Who wouldn't have predicted this.
The Obama administration filed a federal hate-crimes charge Thursday against a man whom authorities accused of using the knockout game to target a black man, videotaping it, and then bragging about the assault to strangers.
The charge marks the first time the administration has taken action on a knockout case after the game became an Internet and media phenomenon. It chose a case in which the person accused is white, even though most other cases reported in the news have involved black assailants.
The suspect made a video of the attack November 24, the complaint said. In the video, he allegedly commented that the plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?
In this case, the man accused is 27-year-old Conrad Barrett who the Justice Department says attacked a 79-year-old black man in Fulshear, Texas, just west of Houston. Justice Department officials said they brought the case to make a point about hate crimes.
The Obama administration filed a federal hate-crimes charge Thursday against a man whom authorities accused of using the knockout game to target a black man, videotaping it, and then bragging about the assault to strangers.
The charge marks the first time the administration has taken action on a knockout case after the game became an Internet and media phenomenon. It chose a case in which the person accused is white, even though most other cases reported in the news have involved black assailants.
The suspect made a video of the attack November 24, the complaint said. In the video, he allegedly commented that the plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?
In this case, the man accused is 27-year-old Conrad Barrett who the Justice Department says attacked a 79-year-old black man in Fulshear, Texas, just west of Houston. Justice Department officials said they brought the case to make a point about hate crimes.
