Beating Death of a 16-year-old Chicago Honor Roll Student Derrion Albert

It is very hard to watch the below video, and would suggest only those with specific interest in Gangs and Mobs as it relates to the topics discussed on this website. It is very disturbing.

This is not your normal mob. Mobs usually have a mutual purpose, while it has been suggested that this may have been gang related, everyone in the video does not have the same purpose. Examining it appears that there are two distinct groups , there is one dressed in black and red and there are 2 people in white t-shirts that can be grouped together, as one comes to the aid of the other near the car. Groups of people working together gives courage to all member that they may have not had standing alone. This is not one gang against another, the 'fighting' is random and uncoordinated.

There are another 15 individuals that are unrelated to the groups who get involved in the violence. Something happens here that happens with all mobs that turn violent, the strong focus on the weak.

Something that stands out, when there is a short blast of a siren immediately people begin to scatter. I have spoken to police and they say there is two schools of thought about the siren: there is the cop who doesn't want to risk dangerous situations who will use the siren all the way up to the call (it is a warning to the robber, or gang, or criminal that I am coming and allows for the person to flee the scene and thus avoid confrontation); and the other school is to not use the siren because you are more likely to get an arrest.

The horns and the 50+ people who are seeing this unfold are can be heard saying get off of him and general screaming are shocked at what is unfolding.

Had the wood not been sitting in the lot, where it could be picked up and used as a weapon, this likely would have ended differently.

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Beating Death of a 16-year-old Chicago Honor Roll Student Derrion Albert