Holder calls beating death of Chicago teen a ‘wake-up call’ that should be a call to action
By APWednesday, October 7, 2009
Holder calls Chicago beating death a wake-up call
CHICAGO — Attorney General Eric Holder called the beating death of a Chicago teen a “stark wake-up call” that should serve as a call to action.
Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan made a trip to Chicago to meet with city leaders to discuss youth violence in the wake of the beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert.
But Holder says youth violence is an American problem and not just a Chicago problem. He says the nation was shocked at the violence on the video that captured Albert’s fatal beating.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says the Wednesday morning meeting with Holder and Duncan was productive. He says they talked about ways to help children, including by providing mentors and creating more after-school and weekend programs.
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October 7, 2009: 6:46 pm
This is grandma/auntie Lorraine I emailed the White House last night hoping that US Attorney Holt and Education Secretary Duncan would at least mention something about the murder of my grandson Percy Day and nephew Tyrone Day who were both killed on September 25, 2009. At the time you do not know how to respond and is also afraid to say anything for fear of saying the wrong thing. We spoke to your report because she had been so patient and waited with us. I am not certain what we were waiting on but we waited anyway. Now even she is going. No one care about our boys anymore. Their story appears not to be news worthy. I now wonder why or if she gave us a business card. Did she know before that this was a onetime deal. Then we had the press conference on September 26 which I though when OK. Again no one gave me their card and only one report from the Sun Times took my telephone. She wanted to know if she could call me after the funeral but didn’t ask when and where it would be held. The boys stories are the tale of two cousins who were inseparable when Tyrone was in town. Their stories are about them being two of the ten young Black American in this family in a University in Illinois now. Their stories are how they always called or can by to say I love you and grandma did you cook. Their stories are plans of adventures of our many talks of going Africa. Their stories are how they were always respectable to their elder no manner the age. If the person was just one minute older them were te elder. The stories are how an entire family will miss them and yes they are “worthy”. |
Lorraine Sanya