Honors Student Fatally Beaten in Chicago

From the Chicago Sun Times:
The family of Derrion Albert, the 16-year-old fatally beaten Thursday in an after-school mob melee in Roseland, struggled Friday to understand how their honor roll student’s life could have ended in such violence.
Derrion has never been in a fight in his life,” said Joe Walker, Derrion’s grandfather [...]

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Hotel Claims Rape Victim Negligent

When I first read this story I had to reread it a few times just to make sure the Marriott in downtown Stamford, Conn., is really blaming a woman for getting raped on the hotel’s property. But it wasn’t a misread.
From the Connecticut Post:

STAMFORD — A downtown hotel being sued by a woman raped [...]

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Teens in Dunbar Village Gang Rape Head to Trial

After two years, four teen suspects in the Dunbar Village gang rape of a mother and her son will finally go to trial.
According to police, a group of armed, masked intruders broke into the woman’s Dunbar Village apartment, forcing her and her son, then 12, into sex acts.
Afterward the attackers took pains to cover their tracks, pouring [...]

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Horrible People Alert: Cemetery Workers Unearth Bodies

I have no words for how horrible this story is. I’m always shocked at how cruel people can be, but this is just on a whole other level.

From AFP:
Grave robbers stripped at least 300 plots at a historic black cemetery outside Chicago, dumped many of the bodies and then resold the plots for a profit, [...]

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No Jail Time for Chris Brown

“Everybody that’s haters, they just been haters. All my real fans, I love you all. I ain’t a monster,” Chris Brown.
After pleading guilty on Monday to assault against his then-girlfriend Rihanna, Chris Brown will serve five years probation and community service. I can’t even say I’m surprised that he didn’t get any jail time. [...]

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My Opinion on the Holocaust Museum Shooting and Recent Spike in Domestic Terrorism

And I told myself I was going to keep it light this week on the blog. Had to break the promise. I will probably come back to this topic in a more in-depth form later.
A rifle-wielding white supremacist entered Washington’s Holocaust museum on Wednesday afternoon, fatally shooting a security guard before being wounded himself by [...]

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Who Are You All Praying To?

The funeral of the assassinated abortion doctor, George Tiller, took place yesterday in Wichita, Kan. It brought out about 900 people.
Tiller, one of the nation’s few providers of late-term abortions, was killed by a gunshot last Sunday in the foyer of his own church, Reformation Lutheran, while he was serving as an usher and his [...]

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Do Better: Texas Pt. 2

I’ve tried to give Texas more than one chance, but I’ve got to get this rant off my chest.
Texas, what’s going on down there? Every time I look up, there’s some foolishness going on. Now, technically, I can’t really talk about crazy southern states because I live in Georgia and went to college in Florida. Plenty [...]

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How Can Someone Be So Heartless?

There are so many horrible crime stories in the news that it’s easy to become desensitized sometimes. But a recent story about an Atlanta woman who killed an entire family in a hit and run – and then tried to cover it up – is shocking.
 

 The Michael family seemed like the type of people you [...]

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