What's amazing to me is we've been dealing with students being killed for far too long. And the fact that those deaths, those violent deaths weren't on video, people didn't seem to wake up. And so it's amazing to me that it takes a video to sort of awaken a country.
Arne Duncan discusses the impact of the videotaped murder of Derrion Albert on public awareness regarding violence among students.
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