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Posts tagged "Derrion Albert"

Derrion Albert's Preventable Death

In a demonstration of how the perfect often is the enemy of the good enough, Education Sec. Arne Duncan (foreground), Atty. Gen. Eric Holder (at the podium) and Mayor Richard M. Daley promise to get to the “root” cause of Derrion Albert’s violent death, instead of doing what could immediately solve the problem. Sometimes the... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 9, 2009 at 3:02 pm
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In the wake of Derrion Albert's murder, consider all-male high schools

What in blazes is wrong with men? Seems like every time you turn around, a man, or a man-child, is fighting, maiming, stalking, raping or killing somebody. On a street outside Fenger High School, thugs beat a student to death. Punks used to wait for darkness to do their killing, but a fatal beating in... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
October 6, 2009 at 11:23 am
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Deadly Chicago beating on tape

Warning: this video contains violence. Someone recorded the beating that has stunned much of Chicago and Fox News has aired it. Fellow ChicagoNow poster Garrard McClendon called it savagery and I couldn’t agree more... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
September 27, 2009 at 1:53 pm
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