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Teen arrested for Queens hate crime assault on Muslim man admits to playing 'knockout game'

Mohamed Rasheed Khan [pictured), 59, was attacked as he left his mosque in Queens. — Mohamed Rasheed Khan (pictured), 59, was attacked as he left his mosque in Queens.
(Council on American-Islamic Relations)

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Monday, June 20, 2016, 9:30 AM

A 14-year-old boy arrested for a hate crime assault on a Muslim man told police he and his friends were playing the vicious "knockout game," cops said on Monday.

The teen, whose name was withheld because of his age, was arrested for attacking Mohamed Rasheed Khan, 59, with two friends as the man left his Jamaica Ave. mosque near 205th St. in Hollis on June 1.

The boy admitted to investigators that one of his friends suggested they play the "knockout game" — a barbaric practice of trying to knock a random person unconscious with one punch, police said.

That's when the trio spotted Khan on his bicycle riding away from the Center for Islamic Studies.

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Teen arrested for Queens hate crime assault on Muslim man admits to playing 'knockout game'

Mohamed Rasheed Khan (pictured), 59, was attacked as he left his mosque in Queens.

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