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Speaker 1: Trending news from our home station V one O three

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Speaker 1: in Chicago. Chicagoans and people around the country are outraged

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Speaker 1: about a viral video showing a group of young kids

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Speaker 1: attacking a mother and her nine year old son while

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Speaker 1: she was walking him home from school. These kids surrounded

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Speaker 1: the mom, surrounded the sun, ridiculed them, bullied them, beat them,

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Speaker 1: and stomped them. The victims were taken to the hospital

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Speaker 1: in serious condition. Now take a listen to Illinois State

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Speaker 1: Senator Willie Preston, who recently spoke at a community rally

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Speaker 1: right outside the school.

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Speaker 2: The video is a symptom of something that's been going.

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Speaker 3: On for a long time. We haven't held these kids accountable.

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Speaker 2: We haven't held parents accountable for the violent actions that

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Speaker 2: they told they are doing and that they aware of.

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Speaker 4: Wow, yeah, this is a problem. That video, that what

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Speaker 4: we saw.

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Speaker 3: Can I see the video because I haven't seen it. Oh,

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Speaker 3: hearing this, we don't, we want.

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Speaker 1: To see it.

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Speaker 3: But how old the sun was?

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Speaker 1: Nine? The sun was nine years old?

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Speaker 3: We talk in elementary to junior high, right, and there.

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Speaker 4: Bullying and yeah, it's been going on for years.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's been getting bullied for years.

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Speaker 4: And I think the people in the community, you know,

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Speaker 4: in the area. They are calling for the Chicago Public

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Speaker 4: School system and the leadership to do a better job

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Speaker 4: of protecting, you know, the kids, their safety and they're

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Speaker 4: well being and prioritizing.

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Speaker 2: That well, you know, you know, bullying. You're right, carl

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Speaker 2: it because bullying is a major issue at school, always being.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was bullied at school.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now it's cyberspace creates a whole nother level to

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Speaker 2: it because they can communicate, organize, meet you to follow this.

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Speaker 3: Probably, I don't know what happened.

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Speaker 2: Seems like the mother went up to the school for

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Speaker 2: some reason, was walking the boy home or something. I

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Speaker 2: don't walking and and and and here that oh you're

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Speaker 2: gonna go get your mind.

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Speaker 4: They followed them. They followed them, you see it on

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Speaker 4: the video. They followed them while walking.

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Speaker 1: On a boy year old and his.

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Speaker 3: Mind and his mom. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: It is unbelievable.

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Speaker 4: You have to hold these kids responsible with the actions parents.

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Speaker 2: This is parenting, Yes, this is parenting, allowing your kids.

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Speaker 2: This is the laws we have allowing your kids.

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Speaker 3: This is the freedoms we got.

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Speaker 2: We gotta shut this down, and we got to do

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Speaker 2: a better job of policing ourselves in our community.

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Speaker 4: Yes, because this was ours, this is our community for

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Speaker 4: no reason.

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Speaker 3: Is disappointing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it really really is.

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Speaker 2: A lot of it on the parents to me, because

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Speaker 2: you know, this is after stoopid, this is walking home.

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