Three Arabic men who shouted anti-Semitic slurs attacked a Jewish scholar teaching in Paris.
The reports from Paris police say the three men grabbed the victim and threw him against a wall. The victim was then beaten in the face until his nose was broken and deformed. They also broke bones around his eyes.
They then threw the victim to the ground, ripped his clothing and drew a swastika on his chest.
During the attack, then men shouted “death to the Jews” and repeatedly called the victim a “dirty Jew” before punching him.
The attackers ran when the victim’s cries drew attention of people in the area.
French officials have reported a significant rise in anti-Semitic attacks in the last few weeks.
A British citizen who is a Hasidic Jew was brutally attacked on a New York street in what members of the Jewish community are calling another example of the “knockout game.”
While police are refusing to acknowledge the attack was a “knockout” attack, at least one public official says the assault on the 65-year-old man certainly appears to fit the criteria.
“He was attacked from behind by two individuals, brutally attacked,” Democratic New York City Councilman David Greenfield said. “They did not take anything from him, and he was in such bad condition that he had to be hospitalized.”
The man had traveled to New York for a wedding. He was attacked on the street in Brooklyn as he left the wedding.
The NYPD has increased patrols in the areas where the “knockout game” began in October last year. Police are reportedly looking at surveillance video of the assault for clues.
Two California students are fighting back against a college professor who assaulted them and took away their pro-life signs.
Thrin and Joan Short were part of an pro-life event at the University of California when Associate Professor Mireille Miller-Young ripped the signs they were carrying form their hands. When the girls attempted to get their signs back, the professor kicked and pushed them.
The professor, who teaches feminist studies, claims she had a “moral right” to take the signs from the people who were opposing abortion. The professor is also known for showing pornography in her classes to her students.
Joan Short told Fox News the real offending matter in this incident is abortion itself and that if someone is offended by the process of abortion they should stand up for the life of unborn children.
Santa Barbara police are investigating the incident.
A man who reportedly was “fed up” with his infant son’s crying bit the nose off the child.
Joshua Cooper, 18, also caused the child to suffer a fractured skill and a brain hemorrhage.
Doctors at North Bay Medical Center made the determination that the child’s nose had been severed after the baby was rushed in bleeding from the face. A full examination determined the other injuries.
The child was rushed to Oakland Children’s Hospital for his severe injuries.
Police took Cooper into custody and charged him with child cruelty and aggravated mayhem.
Wrongly imprisoned American pastor Saeed Abedini was shackled by prison guards at an Iranian hospital and then refused potentially life saving surgery.
The American Center for Law and Justice, who has been trying to obtain Abedini’s release, said that while the pastor was awaiting surgery with an elderly relative, the guards came in and shackled him to the bed. His relative was then forcibly removed from the room by the Iranian guards.
Abedini has been in need of abdominal surgery because of multiple beatings during his time in Iranian prisons. The ACLJ says he was sent back to the prison with only some medication to help him with pain.
The ACLJ has noted the questionable timing of Abedini’s hospital transfer and return to prison. The pastor was taken to the hospital when the High Representative of the European Union arrived in Iran. The EU has been much more active in raising the issue about Pastor Abedini than the American government. The moment that Representative Catherine Ashton departed the country, Abedini was seized and returned to the prison.
“This disturbing turn of events reiterates the need to keep pressure on Iran,” the ACLJ said in a statement.
A copy of the Message translation of the Bible was more than a spiritual lifesaver for a Dayton, Ohio bus driver.
49-year-old Rickey Waggoner, a driver for the Dayton Regional Transit Authority, had been working on his bus when he was approached by three youths. The youths shot Waggoner in the chest at point blank range.
However, a copy of the Message Bible that Waggoner had in his pocket stopped both of the bullets. Police say the Bible saved Waggoner’s life.
While not specifically attributing the act to divine will, a Dayton police officer said there had to be something special that happened for the bus driver.
“There was obviously some kind of intervention involved in this incident because he should probably not be here,” Dayton Police Sergeant Michael Pauley told the Dayton Daily News.
Police believe the attack was a gang initiation because Waggoner reported one of the youths said “if you want to be all the way in the club” to the one who pulled the trigger.
The man who created the Message translation, Eugene Peterson, said that he had heard of similar incidents in World War II where Bibles stopped bullets.
“It’s good to be in the club,” Peterson told Fox News.
A school in England shocked parents by sending home letters that they have been catching students as young as six acting out scenes from the video game series Grand Theft Auto.
The letter says that they have been acting out violent scenes that have resulted in several students and bystanders being injured. The students were also caught forcing other students to participate in reenactments of the game’s sexual assault scenes.
The game’s latest installment, Grand Theft Auto 5, has told more than 32 million copies worldwide. The game is labeled for Adults Only.
“Until I went online and checked the content of the game, I thought it was just a bit of swearing and some shooting,” head teacher Morian Morgan said. “I think some of the parents will tell you that they have been equally naïve.”
He stressed he wasn’t condemning parents for not knowing the game’s content.
Four workers at a New York group home have been fired after they were found to be causing the disabled residents of the home to fight for their amusement.
The workers shot video of the fights on their cell phones.
Erin McHenry, Justin McDonald, Stephen Komara and Rosemary Vanni are all facing a charge of endangering the welfare of a disabled person along with other individual charges. Bail was set at $10,000 for all but Vanni who did not appear at court and had a warrant issued for her arrest.
The group reportedly made two 50-year-old men who had the mental capacity of preschoolers fight with each other. When one was knocked out of his wheelchair by the others, the workers can be heard on the video praising the one who beat him.
All four workers will likely face prison time if convicted.
A man in the Houston, Texas area is facing hate crimes charges after being indicted for a knockout game attack.
Conrad Alvin Barrett, 27, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday.
Barrett is accused of stalking a 79-year-old black man, striking him in the face which broke his jaw in two places and then stood laughing over the man yelling “knockout” as the man fell.
Barrett videotaped the attack and showed it to various friends before waiving it around in a bar where it was viewed by an off duty police officer.
Barrett remains in custody. Defense attorneys have said that Barrett has bipolar disorder and was not on his medication at the time of the attack.
A New York teenager has been arrested after he posted a video online showing himself engaging in the knockout game.
Devin Alexander was taken into custody on a probation violation charge in Rochester, New York. A spokesman for the department did not say how Alexander violated his probation but said they were keeping him in custody.
The video posted on Facebook showed Alexander telling the camera he was going to hit an old lady with snowball when she came outside a store. Instead, Alexander delivered a roundhouse punch to the back of the woman’s head.
Police said it was likely the cameraman in the incident will also face charges connected to the assault.