Kid beat to death. [Graphic]

[Zeus]

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/video_derrion_albert


Saw this on the Interwebs while browsing. Comments?

[CountDeMoney]

Comments?

Cops didn't do it.

[Slargos]

 

You don't want to hear what I have to comment.

[CountDeMoney]

You don't want to hear what I have to comment.

Nothing I haven't already said before.

[Zeus]

You don't want to hear what I have to comment.

I was particularly interested in your comment. I like a good laugh in the morning; spice up my day.

[Berkut]

Yeah, gang violence sucks. What is there to say?

[Slargos]

Yeah, gang violence sucks. What is there to say?

Sure. It's just generic gang violence. Nothing more to remark here.

Could've just as well been a gang of white kids. In fact, who's to say they weren't? I am colour blind, and race is just a construct.

[DGuller]

From the article, it sounds like these gang fights were a regular occurence, and it certainly seems on the video that nothing out of the ordinary happens.  So how come there are no cops around anywhere?

[Berkut]

Yeah, gang violence sucks. What is there to say?

Sure. It's just generic gang violence. Nothing more to remark here.

Could've just as well been a gang of white kids. In fact, who's to say they weren't? I am colour blind, and race is just a construct.

WTF are you babbling about now?

[Maximus]

WTF are you babbling about now?

People think with their skins, didn't you know. The amount of melanin in the skin directly affects one's actions.

[Slargos]

Yeah, gang violence sucks. What is there to say?

Sure. It's just generic gang violence. Nothing more to remark here.

Could've just as well been a gang of white kids. In fact, who's to say they weren't? I am colour blind, and race is just a construct.

WTF are you babbling about now?

[Translation into American English]
The peculiar thing about this event is not very peculiar. A bunch of black kids beat up on a bunch of other black kids. That you're passing it off as "gang violence" is funny because it completely glosses over the issue here, which is the violence inherent in black culture. Violence per capita is much lower for whites.
[/Translation into American English]

Whether the root of this is racial or cultural, I couldn't really say.

[LaCroix]

is this black culture anything like white culture?

[dps]

Yeah, gang violence sucks. What is there to say?

Sure. It's just generic gang violence. Nothing more to remark here.

Could've just as well been a gang of white kids.

I you really don't think so, it just proves that you don't know shit about America.

[Berkut]

Yeah, gang violence sucks. What is there to say?

Sure. It's just generic gang violence. Nothing more to remark here.

Could've just as well been a gang of white kids. In fact, who's to say they weren't? I am colour blind, and race is just a construct.

WTF are you babbling about now?

[Translation into American English]
The peculiar thing about this event is not very peculiar. A bunch of black kids beat up on a bunch of other black kids. That you're passing it off as "gang violence" is funny because it completely glosses over the issue here, which is the violence inherent in black culture. Violence per capita is much lower for whites.
[/Translation into American English]

Whether the root of this is racial or cultural, I couldn't really say.

I am passing it off as "gang violence" because that is exactly what it is - are you claiming these people were not gang members?

Violence per capita is lower for whites - but what about violence in gangs that are, say, hispanic? Chinese? Oh, I don't fucking know...Italian? have you ever heard of the mafia?

[Slargos]

Yeah, gang violence sucks. What is there to say?

Sure. It's just generic gang violence. Nothing more to remark here.

Could've just as well been a gang of white kids. In fact, who's to say they weren't? I am colour blind, and race is just a construct.

WTF are you babbling about now?

[Translation into American English]
The peculiar thing about this event is not very peculiar. A bunch of black kids beat up on a bunch of other black kids. That you're passing it off as "gang violence" is funny because it completely glosses over the issue here, which is the violence inherent in black culture. Violence per capita is much lower for whites.
[/Translation into American English]

Whether the root of this is racial or cultural, I couldn't really say.

I am passing it off as "just gang violence" because that is exactly what it is - are you claiming these people were not gang members?

Violence per capita is lower for whites - but what about violence in gangs that are, say, hispanic? Chinese? Oh, I don't fucking know...Italian? have you ever heard of the mafia?

No, I'm not claiming they weren't gang members. However, I think that considering this "gang violence" and being satisfied with that ignores a huge part of the problem, which is a culture of crime and violence.

Maybe that's not your intent, and maybe my perception is distorted by coming from a culture where violent behaviour is actively glossed over by talking about "garden implement" rather than "spade" (or, since I suspect that as usual I'm being far too obtuse, "youth violence" rather than "immigrant violence") when fire trucks need police escorts to put out dumpster fires. Hint: It's not ethnically Swedish youth tossing the rocks and stealing tools from the trucks.

Edit: The thought struck me that perhaps you are the one with the broken viewpoint given that the concept of "just gang violence" has achieved normalcy for you. For me it's still appalling.