The Knock-Out Game. A curious one way crime.

The Statue of Justice has a woman who is blindfolded, showing justice is blind. It must be to be objective. However, this is curious.  Or it it?

Katy man accused of ‘knockout’ hate crime

It took more than a week for 27-year-old Conrad Barrett to work up the courage to sucker-punch an elderly man in an apparent attempt to make himself famous. 

“The plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would it be nationally televised,” Barrett can be heard saying on cellphone video he took before the alleged attack on Nov. 24. 

On video he recorded, Barrett can be heard laughing and saying “knockout” before fleeing the scene, investigators said. 

Several videos he created were damning enough for prosecutors to charge him with a hate crime punishable by 10 years in federal prison, authorities said Thursday.
The video shows Barrett talking about playing the “knockout game” while driving around the parking lot of the Katy Mills mall, according to court records. There is also video of Barrett walking up to a frail 79-year-old man, saying, “How you doing?” before a loud smack is heard. Barrett punched the man in the face, breaking his jaw and dropping him to the pavement, investigators said. 

“Suspected crimes of this nature will simply not be tolerated,” said U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson... 

...Federal officials examined the phone to find several videos, including one of the alleged assault, and an arrest warrant was issued earlier this week. Taken into federal custody Thursday, Barrett will remain behind bars until he appears in court Friday... 

...Federal officials said Thursday that hate crime laws were created to address the type of allegations lodged against Barrett. 

“It is unimaginable in this day and age that one could be drawn to violently attack another based on the color of their skin,” said Stephen Morris, special agent in charge of the Houston FBI office. “We remind all citizens we are protected under the law from such racially motivated attacks, and encourage everyone to report such crimes to the FBI.” 

Shocking to activists 

The allegation shocked activists, including members of Houston Ministers Against Crime. 

“That’s not just a hate crime. That’s ignorance, evil, mental illness,” said the Rev. Robert Gilmore, president of Real Urban Ministry. “We don’t tolerate people like that. ‘The knockout game’ typically involves teenagers. A 27-year-old is scandal. He has to be admonished by the community.” 

The Houston chapter of the Anti-Defamation League applauded law enforcement for the arrest. 

“By investigating this alleged assault as a hate crime, law enforcement officers send a message that these ‘knockout attacks’ aren’t a game,” said Martin Cominsky, the league’s director. “They are crimes that should be taken seriously and should be considered hate crimes when they appear to be motivated by race, religion, or other characteristics that a person cannot change.”

Now I'm glad to see this POS off the streets but I'm curious that the only time I've seen "Hate crimes" being filed in this trend is when a black man was assaulted by a white man.  But for some reason, our esteemed Department of Justice is not interested in black on white crime.  For instance, this is not a hate crime in the minds of the feds:

And I wonder if Eric Holder sent help to New York here:

Police Added in Brooklyn Neighborhood Amid "Knockout Game" Attacks 

The NYPD has put extra officers in a Brooklyn neighborhood where as many as eight people have been smacked or punched as part of a known trend that targets random victims, mostly white Jewish people, on the street. 

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Wednesday that some of the attacks were being investigated as hate crimes.The suspects in the Brooklyn attacks have all been black teens, police said. 

Some victims have been slapped, some have been knocked down. The assaults are not robberies. 

"A phrase that is used is 'polarbearing,' or 'polar bear,'" Kelly said. "Knockout has also been used."...

 Or here:

Thugs target N.Y. Jews in disturbing ‘Knockout’ game 

A series of unprovoked attacks on Jews in New York City could be part of a disturbing new game among inner-city youths called the “Knockout” game or “Get the Jew.” 

The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is looking into a series of attacks on Jews in Brooklyn, but videos of gangs playing the game are cropping up all over the country. 

The name of the game is to show one’s machismo by sucker-punching an unsuspecting victim and knocking them out cold. Video surveillance of young blacks playing the game have cropped up in major cities all over the country. 

One Jewish man in Brooklyn told CBS New York that his 12-year-old son was attacked last Wednesday because he was dressed in traditional Jewish clothing. 

“It’s clearly anti-Semitism,” he said. “One, full strength with his fist, whacked him, punched him, on the side of the face, full force.” 

CBS reports that a teacher was attacked in Pittsburgh, and in London, a teen was hit from behind. On Nov. 10, a 78-year-old woman was attacked in Brooklyn. 

Video also shows a 19-year-old Jewish man being sucker-punched in Brooklyn. 

“He was actually holding an expensive camera. And they punched him and nothing was stolen,” Rabbi Yaacov Behrman told CBS New York. “And they’re playing a game: ‘Knockout.’ ‘Knock out the Jew,’ maybe. And they’re going around the neighborhood punching Jews.” 

Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind said the attacks are not about robbing people, but about targeting Jews. 

“I think there have been a total of eight [incidents of anti-Semitism] since September, middle of September,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said, CBS New York reported.

The point of this post.  Like any "hate crime", i.e. a crime based on race or religion or other protected class, the protection is only directed one way.  I've heard many a black "leader" say a black man cannot, by definition, but a racist.  So race based crimes can only go on way, white on black.

Again the words of MLK, "...judged not on the color of their skin of but on the content of their character..."  But blind justice is not going to come from a Justice Department led by a thug with a serious chip on his shoulder.  This country deserves better.