Knockout game meets CCW

Judging from the way the assailant was talking during the interview, his "lesson learned" had more to do with victim selection than whether or not he should be playing the game. He didn't seem remorseful at all.

"...teens are playing it because they are seeing others doing it and getting away with it..."

This is essentially what I was talking about here.  The more the media publicizes this sort of stuff, the more popular it'll become. The more popular it becomes, the more the media will publicize it.  It's a vicious cycle; a self-fulfilling prophecy where the mere act of shining spotlight on this game will encourage others to play it.  How many kids are now going to be tempted to do this themselves simply because it's being presented as a "new thing" sweeping the nation?

IMO, the best way to snuff this out is to cut this game's 15 minutes of fame short. Local law enforcement should still deal with these incidents swiftly and harshly, just not on stage in front of a live studio audience, if you know what I mean.

We had and have had incidents like this in Columbia in the 5 Points area. One white kid was beaten so badly by a group of black kids he was in a coma for 3 months and has permanent daim bramage. During the trial it came out that the attack was racial motivated based solely on the guys race. These kids were all under age except one.

These guys are cowards. But cowards gain courage from groups. They're nobodies desperately seeking fame.

Indeed, and the media is going to continue to eat this up in the mean time, which is only going to encourage those nobodies to continue doing this.  With that being said, I suppose the only way to combat this media-fueled trend is to give the instances of arrest, defensive shootings, etc just as much (or more) media coverage.  That way, kids will get the impression this game is not really a "game",  but rather just a dumb idea that'll get you thrown in jail or killed.  The fact they are even framing this trend as 'a game' is going to make it more appealing to youths. 

Sometimes I don't think the media really understands the power they have, and the consequences that come from the stories they cover, and even the words they choose to use.  Games are fun and entertaining, they encourage competitiveness, they encourage getting the high score, and now they've associated all of those things with assaulting random strangers...all just by using the word "game".

QFT.

I know what you mean and I think that national attention will end up increasing these attacks if nothing else is done to stop them just like how you're saying. Meaning that no other measures are taken and societies attitudes on whether these attacks are somehow 'justified' because of past racial injustices stemming incidents from 40+ years ago.

I'm just pointing out that there's been some variant of these attacks going on for a long time and that this game came about with little attention payed to it by the MSM.

As much as I love laying blame at the doorstep on the liberal media this isn't really the truth here.

Think about the reasons why these attacks are committed, the motivation. Local celebrity, increased status within their crew, the chance to hurt others with little consequence and unleash some anger along with some racial hatred are pretty much it.

Some offenders are naturally going to want national attention, but in order to get that national attention they'd have to get arrested. Most aren't willing to do that.

They start getting sentenced to long prison terms if caught, if they're shot/stabbed/beat up/pepper sprayed themselves in defense and their own community starts shunning them and it isn't cool any longer and these attacks will stop.