The milestone came after a drop in weekly unemployment games. The markets fuelled by optimism over the strength of the recovery. In kansas the pilot that landed on the wrong airport has reached its destination, the pilot was confused. It should have touched down at an air force base. Those are the headlines. Consider this is next with antonio mora. Ill be back later. You can get the latest news on aljazeera. Com. The knockout game strads fear around the spreads fear around the country. Teens are coldcocking strangers. Its turned deadly four times. How widespread is the problem, what is the best place to stop it. We take you to a place struck by kids playing the game. Democrats choose a Nuclear Option, triggering a shift in power. Will the mood backfire with an explosion of ill will. Is the holiday airport traffic around thanksgiving about to become the new formal . Welcome to consider this, we begin with the knockout game. Some of the video is disturbing. Its a fad where players, in their teens, target random people and attempt to knock them out. Some perpetrators are children, its far from a childs game. There has been 18 recent attacks and four deaths attributed in the last two years to a crime that has spread across the country as the videos have gone viral. Al jazeeras Gianna Tobani looks at the trend. Watch as a gang of Team Approach a 50yearold Pittsburg School teacher. Sucker punched out cold. Another in new jersey. The game could turn deadly when the victims head smashes into the concrete, as happened with two victims this year. Romps reports from seven states suggest a trend. Knockout is a game teenagers play, where they dare, one of the guy, to randomly choose anybody walking down the street. Some say its random, others say theres a pattern for how offenders argument that their victims. It happens to be a jew. Hes referring to cases in a jewish neighbourhood where residents suspect the attacks were hate crimes. It was on this block that a 12yearold hebrew student was attacked on november 13th. New York Police Commissioner has a task force looking into the attacks to see if they were hate crimes. One reason they are not reported is the teens dont steal from the victims, they walk away. Will they take money or a cell phone . No, they naf, if you out. What is the point . For the fun of it. They think its funny. What is a joke to some is costing others their lives. For more im joined by dr Boyce Watkins, a founder of black World Coalition and a scholar in resident at syracuse. And dr willie gordon, a psychologist and the author of practical parenting, we are seeing more of these attacks recently or are hearing more about them. What do you think is happening . Well, i think teenagers have an inclination to engage in some degrees of social dooefians. Theres alarm that the fad could catch fire, especially since the media is grabbing this. 18 over two years is not a big number, but it will increase because teenagers know that it is the cool thing to do. I think that what you see is as a society and kids, they are desensitised to violence. You play a knock out, but you do it with ak47s and attacking citizens. Theres desensitiesition to violence and we are ignoring young people, its haunting us. The question is we dont know how many of the attacks occurred. New york city Police Commissioner ray kelly said some victims dont report the attacks because no robbery was involved, and in some cases they may not know what happened. We have 18 reported incidents, seven in new york, two in syracuse, one ties. Two in st. Louis, one died. One in chicago, who died and another in san diego. New york is the epicentre, there was talk that st. Louis was one of the worst places in the past. I know you have a friend who was attacked. What did she say in. Well, it was a fellow physician. She was walking down a street and surrounded by a group of young men. One swung on her and she avoided the punch and was, instead pushed. But unbeknownst to them this woman studied karate and stayed on her feet. She said, hey, what are you doing . Where are your parents . Get out of here. Go home. Whose taking care of you . So as a physician she recognised right away that these were young men with no purpose, no academic goals, had nothing to lose, knowing they could kill someone or injure them in a very gross way they didnt care. These are youngsters who dont care about life or themselves or the consequences that they may end up going to gaol tore killing someone. Its a big issue. Your friend may have the fear ipp stilled in here, im glad she is okay. As this gets publicity, are you concerned that fear will be instilled in people walking down the streets. We had people talking in the editorial meeting about how they are looking over their shoulders. What im concerned about that black youth are not stigmatised by this, where theres a fear of young black men and now because of these individuals who have done these bad things, i dont want to turning into a race situation where because we know mean jews have been attacked in brooklyn, that now they have to look over their shoulders or are afraid of young black males that approach them. I want to address race in a moment. The videos are popular, getting hundreds of thousands of hits and kids are laughing about it. Knock out they go to sleep when you hit them . Like for the fun of it, for little kids hitting people, knocking them out. They shouldnt do it, but people do dr Boyce Watkins, what went wrong, its chilling to listen to them talking about it as if its a game. One thing we are yet to learn as a society is neglected young people are desensitised in ignahant older people. When you look at what has happened in communities where the violence is taking place number one you have kids growing up playing video games like grand theft auto, and you are literally killing people on a regular basis. They like like real people. We have a generation of young people ignored by society. We dont invest in education or precool or afterschool programs. These kids have nothing to do. The idle mind is a devils workshop. We have incarcerated so many millions of parents who have kids who have grown up without structure in their households. This is whats. Do you see them as sociopaths or not understanding they can kill people or the consequences of their actions . Teenagers have tendencies that lead to social deviation. When i was a teen i did things i wouldnt do today. Now, whether that translates to violence comes down to an important factor. Mentorship. Ill give you an example. There was a wildlife reserve. What they didnt realise is there were no adult male elephants around to mentor the ado less ent. And they were doing things unnatural. For example, they were attacking and killing ryan oser uses. Elfantastic dont go this. When they had adult male elephants to mentor them. They control them. When they were not around theyd test strength by attacking people. If you listening to the language of teenagers, what do they say. They say we wanted to see if we could do the one hitter quitter. They are testing the strength because they have no mentors to slow them down saying, you shouldnt do this. We have a social media question from harmeli aregawi. I looked at recent data. Knock out is the 10th most popular search and 11,000 tweets in the last 24 hours. San diego had the latest incident on tuesday. How big a role does media play and does media tapes make it worse . When you have people at risk and as dr Boyce Watkins pointed out, when you have youngsters who dont have mentorship or the academic goals, theyll be more open to venting their anger, venting their frustration. Hitting people is a way for them to hit back at society. They feel they have nothing. They are at the bottom of the totem poll. By watching in this is a way for them to make a statement. People are giving them positive reinforcement by watching the videos. Its the wrong kind of reinforce they are getting high on this violence what about the role of the national media. Until this week none of the three big networks hadnt touched it, and the art is people dont want to touch it because its young black males. I think we need to cover the story, people to know what is going on and how selfdistructive it is. We are not glorifying this. You are talking about the ideology, how does it happen, what can we do about it and what do they need to be aware of. I hope young people realise what they are doing is not just se selfdistrulentive, its murderous, and parents need to step in and patrol their own children to teach them that what they are doing is almost not just malicious, but murderous. In light of what jeff gardere is staying, dr Boyce Watkins, what do you say to the criticism that African American leaders have not stepped up and talked about this. You argue about mentors and parents being there. What about African Americans speaking about it. I would argue you have two here good point. We are glad to have you both. Black leadership starts informant living room, with the parents. We need to look at a society at what we are doing with personalities. I know a family that was well structured and disciplined. There was a drug dealer in the family, nonjoint. They gave the father 140 years in prison and locked up his sister, mother and brother. There was a generalation of kids growing up without parents, and as a result these kids had a different life to what they would have had had their parents guided them. We need to realise we have millions of households where there were no parents to do anything. We have a responsibility to address the issue and not point out and say, bad black kids. It will go to core white children. This is not so much about just race, but about the socioeconomics. Lets hope both of you speaking out as you did, the attention to this stops it rather than encourages it. Dr Boyce Watkins, dr jeff gardere, thank you. Thank you for doing the story. Appreciate it. Coming up Senate Democrats go nuclear. Will the filibuster rule changes lead to consequence, and harmeli aregawi tracks the stop stories. We consider American Food may be changing ill tell you what, coming up. Join the conversationment. The senate made history thursday, stepping away from constitutional power of advise and consent on president ial appointments to a diminished power called advise and confirm. After a debate the senate voted 5248 to end the Minority Partys use of the filibuster to block appointments to everything but the supreme court. Its been known as the Nuclear Option. Most president ial appointees can be confirmed with 51 votes snowed of 60 required. Harry reid and president obama after the vote insisted the change was necessary to end what they called the republican obstructionism and get the government moving. Today we are on the side of the problem solvers. Everyone knows that what is going on is unfair and wrong. Im glad we have changed it. The pattern of obstruction is not normal, notway the founders envisioned. It is not obstruction on qualifications. Its to gum up the works. An unhappy Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell denied he was interested in retribution, but had a warning for democrats. Youll regret it, and maybe sooner than you think. Im joined by washington d. C. By bill schneider, and sure r, senior fellow at the think tank third way. Thank you both for being with us. Bill, when we talked about this, its an stream move. When we discussed it none of us thought it would happen this quickly. Will there be an explosion of ill will that will deepen the party divide. It can hardly get more ill than this year. What we will see is guerilla warfare. Republicans will sabotage everything obama wants to do. Theyll stage sneak attacks. They are determined to kill obamacare. They are as devoted to killing obamacare, as they were the vietnam war. Theyll resort to every tactic to do that. Before the vote democrats made a lot about the fact that 86 filibuster in history, 82 have been blocked. Are republicans right or democrats. Certainly what they tried to do when they were the minority in the senate, dealing with judicial appointments. I can take the easy way out saying both parties do the same thing for different reasons. Republicans are postponing the judicial appointments and confirmations because theres not a workload so why bother doing it. I dont know if thats the right argument to make. Democrats were doing it after bush. They were doing it on ideological bounds when they talked about the judges being appointed. One of the things to remember is a what bill said. It cannot go deeper. The idea that this will send them into turmoil. Theres no bipartisanship. Maybe from the bottom theyll find that the best way for the senate to function is with bipartisanship, they can build them. Its optimistic. Fantasy like. One can hope that your optimism is wellfounded. The word of the day bandied out is hypocrisy. One thing bringing it up is a sound we want to say of then senator obama talking against the Nuclear Option. Its the rite of free and open debate is taken away from the Minority Party millions of americans who ask us to be their voice, i fear the partisan atmosphere in washington will be poisoned to the point where no one will agree on anything. That doesnt serve anyones best interests. Is president obama a hypocrite for supporting the Nuclear Option when he condemned it in 2005. Youll hear that word. The filibuster was designed to support minority rights. In fact, the minority it was designed to support 100 years ago is a senate rule, its not in the constitution. That minority was southern white racists trying to protect the segregationist system. Democrats argue that minority rights are minority rule. Republicans are stopping the majority from getting anything done. That is not fair. When you said it puts into question the senates role, it doesnt. They can vote on president ial nominations. It says major ity rule. How is that for a radical movement. We are talking about judicial appointments and judges have to focus on precedent. The idea behind the senate, which different it from the house of representatives is the minority voice is louder. The majority rule, whilst sounding nice and appealing very different from southern white segregationists. They sort of are blurring the line between what the house of representatives does and the way they operate, and the way the senate does. Half of the senate is in the first term serving less than six years. A lot came from the house of representatives. And theyve never been in the minority. A lot of democrats have never been in the minority. To be fair to president obama, hes not the only politician taking one position. Here is what harry reid had to say in 2006. Our democracy works when the majority rules not with a fist but on outstretched and. The filibuster is there to guarantee this. The success of the Nuclear Option would mark a sad slide towards partisan crossfire and a lose of liberties. Not sufficient democrats, Mitch Mcconnell told the senate when it came to changing the filibuster, he didnt see a problem. A majority may adopt the rules. Its preposterous theyll assert and deny others to change it. Both sides singing different tunes toate years ago when they were on opposite sides. Is there no shame. Are they not embarrassed when they see themselves saying the opposite to these issues. Let me answer it this way. There is no shame. They are not embarrassed. They are taking a strong position. The democrats are arguing that republicans abused minority rights. Theres no question Congressional Services show the filibuster became routine. It was supposed to be used in extraordinary circumstances when a minority felt its rights were threatened. It no longer plays that role. Its routine. Senator mccain said he was trying to negotiate. They went ahead and rammed it through as they remanded obamacare through. Thats what the republicans say. Obamacare tried to filibuster. Democrats got around it. There was a complex manoeuvre. Its majority rule, the way the house operates. Its the democratics way. Respect for minority rights is important. It can be apuffed. I thought i would hear an historian in you. The filibuster is only 100 years old. It is not in the constitution. The filibuster. But lets move on. I want to get to michael on this and ask about the future. If the divide is deeper will anything get through. I spoke to someone who said, no way will a deal be reached by 2013 it may never happened. Is it threatening a bigger chance of a shutdown in january . Thats the thing. Republicans, if they want to look and do a victory lap over the fact that democrats and harry reid is the most hypocritical because he pushed it through. Were he to shut down the government theyd lose plus points. Mitch mcconnell may talk about 2015, and it will be a different set of circumstances. He has a race in 2014 before getting to 2015. One of the things that the republicans have to do is get off this quickly and get back to obamacare, where they were getting traction and talk about the budget and how its been ineffective. Thats what the senates job is to do. They havent been able to do that. We are arguing that this was a plan between the Senate Democrats and the white house. We will stay on top of those stories in days to come. Thank you for your type of. Time to see what is trending on al jazeeras website. With the melting pot that the u. S. Is, what we consider American Food is changing. Al Jazeera America digital reporter tell us us how immigrants spiced up american pallets. We see it with the malaysian hot sauce that is popular in the u. S. Bringing in there 60 million in sales. 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