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Parolee charged in South Loop attack over cigarettes, again 

A recent prison parolee -- convicted last year of beating up a couple who refused to give him a cigarette -- was charged again Wednesday after allegedly threatening a woman in the South Loop who refused to give him a smoke.

Derrick King, 47, is charged with a misdemeanor count of assault and was being held on a warrant for violation of probation, according to police News Affairs. . . .

King approached a 49-year-old woman about 3:20 a.m. near a store in the 500 block of West Roosevelt Road and asked her for a cigarette, police said. When she declined, King said, "Remember the couple who got beat up real bad for not giving a cigarette, that was me!" He then allegedly charged towards the woman, police said.

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