| 4.29.11 @ 10:51AM
While I absolutely love seeing people advocate carrying concealed weapons, I will tell you all inequivocally, it is not enough. Too often, someone gets a concealed weapon and lacks either the ability (physical or mental) or the fortitude (moral) to use it. It is one thing to say "I am carrying concealed, I can defend myself" it is completely another to say, "I am carrying concealed, I will blow your ass back to Hell and sleep like a baby afterward."
I have been teaching self defense, armed and unarmed, for almost 20 years. I cannot tell you how many times I heard, "..but I don't want to hurt anyone." I usually replied, "then you are wasting my time and yours." People, I will put it to you the same way I have put it to every student I have had for 20 years, "How far are your really willing to go to defend yourself and your loved ones? Don't tell me, for only you can honestly answer that for yourself. It is between you and your g-d."
It is not only the fault of the "society" today for telling everyone that no matter what, it is not their fault. That is founded in a very badly misinterpreted version of christianity. Before anyone jumps on me, pay attention. I say this because those that I refer to as christian-light or better known as hypocirites, teach that no matter what you do wrong, because the christ died for the sins of man, all you have to do to be completely forgiven is to confess and repent before you die. They are being taught that there is no real consequence for their actions because they can still get into heaven. This is a perverse view of the teaching, but it is prevalent and has spawned the whole "I'm ok, you're ok movement."
I say it is bull squeeze. We are all accountable for our own actions, in this life and the next. To those that would destroy the gifts bestowed on us by God in direct violations of His commandments, I say, "Try to make me a mortal victim and you will meet the maker long before I do, and I will be able to defend my actions with a clear mind, heart, conscience, and spirit."
Kenn Paul| 5.9.11 @ 9:20PM
Sam Levi...I don't think I've ever quite had Christianity presented to me this way, and it is an absolute eye-opener. "Confess and repent before you die" means there are no adverse consequences. By god, you're right. Thanks for the insight, I gotta chew on this one for a while.
Appleby| 4.30.11 @ 8:45AM
I used to think it funny that the Atlanta Constitution prohibited identifying criminals (Victims of Society) by race, as if the publication of a name like Elex Levell Murphy wouldnt give anybody the answer.
Remember that Jefferson said we do not kill mad dogs as an example to society; we kill them to protect society. Creatures like these are mad dogs.
Funeral Guy | 5.1.11 @ 9:01PM
Urban yoots, eh? My goodness, whoever could that be?
Creative Recreation | 8.10.11 @ 9:42PM
is good