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Chicago Student's Beating Death Caught on Tape

Police beef up patrols after savage gang melee

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 28, 2009 4:19 AM CDT

(Newser) – Chicago police are stepping up patrols today at a high school where a 16-year-old honor student's gruesome beating death in a gang melee was captured on video. Students scream in horror as Derrion Albert crumples to the ground and covers his head in vain as he's repeatedly pummeled with wooden planks in the video shot by a female student. Police are questioning suspects in the tape, which was turned over by the student to police and the local Fox news station.

Witnesses said Albert was attacked as he came to the aid of a victim near Fenger High School. The disturbing video "hurt to watch," said his aunt. But his family is hopeful the tape will nail the culprits in Derrion's death. Derrion's grandfather was unable to view the video. "The graphics are too strong for me," he told the Chicago Tribune. "God bless whoever took that video. It did and said it all."

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Honor student Darrion Albert is beaten to death outside Fenger High School in Chicago in the midst of a gang melee. (AgainstTheGrainzTV)

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Pragmaticrealism

Sep 30, 2009 12:32 PM CDT

LOL noone is making excuses!! what do you suggest be done "while the children die"??? Kill off the bad ones? Send them to jail BEFORE they commit acts of violence? There is gang activity in all cities, but proportionally more in areas with high population densities. That is not a liberal statement, it is an educated one. It is not an "excuse", but a factor.

Pragmaticrealism

Sep 30, 2009 12:04 PM CDT

^HOLIER THAN THOU^ ps The "word" you speak of was regurgitated, retranslated many times by numerous Jewish, Spanish, etc "holy men". It is very sad that you believe the bible to be "god's word".

Pragmaticrealism

Sep 30, 2009 1:02 AM CDT

Shannon, not to buy in to the racist POV of other posters, but this type of thing does not happen often among white youths. The socioeconomic conditions under which most whites live are different, and violence is not typically a way of life for white children. It is out of necessity, survival, control, that people take to violence.

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Chicago Student's Beating Death Caught on Tape