Derrion Albert is Chicago Honor Student Murdered: Help Find Derrion Alberts Killers

ChicagoRay has been reporting on Derrion Albert, the Chicago Honor Student who was murdered by a mob of teens or young adults. See important below the video. See also a new video interview with Derrion's mother.
 

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Four persons are now in custody. It appears that charges against three persons were filed today. Obviously, someone caught this on video. That person is probably a student or a youth. Surely an adult would have been screaming for help, so this person must know at least some of those in the crowd. These are scenes from outside of Agape Community Center, and the students are believed to be from Fenger High School. This from Darrion's grandfather:

"Derrion has never been in a fight in his life," said Joe Walker, Derrion's grandfather who raised him. "He never raised his voice. Not in 16 years have I had one day of trouble."

Walker broke down several times speaking about his grandson, proudly showing off the awards he received at Christian Fenger Academy High School for excellent attendance and being on the honor roll. Derrion had just started his junior year.
"We were crazy about him," Walker said. "He was the type of grandson everybody wished for."

Walker said he and his late wife had raised Derrion since he was a baby. When the boy's mother moved to Downstate Mount Vernon, he chose not to go with her, wanting to stay in Chicago.

When his grandmother was diagnosed with cancer several years ago, Derrion doted on her, Walker said.

"He was 14 years old, and he would come home and take care of her," he said.
His grandfather said he spent most evenings doing schoolwork on his computer. On the walls of the computer room, cheerful family photos surrounded a handwritten list of "Affirmations for Living" that Derrion wrote, Walker said.
"I would surround myself with people who bring out the best in me," the list reads. "I would rid myself of the negativity in my life, including friends and significant others. I would do something nice for someone, just because."

A youth worker at Agape saw the beatings, and said she didn't thing Darrion even saw them coming:

They had sticks; they were fighting with their hands; they were taking off their shirts and throwing them on the ground," she said. "I saw [Derrion] get hit twice with a stick."
She said Derrion fell to his knees, then was hit again in the head. He was unconscious but alive when she dragged him into the building with the help of a man driving through a nearby alley who abandoned his truck to assist.

In the following video shared by ChicagoRay, you can see Darrion pulled into the building and you can hear, three times, some one screaming, "Darrion, Darrion." Please feel free to post the video on your own site. Just 15-years-old. It breaks my heart and leaves a heavy feeling on my chest. Visit ChicagoRay to see a second video that may be more explanatory as it has a news report with it, but does not show all of the people involved in the beatings. Warning: the video is violent, so be prepared. The phone number to call appears after the video.

 Derrion Albert - Find Darrion Albert's Killers (video)   Derrion Albert's Mother, Anjanette Albert (video)  Update 10-1-09:
A $6,000.00 reward is offered for information leading to an arrest. Police are asking for your help. Four suspects in Derrion's death are in custody, but three more need identifying so that arrests can be made. In every community, there is a phone number to leave anonymous tips. If you know something about this beating - especially if you were there, or if your child or friend told you what happened, call the anonymous tip line if you do not want to identified. What if this were your child, your brother, or your friend? You would want justice. Help bring justice to Darrion Albert's family.

Update 10-2-09:

Roger Ebert writing for the Chicago SunTimes say in the wake of the loss of the 2016 Chicago Olympics, it is time for Chicago to "win Derrion albert's bid:

We were prepared to raise millions to prepare the city for the Olympics. Without missing a beat, we should devote our energy to preparing the city for a new generation of Derrion Alberts.

This will not require new "infrastructure" and all the delay, bureaucracy and waste that often implies. It will require investment in a resource we have in abundant supply: Human beings.

We need to enforce safety, order and civility in our streets and schools, and act quickly. We need more crossing guards armed with cell phones. We need more police, who are heartbroken by the things they see, and need help. We need more teachers, and smaller classrooms.

And this I believe is Ebert's most important point:

In neighborhoods plagued by gangs or feuding cliques of teenagers, we need to enlist adults to monitor the sidewalks outside their windows, and call immediately when they see trouble. Mayor Daley can do it.

Kenneth Gladney is Black Conservative Attacked, Cavuto (Videos)

Kenneth Gladney is a Black conservative who was attacked at a Townhall meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. FoxNews' Neil Cavuto interviewed Mr. Gladney. See two videos below, one which includes a glimpse of the attack on Mr. Gladney. Kenneth Gladney, 38, attended a St. Louis health care Townhall meeting hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-MO). Gladney is a vendor of conservative items, buttons, flags and such. He was attacked after being called the "N" word, allegedly by a Black man. His merchandise was roughed-up. He was hit in the face, knocked to the ground and kicked. His glasses were broken and he ended up in St. John's Mercy Medical Center with injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face. Mr. Gladney is an entrepreneur. He is unemployed and was trying to "make an honest dollar." He says he had no opinions about health care, but it appears that Union members from the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) didn't like his entrepreneurial spirit. The SEIU motto is Change that Works, and it appears they are willing beat the heck out of someone to get that change. Related: Inevitable: Left Will Destroy St. Louis Victim Kenneth Gladney

Kenneth Gladney - Cavuto (Video)

Conservative Attacked (Video)

Inevitable: Left Will Destroy St. Louis Victim Kenneth Gladney

Cross-posted over at Politicalvindication.com In St. Louis tempers flared over a town hall meeting closed to much of the non-unionized public. Representative Russ Carnahan wasn't interested in meeting many of his constituents, so they milled about outside, up to a thousand people, as reported by Gateway Pundit. Suddenly a man was attacked by SEIU union thugs, police arrived and 3 were arrested. Some of the beating is caught on tape - view it here. The tactics of the union members are predictable, the administration has responded to protests against the healthcare bill by calling out its supporters to rat on or confront them. The unions are delivering what they've earned a nail studded reputation for. The problem is that for the man attacked, the real beating hasn't even begun. Kenneth Gladney, a guy who admits he has no opinion at all about the healthcare plan, will be savaged by the left just for ending up a sympathetic figure in their hostile takeover of healthcare in America. Mr. Gladney's interview by Neil Cavuto shows him to be oblivious to the sin he's committed, and as he sits there by his lawyer you just wince knowing that he's going to be torn to pieces by the animals that tore at Joe The Plumber and slashed Sarah Palin. He's not eloquent. He's not opinionated. He's not even interested in the argument. But now he's on the news as a tea party protester who was the first to feel the fist of the Obama juggarnaut. They're probably in his trash cans right now. How long is it going to be before we read about his private past, the embarrassments and failures? Does he have a business license? Has he paid his child support? Does he owe taxes? Does he use drugs? Is he a hypocrite of some sort? Did he vote for Obama? What did he do to deserve the beating and racial taunting by the thugs? Has he ever heard of Joe The Plumber? I hope Ken has found a safe place with good friends - chances are the Obamatrons are gunning for him. The Left today is remorseless; anyone who stands in their way is slandered and their life ripped open for the world to comment on. Ask Gerald Walpin, who has a whole administration telling the world that he's senile. Ask Bristol Palin or any conservative speaking at a college campus. Ask military recruiters and seniors standing indignant at their AARP meetings, denounced as goons by thier nation's president. The vicious reaction by progressives against their political enemies continues to escalate and is the prime reason why politics are so bitter right now. Of course there are Republicans who say terrible things about those they disagree with, but the difference is that other Republicans will rise up against them. Activist democrats tend to join in the attack - to them there is a higher value than peace. It's power. Kenneth Gladney better be ready for his time under the klieg lights. Once the machine gets done with him, he'll wish he'd just taken his beating and gone home. Related: Kenneth Gladney is Black Conservative Attached, Cavuto (Video)