Posted on 09/29/2009 5:38:50 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
CHICAGO — Cell phone footage showing a group of teens viciously kicking and striking a 16-year-old honors student with splintered railroad ties has ramped up pressure on Chicago officials to address chronic violence that has led to dozens of deaths of city teens each year.
The graphic video of the afternoon melee emerged on local news stations over the weekend, showing the fatal beating of Derrion Albert, a sophomore honor roll student at Christian Fenger Academy High School. His death was the latest addition to a rising toll: More than 30 students were killed last school year, and the city could exceed that number this year.
Prosecutors charged four teenagers Monday with fatally beating Albert, who was walking to a bus stop when he got caught up in the mob street fighting, authorities said.
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Don’t worry, they’ll all get jobs at the Chicago Olympics.
U B a raycis fo sayin’ dat. Dey wuz jes xpressin’ anger cause of slaveree.
(baby momma)Not his fault. It was a “mistake”. He is a good boy. He was just getting his life back together, doing well in school. He got in with the wrong crowd (/baby momma)
The first guy looks defiant, the second..bored, third is scared. The one thing they all share in common.....dead eyes. Very sad.
A very disturbing video. These thugs beat the poor kid over the head and in the face with what looked like, a 2X6!
I couldn’t watch the whole video, but what I saw, rattled me.
From left to right, “I Be Mean”, “I Be Oblivious” and “I Be Victim of Honkey!”
This is what happens when you lose your star community organizer.
Deadlights in their eyes. Nothing going on inside their heads except beat the crap out of the kid who acts white(gets good grades).
I’ll bet these thugs can’t even spell their names.
My God, how do you recover hope for the rest of these kids who now rely on the government to support their lives?
Nightmare. Bloody and tragic nightmare.
After a year in prison, these guys are going to wish they had picked him up and carried him to the bus stop.
These guys have a beautiful, ‘pretty’, life waiting for them.
Series, get it right! :oD
Why are they always black? /sarc
Will someone please send this link to the Olympic Committee in Copenhagen?
Are these people stupid and naive to think that Chicago should host the 2016 Olympics?
Chicago is the most corrupt city in the USA. The Illinois people will end up fitting the bill.
Young black kids getting bludgeoned to death on the streets of his hometown and where is Obama?
Maybe he could’ve sent Air Force One to do a fly-over and dispersed the crowd.
Splintered railroad ties, the weapon of choice.
Just damn damn damn
you dont know that...he could have been an “Honor Student” and he may have really wanted to do what we all hope our children strive for....some kids in the ghetto really want out....but how if no one believes in them.
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