Being addicted to celebrity news, I am often on entertainment wesbsite mediatakeout.com and on September 28, 2009 nothing was entertaining at all. An awful, just extremely disturbing video of a Chicago teenage boy getting beaten up to death was posted. Since this post only contained video I immediately went to cnn.com the next day, September 29, to look for more information. According to this article (http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/29/chicago.teen.profile/index.html?iref=newssearch), the young teen was an honor student who refused to join a gang which supposedly led to his death. Instead of being able to peacefully walk home the teen, Derrion Albert was confronted by several young men who began to strike him as well as other teens caught in the middle. Onlookers watched, honked their car horns, and even recorded the violent attacks rather than trying to help those victims. You can here take a look for yourself.
As a young teen myself I was absolutely horrified and driven to tears after watching this video. I just could not comprehend why these young men felt the need to attack someone all just because he would not conform and join their gang. It saddens me even more that these young men were African-American just like Derrion Albert. Rather than uplifting and supporting their race, they fought against it. Just like many others I am dying to hear the suspects sides of the story now that they have been caught. I hope that this tragic story opens peoples eyes to the violence and crime that occurs within a race and creates ways for people to prevent it.
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I didn't even hear bout this until now. Thats horrible! It both saddens me and angers me.How can we allow this to happen? Someone should of tried to stop the fight or call the cops or do something rather than just honk and record the thing! This should also serve as a reminder to speak up and do something because if you allow things like this to happen its as if you are participating.
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