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Old 09-26-2009, 09:45 PM
 
Location: Chicago- Lawrence and Kedzie/Maywood
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Video: Teen Attacked, Beaten to Death in Melee - Chicago Breaking News (http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/video_derrion_albert - broken link)

Here's the video of the kid being killed in Roseland.

Out of all the fools fighting, the innocent one had to die.

errgghh

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Old 09-26-2009, 09:50 PM
 
Location: Logan Square
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That story is just awful. Who subscribes to mob mentality like that? A fair fight is one thing but ****ing beating a kid to death with sticks and fists! Crazy.

Roseland has had a hell of a year. I don't understand how people still say Roseland is pretty safe, this summer has only proven the opposite.
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Old 09-26-2009, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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How do we know he was innocent for certain?

Regardless, I highly doubt he deserved to be killed like that or killed at all.
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Old 09-26-2009, 09:56 PM
 
Location: Chicago- Lawrence and Kedzie/Maywood
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I'm just going by what is known so far.
And from my point of view, he doesn't seem like the gangbangin type
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Old 09-26-2009, 09:57 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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I'm just going by what is known so far.
And from my point of view, he doesn't seem like the gangbangin type
That is fair.
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Old 09-26-2009, 10:01 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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How do we know he was innocent?

Regardless, I highly doubt he deserved to be killed like that.
everything I've read about the story states he was an honor roll student who wasn't a part of any gang and was either just walking home and got caught up in that mess or was trying to help another kid who had gotten tangled up in the mess also. just b/c he was killed by some punk gangbangers doesn't mean he was one of them.

I'm wondering why there isn't more outrage over the fact that kid got beaten to death on the streets at 3pm by a savage mob. I would have expected some public response from the police chief or mayor or something (oh, I forgot, mayor's in Denmark...)
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Old 09-26-2009, 10:03 PM
 
Location: East Chicago, IN
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everything I've read about the story states he was an honor roll student who wasn't a part of any gang and was either just walking home and got caught up in that mess or was trying to help another kid who had gotten tangled up in the mess also. just b/c he was killed by some punk gangbangers doesn't mean he was one of them.

I'm wondering why there isn't more outrage over the fact that kid got beaten to death on the streets at 3pm by a savage mob. I would have expected some public response from the police chief or mayor or something (oh, I forgot, mayor's in Denmark...)
Also, it's not Lincoln Park. That's right, I went there.

A lot of these kids that do get killed are in no way shape or form part of a gang or bad seeds, just innocents that do get caught in the crossfire, or targeted because they in fact chose not to go that path.
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Old 09-26-2009, 10:09 PM
 
Location: Logan Square
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A lot of these kids that do get killed are in no way shape or form part of a gang or bad seeds, just innocents that do get caught in the crossfire, or targeted because they in fact chose not to go that path.
Was it last year that that teenager who played guitar in his church's band was gunned down in the church parking lot in Roseland? Seemed to be the same thing, mistaken identity or the like. Victims are dealt a bad hand by being young, black and killed in a **** neighborhood. Only leads to the worst kind of assumptions about how their lives were lead and not nearly the outrage these kinds of crimes deserve.
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Old 09-26-2009, 10:21 PM
 
Location: East Chicago, IN
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I've known guys that have gotten jumped and beaten because they turned down opportunties to be involved with certain people. Damned if you do, damned if you don't in a lot of these cases. Sucks.
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Old 09-26-2009, 11:22 PM
 
Location: Southwest Suburbs
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That story is just awful. Who subscribes to mob mentality like that? A fair fight is one thing but ****ing beating a kid to death with sticks and fists! Crazy.

Roseland has had a hell of a year. I don't understand how people still say Roseland is pretty safe, this summer has only proven the opposite.
Who in there right mind say Roseland is safe? They don't call that the wild 100s for nothing.
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