... the other Black experience
So...nobody's gonna talk about this?
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CHICAGO (Sept. 28) – 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. More than 30 students were killed in 2008, according to district figures, and the city could exceed that toll in 2009
But some community members said the solution lies with parents.
"It is our problem. We have to take control of our children," said Dawn Allen, who attended a vigil at the school Monday, where a group of residents tried to force their way into the school before being turned back by police.
Albert was attacked around 3 p.m. Thursday in front of Agape Community Center in the south Chicago neighborhood of Roseland, where he was walking to a bus stop, authorities said.
The violence stemmed from a shooting early Thursday morning involving two groups of students, said Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County prosecutor's office. When school ended, members of the two groups began fighting.
The attack, captured in part on a bystander's cell phone video, shows Albert being struck on the head by one of several young men wielding wooden planks. After he falls to the ground an appears to try to get up, he is struck again and then kicked.
Prosecutors charged Silvonus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, and Eric Carson, 16, with first-degree murder, and they were ordered held without bond on Monday, said Andy Conklin, a spokesman for the Cook County prosecutor's office.
Simonton said Albert was a bystander and not part of either group. She said Albert was knocked unconscious when Carson struck him in the head with a board and the second person punched him in the face. Albert regained consciousness and was trying to get up when he was attacked a second time by five people and was struck in the head with a board by Riley and stomped in the head by Shannon, Simonton said.
Desiyan Bacon, Riley's aunt, attended Monday's vigil at the school and said her nephew didn't have anything to do with the beating and was a friend of the victim.
"They need to stop the crime, but when they do it, they need to get the right person," Bacon said.
Albert's grandfather, Joseph Walker, told the Chicago Tribune that he could not bear to watch the recording. "The graphics are too strong for me," he said. "God bless whoever took that video. It did and said it all."
"It hurt to watch," said LaTonia Williams, the boy's aunt, told the paper. "It's one thing to hear about it and come up with your own theory of what happened. To see it is another thing."
But the family said they didn't mind people watching the video as long as it helps identify the culprits.
Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin says the teens were charged Monday as adults.
CHICAGO (Sept. 28) – 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. More than 30 students were killed in 2008, according to district figures, and the city could exceed that toll in 2009
But some community members said the solution lies with parents.
"It is our problem. We have to take control of our children," said Dawn Allen, who attended a vigil at the school Monday, where a group of residents tried to force their way into the school before being turned back by police.
Albert was attacked around 3 p.m. Thursday in front of Agape Community Center in the south Chicago neighborhood of Roseland, where he was walking to a bus stop, authorities said.
The violence stemmed from a shooting early Thursday morning involving two groups of students, said Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County prosecutor's office. When school ended, members of the two groups began fighting.
The attack, captured in part on a bystander's cell phone video, shows Albert being struck on the head by one of several young men wielding wooden planks. After he falls to the ground an appears to try to get up, he is struck again and then kicked.
Prosecutors charged Silvonus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, and Eric Carson, 16, with first-degree murder, and they were ordered held without bond on Monday, said Andy Conklin, a spokesman for the Cook County prosecutor's office.
Simonton said Albert was a bystander and not part of either group. She said Albert was knocked unconscious when Carson struck him in the head with a board and the second person punched him in the face. Albert regained consciousness and was trying to get up when he was attacked a second time by five people and was struck in the head with a board by Riley and stomped in the head by Shannon, Simonton said.
Desiyan Bacon, Riley's aunt, attended Monday's vigil at the school and said her nephew didn't have anything to do with the beating and was a friend of the victim.
"They need to stop the crime, but when they do it, they need to get the right person," Bacon said.
Albert's grandfather, Joseph Walker, told the Chicago Tribune that he could not bear to watch the recording. "The graphics are too strong for me," he said. "God bless whoever took that video. It did and said it all."
"It hurt to watch," said LaTonia Williams, the boy's aunt, told the paper. "It's one thing to hear about it and come up with your own theory of what happened. To see it is another thing."
But the family said they didn't mind people watching the video as long as it helps identify the culprits.
Cook County state's attorney's office spokesman Andy Conklin says the teens were charged Monday as adults.
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Permalink Reply by Compound Egret on -
Pretty sad.
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Permalink Reply by Rage_Proletaire on -
Sends fire down my spine to hear somebody's parent(s) say, "**** would never do that - he's a good kid." Not that it's a lie (I could never know for sure), but ... sometimes I get the feeling those parents (the vacant, distant ones in denial) never have a fucking clue where their children are, or whom they associate with.
Plus, the motherfucker's on tape.
I'll pray for slow, retaliatory deaths.
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Permalink Reply by CaliforniaAfrican on -
Self genocide.
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Permalink Reply by Ghettopunkrocker on -
...and people wonder why progression is so damn hard with us. It's because we're outnumbered. Y'know, fuck P.C. Truth is the truth, that honor student that was killed by those waste of sperm represented people like us. These piece of shit thug niggas that killed the honor student represents our community who's rejected us but for some reason we make excuses for.
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Permalink Reply by Gullah*Gotham*Glitter on -
I just saw this story on CNN a few minutes ago, the video is quite shocking. Especially when you see the amount of people just standing around not really doing anything. What I can't believe is how this type of violence is not new to Chicago and yet nothing really has been done. There are people who are looking for a person to point a finger at but really it's the parents. What are these parents doing that all of their children are turning into gangsters? It's not the schools who are breeding this violence.
So what exactly is going to be done to stop our young men and women from being lost to the streets?
What hurts the most is five young African American males have basically lost their lives.
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Permalink Reply by Darkness Unlimited* on -
1st i've heard ov this. Pretty damned fucked up, though.
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Permalink Reply by kifaru on -
Sad, sad, sad. But what will we do? a march probably and a vigil. There were people who could have called the police ore intervened. I hope no one runs out and asks for mercy for the kids who didi this. No, I don't want to see another black person in jail but yeah they need to go to jail.
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Permalink Reply by Wheredawhitewomenat on -
Can't say that I'm surprised... (Not saying that to be a prick). Stuff like this happens all the time, the only difference is this just happens to be on video.
Like in Detroit where this car jacker beat up an old man, and people just stood around talking as if nothing was going on.
And after reading about what happened in Dunbar Village a while ago, I'm not shocked by much anymore.
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Permalink Reply by Rage_Proletaire on
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Gullah*Gotham*Glitter said:Especially when you see the amount of people just standing around not really doing anything
I accept such a thing as a given, nowadays. And I feel out of my place enough in my own surroundings to expect my neighbors to turn a blind eye should something escalate into a mindless lust-driven mob beating, on behalf of a few bored teenagers.
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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on -
Reminds me of the case of a young woman who was beaten to death by 4 other girls on her way home from school. They say girl violence is rising.
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Permalink Reply by Madamoiselle De Sade on
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People only want to deal with the symptoms, not the roots. When people see stuff like this- they want all people like this thrown in jail- under the jail to make them feel safe at night. Then there's an overcrowding issue.
Because no one wants to deal with the real problems or even acknowledge they exist.
Ghettopunkrocker said:...and people wonder why progression is so damn hard with us. It's because we're outnumbered. Y'know, fuck P.C. Truth is the truth, that honor student that was killed by those waste of sperm represented people like us. These piece of shit thug niggas that killed the honor student represents our community who's rejected us but for some reason we make excuses for.
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Permalink Reply by Rage_Proletaire on
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Mlle d. Sade said:They say girl violence is rising.
Do you agree with that? I'm inclined to assume they're only reporting on it more often now (creating a newsworthy trend), but I've no proof of that whatsoever.
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