NewsOne’s Top 5 gives you a quick rundown of the viral stories we’re talking about today. White Man Who Targeted Elderly Black Man In “Knockout Game” Sentenced To 71 Months In Prison NBA Player Claims He Was Racially Profiled At High-End Jewelry Store, Owner Releases Apology Indiana Teen Arrested After Screaming “White Power” & “Kill […]
Friday's sentencing came after Conrad Alvin Barrett, 29, plead guilty over the summer. In December 2013, Barrett -- who was 27 at the time -- was charged with a hate crime for punching 79-year-old Roy Coleman, fracturing the man's jaw in two places.
Last month, 25-year-old Ashley Depew, accused a random Black “thug” of assaulting her in a “Knockout Game” attack, but her entire story has been exposed as a lie, reports St. Louis Post-Dispatch. RELATED: Teen Playing ‘Knockout’ Game Shot Twice By Intended Victim, Arrested [VIDEO] What Is The ‘Knockout’ Game? Depew was really hit by her boyfriend, Justin Simms, 25, and […]
Three New Jersey teens are currently locked up on murder charges after they allegedly punched a man to death during a game of “Knockout, according to the New York Daily News. The three teens, all from Jersey City, followed the homeless Hoboken man, Ralph Erick Santiago, 46, down a street back in September. One of […]
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