So...nobody's gonna talk about this?

[Ghettopunkrocker]

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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.

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Wheredawhitewomenat said:

Arana said:

Oh well, what can we do? Yep, that sounds terrible but...'eh. All the after school specials, federally funded basketball programs and the annual, "Let's Uplift the race type film" (See Great Debaters and Pride) in the world aren't enough to help these kids.
BTW, I was shocked to see what I assumed to be adults with their shirts off fighting in the middle of the street. Really? What the fuck. You see this is the kind of stuff that makes me shake my head. Grown ass men acting as if they're still 17 yrs old. Jesus christ. By some khakis pull your pants up (turn your hat around) and act like you've got some god damned sense.

The only thing we can do is try to be good role models I guess...Other than that, I got nothin'.

First, see the link I just posted--in communities like Altgeld Gardens, where the kid who was killed came from, social services as simple as the library, basketball courts, and a swimming pool have been shut down or are no longer free--so kids who would've been hanging out playing sports or going to the library are out w/ nothing to do but get into trouble. SO what we can do is open up those recreational sites and library and get kids doing something other than sitting on their asses and inflating their ego as their only thing of value in the world.

Also, what's "grown ass" about 18 or 19 or 20 year olds who still live w/ their families, have their gang affiliations, and can't hold down a job?

[calvinchaos]

when I was a kid, people got shot or stabbed to death not beat to death, but I have seen fights like this in certain parts of Chicago since the early nineties...it's nothing new. I think the death was an accident. where I came up on the South East side, and on some parts of the West Side, you can see fights like this every month out of the year...but the whole "TAPE IT FOR YOUTUBE" thing is what's new. the video is probably the only reason it made the news, I'm telling you. this is a safe city, but if you are part of a neighborhood like that you're fair game unless you just keep your mouth shut and keep to yourself all the time.

[Cindy]

People are collectively losing their minds. As a nation we set up the conditions for something like this to happen. God bless his soul and his poor parents. Seems like we dont even need the white folk or the cops to cancel us out anymore we do it ourselves and over such foolishness.