CNN: Three charged with murder in beating death of Chicago teen
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- Three teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 16-year-old boy whose beating was captured on amateur video.
Nineteen-year-old Silvanus Shannon, 16-year-old Eric Carson and 18-year-old Eugene Riley were charged as adults with first degree felony murder, said Tandra Simonton, spokesperson for the Cook County States Attorney.
They are charged in the death of Derrion Albert, an honors student who was beaten to death last Thursday. An amateur videotape of the beating has been broadcast nationally.
It's unclear who shot the footage, but a local television station that received the tape turned it over to police.
The tape shows attackers wielding two-by-fours and punching and kicking a single person. At one point, four or five males are seen beating and stomping the same young man after he falls to the ground.
As the attackers run away, the person with the camera and several others approached Albert and carried him into a nearby building. "Derrion, get up!" a female voice pleads.
Three people over age 17 and one juvenile were questioned Sunday, according to local news reports.
4 comments:
Sadly you are correct, without a white person as a "villain", very little will become of this. If it wasn't for the Chicago's quest to host the Olympics, I doubt this story would have gained national attention.
Obama is in a very unique position to bring the much needed attention to black on black crime. I hope he does.
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Constructive Feedback, is an anal-orifice and a straight-up Id-jit.
Derrion Albert, was not kidnapped and then brutalized and murdered for whistling at a whidte woman.
Derrion Albert, is not innocently standing at a bus stop with his book pack on his back, when the gang comes for him.
Derrion Albert, does not see the melee and then tries to avoid it by walking away in an alternative direction.
According to the video, Derrion Albert is directly in the mixx, looking to throw a few blows his punk-gott-damn self.
There are Asian gang fights where Asian youth are harmed and sometimes killed. There are Latino gang fights where Latino youth are harmed and sometimes killed. Do the deaths from the teen gang fights of other ethnic groups somehow negatively reflect upon and diminish what happened to Emmett Till.
14-year-old Emmett Louis Till, was kidnapped, beat, and murdered for supposedly not respecting whidte womanhood.
In Mississippi, over 500 blacks had been lynched since 1882; sick, sick, Negroes such as the so-called Cultural Strategist, seek to return us to those halcyon days of Jim Crow when we respected our betters and knew our place.
Clifton B, you am a Id-jit, too.
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After watching the video of Derrion Albert of Chicago, IL; a highschool honors student, beaten to death at the hands of other black youth, in his own community, i have to say that i'm disgusted. It's hard to put into words the regret, disapointment and sincere anger i feel in my heart after witnessing this brutal massacre. In my innermost being, i believe that every black person(especially black men), or any human being for that matter, in this country should feel the same. Why do i feel regret? Because as a young black man, obviously i haven't done enough. Not enough talking to the youth, not enough caring for the youth and not enough loving either. I've let my people down and because of it, there's one less black man on this planet. I know there are many who will read these words and say I'm crazy. One person can't change a whole community, or state or nation right? WRONG! We've nurtured this type of thinking for too long. We have leaned on this mentality as a justification to check out completely as black men. To check out of the schoolhouse, and not finish our education. To check out of our relationships, and father multiple children by multiple woman, and lastly and most importantly, to check out of our households and not raise our children. This mentality is responsible for this tragedy.
Last year around this time, we elected our first African-American president. In many peoples hearts, they felt because of this, it signaled that maybe we have lived to see the stagnation of racism on the highest levels. Many Americans, especially black Americans, were inspired and believed that Obama's run for the highest office, and his subsequent victory, meant future victory for our young people. How could youth see Obama achieve and not be pushed, motivated, and inspired to reach for a better life as well? I have to admit, i too was inspired. I too felt pride in the enormous barrier that was broken down last November, but after witnessing the massacre of Derrion Albert, the only statement that blares in my heart and soul is: THE MESSAGE OF HOPE IS NOT GETTING THROUGH TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE!!
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Less than a hundred years ago black men, woman, and children were victimized in the same fashion Derrion was, by racist whites, but no more. It's safe to say atrocities like those perpetrated by the KKK and former slave owners, are few and far between in black American life these days. The only glaring paradox to this fact is that these animilistic, ritualistic, bloody, senseless killings still take place in Black America, but the perpetrators no longer wear white bed sheets and robes, they wear Rocawear and Timbaland boots; white t-shirts and New Era ball caps. Dangling necklaces and gold and platinum teeth are their adornments. No longer do these victimizers leave burning crosses in the front lawns of those who simply desire to live a decent and safe life. They instead leave bullet holes in windows and piping hot gun shells on black mothers and fathers doorsteps. They no longer use the cover of darkness, as they ride horseback, they instead choose to sit behind the wheel of tricked out Monte Carlo's and Chevy Caprice's; Pontiac's with 20 inch rims and SUV's with blaring sound systems, replace the chilling holler in the night of white supremacist on their way to reek devestation to the innocent. The only problem is that these victimizers, these people to BLAME for the deaths of our children, ARE OUR CHILDREN!!
Where have we went wrong? How have we ended up with a black president, but dead black babies in the streets of our largest cities. Have we placed entirely to much significance on materialistic badges of prosperity, that we have incubated a mindset that places dollars over dignity and cents over social awareness. Have we sold out as black people; our own people, in order to have a fraction more than the generation before us? While our toddlers, galavant around the pre-school playground, hardly able to stand in the expensive tennis shoes they wear, while our grammar school age son's and daughters plot ways to destroy their lives inside the decaying hallways that is our public school system, while our teenage black males run out our doors to hop in the ride of a "homey'' or "dawg",............. we sit; undisturbed and unapollegetically washing our hands with it all, but that wash basin is filled with the blood of our children. It is filled with the lives of so many young people; full of potential, but given up on by their own parents, uncles and auties; their own community.
The message of hope and change that swept every section of our nation last November, has been all but forgotten in the very corners where it's needed most. Black fathers continue to check out of their childrens lives permanately. Black mothers continue to introduce random men into the lives of thier young daughters, because of their own greedy intentions, and lack of understanding to the detriment it causes, or complete indifference to it altogether. The vicious cycle of self-hate, hopelessness and despair endures. When will we stand up? When we will say no more? No more Derrion Albert's, no more drive-by's and drug pushers, no more gang banging and self-flagellation. When will we step up to our responsibility and be willing to lay our own lives down, to save the life of our children? How many more must die before we awaken from the daze of disillusionment and the stupor of stupidity? Our very future is at stake. No longer must we beat the drum the loudest about white supremacy and white superiority. The grandstanding and media attention from the likes of our assumed black leaders, needs to begin ON OUR BLOCK! Its time to sound the trumpet of personal responsibility and communal accountability, in its highest inflection, at our own African-American addresses, if we are to witness a better tomorrow. OUR CHILDREN ARE BLEEDING TO DEATH IN THE VERY STREETS WE LIVE!! I have to wonder,.............. what good is a black president if our children don't care?
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