'Knockout Game' Leaves Another Victim Dead

Restaurant waiter in Italy succumbs after being punched in head

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America apparently has exported the “Knockout Game.”

In Italy, a restaurant waiter died after being punched in the head while walking in the city center in Pisa, not far from the famed Leaning Tower, reported the Italian language Il Gazzettino and the English-language The Local.

Zakir Hoassini of Bangladesh, who worked in an Indian restaurant, had been out walking in the city center when he was hit in an attack characteristic of the so-called Knockout Game, a vicious, racially charged act in which apparently random passers-by are punched.

Hoassini died only a day after the attack.

The Local said the murder has caused uproar among Pisa’s Bangladeshi community, which rallied Tuesday night in the area of the attack, demanding “truth and justice.”

Hundreds of examples of the Knockout Game are documented in Colin Flaherty’s book “White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It.”

Pisa police said they believed they were close to finding the attacker after a surveillance camera video showed the man, described as Italian with a “hefty” physique, provoking Hoassini then punching him.

The reports said the suspect was with several others.

The Local said one theory is that the gang was playing the Knockout Game, which would be the first reported attack of its kind in Italy

But the attacks, mostly by black youth against whites, have been reported all over the U.S.

For example, the New York Daily News reported in March that an attacker was caught on video launching “a hellacious haymaker” that knocked out Kyle Rodgers, 23, after he had left the Sweet & Vicious Bar and was heading to another bar.

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