Student's beating death sparks outrage (Obama's community organizing really paying off)

msnbc ^ | 9/28/2009 | msnbc

[tobyhill]

Three teenagers were charged Monday in the beating death of a 16-year-old Chicago honor roll student on his way home from school, a melee captured on a cell phone video that shows a group striking him with boards and kicking him as he lay on a sidewalk.

The death of Derrion Albert, a sophomore at Christian Fenger Academy High School, on Thursday has reignited community outrage over chronic violence involving city students and is putting pressure on school and police officials to address gang problems that often are at the root of such violence.

The Chicago public school system is the nation's third-largest and has about 407,000 students in 666 schools. More than 30 students were killed in 2008, according to district figures, and this year's toll could be higher.

[Cheetahcat]

One could not ash for better neighbors around the family\s

[Candor7]

666 Schools in Chicago.

X The Mark of the Beast! X

( jus tingly leggin some of yah!!!)

[Signalman]

It’s the “Chicago way”

[Cheetahcat]

One could not ask for better neighbors around the family\s

[tobyhill]

I thought that was kind of odd myself.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Community Organizing advocates for essentially uncontrolled welfare destroys families, which fosters gangs. After a couple of generations, it is darned hard to reverse.

[dalebert]

sad but i fear it will only get worse

[TheWriterTX]

God, please take this young man and his family into Your arms.

[not2worry]

Sounds like these gangs are becoming a cross between the Black Panthers and Hell's Angels.

Prayers for the young victim, his family, friends and classmates.

BTW, I believe we should rethink the “juvenile” justice system. Juvie Detention is a joke among these thugs!

[Retired Greyhound]

Wouldn’t be suprised if this neighborhood was nearby where Obama was an organizer.

This crap won’t stop until members of these communities stand up and start fighting back.

They can start by getting rid of the corrupt politicians that hookwink and bamboozle them into perpetual poverty, promising the same reforms to the same problems, year after year.

[tobyhill]

The gangs are empowered because they have their excuse in office.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Hell’s Angels protect their own but are not known for getting bystanders involved in their murder and mayhem.

[sodpoodle]

This is a really good time for Barack to book it overseas to try and sell Chicago as a site for the Olympic games.

He would better serve the nation to stay here and take care of bidness.

Oh maybe not!

[tobyhill]

Community Organizers don’t teach the community to rise up against gangs, they teach them to embrace gangs.

[eeevil conservative]

“I want you to get in their faces” Obama to his base about fellow Americans....

let’s talk...to Communists and Terrorists....

amazing...

[tired1]

I have a good idea. Why couldn't we host the next Olympics there?

[randomhero97]

Amen.

This was a sharp kid who turned down a gang. I saw the video and the kid done everything he could do to defend himself. I was fuming watching that video.

[Kenton]

OK, are we supposed to take notice of this black-on-black stuff, or is that raiciss? Because I don't want to criticise that which I will later be told is just part of black culture. Maybe the killers were just "keeping it real", which I haven't really figured out yet.

I guess I won't worry about it, the usual suspects will be having a rally where they'll blame it on "racism" anyway...

[tobyhill]

If the Olympics come to Chicago it will be a smoregesborg for gangs.