A film clip shows a young black man walk up behind a white couple, and sucker punch the man. The reporter, Liam Martin says the same man punched two others placing one in hospital from his injuries. From the many video clips I've seen of this same kind of street attack of a young black male attacking white victims, it is likely that this was in fact an example of the knockout attacks. It is how they are done. You can see hundreds of these attacks on the web site
whitegirlbleedalot.com
It is run by award winning journalist, Colin Flaherty who wrote a book of the same title White Girl Bleed A Lot, describing such attacks across the nation.
Closely tied to the attacks are denial by police and journalists that these are knockout attacks black suspects targeting white victims. Flaherty documents this pattern over and over, again and again. Cambridge police did not post any alert on their web site as of Monday February 17, 2014 at about 4:00 PM. If there is a young black man (with or without "mental issues") who randomly attacks white people without provocation, walking about Cambridge, do citizens have a need to know this? Why does it require a television station to alert the public? The Cambridge Chronicle did not have a report about these attacks at the above time, two days after the attacks. Link to report published later (5:17 PM) is below.
With regard to the Cambridge attack and report there are some typical nonsensical and intentionally misleading comments by Cambridge police. The irrational attitudes are supported by the opinions of persons interviewed by Liam Martin.
Martin reports that Cambridge police could not find the suspect. That means they do not know who he is. But Martin adds, "The police say 'They believe he suffers from a mental health issue.'" Wow! What makes them say that if they do not know the suspect? Could it be that Cambridge police believe that all people who commit crimes have mental health issues? Or that all persons with a disability are violent criminals? Do they believe that all persons accused of mental illness are violent? It is the pervasive irrational belief among police and prosecutors in Massachusetts. It is also irrational nonsense, bias. It suggests that Cambridge police openly express their negative bias toward persons they believe have "mental health issues" as Mr. Martin reports. And what if the man exhibits "mental health issues?" What is the connection to violence? To crime? And if the man has "mental health issues" why does that mean it was NOT a knockout attack?
Alex Farrell, employed at BoConcepts furniture store is qutoed by Martin saying, "I don't know what was going through his head but he was certainly disturbed." Oh? If he does not know what was in his head, how does he know he was disturbed? Maybe he was thinking "I just feel like punching out some white guy." Maybe he felt like exercising his muscles. How does Farrell arrive at disturbed? Is that more bias against troubled persons? Are all emotionally disturbed persons violent? Are most of them violent? Do most people believe that disturbed persons are violent?
Farrell added: "It's hard to really find an explanation, for, for things like this. Because it was unprovoked." Yet the Cambridge police assure the television reporter that it was NOT a knockout attack. How do they know that if they do not know who the suspect is?
It is a violation of local, state and U.S. laws for police to discriminate against persons with disabilities. Yet they do every day and seldom is there any public disourse objecting to this abuse of power. My efforts to get the attention of city, state and U.S. officials about this unlawful pervasive abuse, have been ignored. Taxpayer funded human services corporations and professionals remain silent about this improper if not illegal police attitude toward persons with disabilities. The local Cambridge newspaper refuses to publish my complaints. The local taxpayer funded PBS television station still denies on air access to victims of such bias on their broadcasts. The prominent public television personality Emily Rooney, former News Director at WCVB, refused to address this issue for more than ten years. She threatened to have me banned from Boston when I kept complaining about the unlawful denial of equal access to taxpayer funded media.
According to this WCVB television reporter the Cambridge police state unequivocally that it was NOT a knockout attack. How do they know that, if they do not know who the suspect is? Cambridge police state "They believe the suspect is either mentally ill or was under the influence of substances." Really? Are all violent crimes a result of mental illness and/or substances? No more evil? No more sociopaths? Psychopaths? Aggression? Hate? No more premeditation?
Finally whenever the local newspaper in Cambridge reports crime, they report only the street not the business near or at where the crimes are committed. Often they do not reveal the identity by race or ethnicity of the suspects. It is not clear if the police withhold that information or the newspaper does it. In any case it shows how provincial, mindless and unhelpful the local government and/or its alleged watchdog journalists are.
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[video embedded]
http://www.wcvb.com/news/cambridge-police-seek-suspect-who-punched-three-in-head/24521712
Cambridge police seek suspect who punched three in head
UPDATED 5:29 PM EST Feb 17, 2014
Attacks reported on Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge
WCVB-TV
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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/02/16/camera-captures-sucker-punch-attack-on-cambridge-sidewalk-2/
Camera Captures Sucker Punch Attack On Cambridge Sidewalk
February 16, 2014 11:44 PM
[CBS Boston Video]
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[From article]
"The assault investigations are ongoing, but as of this morning no arrest has been made," said Jack Albert, deputy superintendent of the Cambridge Police Department. "We believe at this point, that these assaults were not a case of ‘Knockout,’ but a situation where an individual who was either under the influence or suffering from some type of mental illness was responsible for the assaults."
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140217/NEWS/140216419
Police: Man punches four random people near Harvard Square
Posted Feb. 17, 2014 @ 5:19 pm
Cambridge Chronicle
Cambridge, Mass.
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Transcript of television report WCVB-TV (ABC Boston affiliate)
With regard to the Cambridge attack and report there are some typical nonsensical and intentionally misleading comments by Cambridge police. The irrational attitudes are supported by the opinions of persons interviewed by Liam Martin.
Martin reports that Cambridge police could not find the suspect. That means they do not know who he is. But Martin adds, "The police say 'They believe he suffers from a mental health issue.'" Wow! What makes them say that if they do not know the suspect? Could it be that Cambridge police believe that all people who commit crimes have mental health issues? Or that all persons with a disability are violent criminals? Do they believe that all persons accused of mental illness are violent? It is the pervasive irrational belief among police and prosecutors in Massachusetts. It is also irrational nonsense, bias. It suggests that Cambridge police openly express their negative bias toward persons they believe have "mental health issues" as Mr. Martin reports. And what if the man exhibits "mental health issues?" What is the connection to violence? To crime? And if the man has "mental health issues" why does that mean it was NOT a knockout attack?
Alex Farrell, employed at BoConcepts furniture store is qutoed by Martin saying, "I don't know what was going through his head but he was certainly disturbed." Oh? If he does not know what was in his head, how does he know he was disturbed? Maybe he was thinking "I just feel like punching out some white guy." Maybe he felt like exercising his muscles. How does Farrell arrive at disturbed? Is that more bias against troubled persons? Are all emotionally disturbed persons violent? Are most of them violent? Do most people believe that disturbed persons are violent?
Farrell added: "It's hard to really find an explanation, for, for things like this. Because it was unprovoked." Yet the Cambridge police assure the television reporter that it was NOT a knockout attack. How do they know that if they do not know who the suspect is?
It is a violation of local, state and U.S. laws for police to discriminate against persons with disabilities. Yet they do every day and seldom is there any public disourse objecting to this abuse of power. My efforts to get the attention of city, state and U.S. officials about this unlawful pervasive abuse, have been ignored. Taxpayer funded human services corporations and professionals remain silent about this improper if not illegal police attitude toward persons with disabilities. The local Cambridge newspaper refuses to publish my complaints. The local taxpayer funded PBS television station still denies on air access to victims of such bias on their broadcasts. The prominent public television personality Emily Rooney, former News Director at WCVB, refused to address this issue for more than ten years. She threatened to have me banned from Boston when I kept complaining about the unlawful denial of equal access to taxpayer funded media.
According to this WCVB television reporter the Cambridge police state unequivocally that it was NOT a knockout attack. How do they know that, if they do not know who the suspect is? Cambridge police state "They believe the suspect is either mentally ill or was under the influence of substances." Really? Are all violent crimes a result of mental illness and/or substances? No more evil? No more sociopaths? Psychopaths? Aggression? Hate? No more premeditation?
Finally whenever the local newspaper in Cambridge reports crime, they report only the street not the business near or at where the crimes are committed. Often they do not reveal the identity by race or ethnicity of the suspects. It is not clear if the police withhold that information or the newspaper does it. In any case it shows how provincial, mindless and unhelpful the local government and/or its alleged watchdog journalists are.
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[video embedded]
http://www.wcvb.com/news/cambridge-police-seek-suspect-who-punched-three-in-head/24521712
Cambridge police seek suspect who punched three in head
UPDATED 5:29 PM EST Feb 17, 2014
Attacks reported on Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge
WCVB-TV
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http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/02/16/camera-captures-sucker-punch-attack-on-cambridge-sidewalk-2/
Camera Captures Sucker Punch Attack On Cambridge Sidewalk
February 16, 2014 11:44 PM
[CBS Boston Video]
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[From article]
"The assault investigations are ongoing, but as of this morning no arrest has been made," said Jack Albert, deputy superintendent of the Cambridge Police Department. "We believe at this point, that these assaults were not a case of ‘Knockout,’ but a situation where an individual who was either under the influence or suffering from some type of mental illness was responsible for the assaults."
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140217/NEWS/140216419
Police: Man punches four random people near Harvard Square
Posted Feb. 17, 2014 @ 5:19 pm
Cambridge Chronicle
Cambridge, Mass.
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Transcript of television report WCVB-TV (ABC Boston affiliate)
5:00 PM newscast Monday February 17, 2014.
Liam Martin reported. "This was Saturday [February 15, 2014] afternoon, broad daylight the suspect punched someone up on Massachusetts Avenue, punched his second here at the intersection of Dana Street and then a third outside of the BoConcept furniture store. Three victims in about thirty minutes. Cambridge police on the lookout for this man [shows video clip] who left one person in the hospital and two more injured, after a string of random attacks."
Joe Gioviglio, cleaning snow on Dana Street: "I heard yelling and screaming over there."
Liam Martin: "Joe Gioviglio said he heard a commotion Saturday afternoon on Massachusetts Avenue. The suspect had punched his first victim in the face. He then walked up Mass Ave. to the intersection with Dana Street, punched his second man in the head, swung and missed at a third here at the Cellar Restaurant, and then this [video plays again] the suspect caught on camera, rushes up behind a couple from Winchester and sucker punches the man in the head."
Gioviglio: "It's a little like shocking. You know, I mean. Especially if I was here with my family. Like I bring my daughter into Boston, three-year-old daughter, every weekend. And so. I can't even imagine that happening when I'm here with her."
Liam Martin: "Cambridge police said they canvassed the area Saturday but couldn't find the suspect. They believe he suffers from a mental health issue."
Alex Farrell: "I don't know what was going through his head but he was certainly disturbed."
Liam Martin: "Alex Farrell spoke with us yesterday (Sunday). He works at BoConcept and he's pictured here [video clip plays] helping the last victim. He and residents along Mass Ave. stunned by such a random act of violence."
Farrell: "It's hard to really find an explanation, for, for things like this. Because it was unprovoked."
Liam Martin: "Now there was some thought initially that these attacks could have been part of a national trend called knockout game. Cambridge police say that is not the case. They believe the suspect is either mentally ill or was under the influence of substances. Live in Cambridge, Liam Martin, WCVB News Center Five."
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Transcript of CBS Boston affiliate WBZ-TV Channel 4
February 17, 2014 11:00 PM Newscast.
Lisa Hughes, studio anchor: "Now a WBZ exclusive. They never saw it coming. Victims of a random attack now sharing their story. This is video though that is hard to watch. A man walks up behind this couple in Cambridge then suddenly slugs them. And they weren't the only victims. Let's get to Jim Armstrong who is live in Cambridge with the interviews you will see only here on WBZ. Jim?"
Jim Armstrong: "Lisa, three different victims in this case. All of them asked us not to use their names on television. All of them tell a very similar story, namely, they were walking this weekend right here on Mass Ave. when out of nowhere and for no reason they were savagely attacked."
White man victim with dark facial hair, black cap and glasses: "Before I knew it, I was like just punched in the face. And he was just, he just took off. [Shows his black facial scars]"
Armstrong: "This man the first of three victims Saturday afternoon. He's a Harvard [University] Medical School neurobiologist now nursing his bruises."
White man first victim: "There's nothing I could have done differently, really. I mean there's no time to react."
Armstrong: "Different victims tell the same story and you can watch it happen here to another guy caught on a store surveillance system. The suspect approaches, strikes and moves on. In this case he was apparently screaming, 'So you think that's funny?' before he attacked."
White woman with long blond hair: "It took me a long time actually to process what had happened. But whenever I did I looked up and he was just casually walking away still screaming."
Armstrong: "After this woman's boyfriend was punched the couple retreated to the store for help."
White woman: "I think it's more, 'I can't believe that that happened. And you're just walking down the street and you get struck for doing absolutely nothing. It makes you a little, ah, nervous even to be out sometimes."
Armstrong: "Even more so for the third victim."
White man with knit cap with red stripe, glasses: "He cries like an animal. And, uh, he then, uh, uh, hurt me with hand, with his hand."
Armstrong: "He's a visiting scholar at Tufts University. You can see him stumble into the same store with his umbrella after being attacked as well. "
White Tufts man victim: "To me it's really shocking, surprising to me. Because I thought that Boston was a quiet city."
Armstrong: "The suspect was described as a twenty something black man wearing a black coat, dark knit cap and blue jeans, with a black sling-style backpack."
First victim: "It could have been a lot worse I suppose. But this is the worst weekend I've had in a long time, possibly ever. [Laughs]"
Armstrong: "All these victims also have something else in common. They tell us they desperately want to see this guy caught, if for no other reason, they say, than to make sure he doesn't do this to someone else. Live in Cambridge, Jim Armstrong, WBZ News. Lisa."
Liam Martin reported. "This was Saturday [February 15, 2014] afternoon, broad daylight the suspect punched someone up on Massachusetts Avenue, punched his second here at the intersection of Dana Street and then a third outside of the BoConcept furniture store. Three victims in about thirty minutes. Cambridge police on the lookout for this man [shows video clip] who left one person in the hospital and two more injured, after a string of random attacks."
Joe Gioviglio, cleaning snow on Dana Street: "I heard yelling and screaming over there."
Liam Martin: "Joe Gioviglio said he heard a commotion Saturday afternoon on Massachusetts Avenue. The suspect had punched his first victim in the face. He then walked up Mass Ave. to the intersection with Dana Street, punched his second man in the head, swung and missed at a third here at the Cellar Restaurant, and then this [video plays again] the suspect caught on camera, rushes up behind a couple from Winchester and sucker punches the man in the head."
Gioviglio: "It's a little like shocking. You know, I mean. Especially if I was here with my family. Like I bring my daughter into Boston, three-year-old daughter, every weekend. And so. I can't even imagine that happening when I'm here with her."
Liam Martin: "Cambridge police said they canvassed the area Saturday but couldn't find the suspect. They believe he suffers from a mental health issue."
Alex Farrell: "I don't know what was going through his head but he was certainly disturbed."
Liam Martin: "Alex Farrell spoke with us yesterday (Sunday). He works at BoConcept and he's pictured here [video clip plays] helping the last victim. He and residents along Mass Ave. stunned by such a random act of violence."
Farrell: "It's hard to really find an explanation, for, for things like this. Because it was unprovoked."
Liam Martin: "Now there was some thought initially that these attacks could have been part of a national trend called knockout game. Cambridge police say that is not the case. They believe the suspect is either mentally ill or was under the influence of substances. Live in Cambridge, Liam Martin, WCVB News Center Five."
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Transcript of CBS Boston affiliate WBZ-TV Channel 4
February 17, 2014 11:00 PM Newscast.
Lisa Hughes, studio anchor: "Now a WBZ exclusive. They never saw it coming. Victims of a random attack now sharing their story. This is video though that is hard to watch. A man walks up behind this couple in Cambridge then suddenly slugs them. And they weren't the only victims. Let's get to Jim Armstrong who is live in Cambridge with the interviews you will see only here on WBZ. Jim?"
Jim Armstrong: "Lisa, three different victims in this case. All of them asked us not to use their names on television. All of them tell a very similar story, namely, they were walking this weekend right here on Mass Ave. when out of nowhere and for no reason they were savagely attacked."
White man victim with dark facial hair, black cap and glasses: "Before I knew it, I was like just punched in the face. And he was just, he just took off. [Shows his black facial scars]"
Armstrong: "This man the first of three victims Saturday afternoon. He's a Harvard [University] Medical School neurobiologist now nursing his bruises."
White man first victim: "There's nothing I could have done differently, really. I mean there's no time to react."
Armstrong: "Different victims tell the same story and you can watch it happen here to another guy caught on a store surveillance system. The suspect approaches, strikes and moves on. In this case he was apparently screaming, 'So you think that's funny?' before he attacked."
White woman with long blond hair: "It took me a long time actually to process what had happened. But whenever I did I looked up and he was just casually walking away still screaming."
Armstrong: "After this woman's boyfriend was punched the couple retreated to the store for help."
White woman: "I think it's more, 'I can't believe that that happened. And you're just walking down the street and you get struck for doing absolutely nothing. It makes you a little, ah, nervous even to be out sometimes."
Armstrong: "Even more so for the third victim."
White man with knit cap with red stripe, glasses: "He cries like an animal. And, uh, he then, uh, uh, hurt me with hand, with his hand."
Armstrong: "He's a visiting scholar at Tufts University. You can see him stumble into the same store with his umbrella after being attacked as well. "
White Tufts man victim: "To me it's really shocking, surprising to me. Because I thought that Boston was a quiet city."
Armstrong: "The suspect was described as a twenty something black man wearing a black coat, dark knit cap and blue jeans, with a black sling-style backpack."
First victim: "It could have been a lot worse I suppose. But this is the worst weekend I've had in a long time, possibly ever. [Laughs]"
Armstrong: "All these victims also have something else in common. They tell us they desperately want to see this guy caught, if for no other reason, they say, than to make sure he doesn't do this to someone else. Live in Cambridge, Jim Armstrong, WBZ News. Lisa."
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