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Civil rights Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan are attending the funeral of a Chicago teen beaten to death on his way home from school.
Farrakhan on Saturday called 16-year-old Derrion Albert “a special young man.” Jackson said “children deserve safe passage to school.”
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Posted by: Wavey Willie
Shortly after a fight near Fenger High School, Albert said her son’s principal called her at her home in Mount Vernon and told her to come immediately.
“They said he was trying to help another student and kind of got mixed in with the crowd of the fight and he was hit,” Albert said.
Albert said she moved here briefly last year to take care of her mother. She brought along Derrion and her 11-year-old daughter.
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