Posted on 09/10/2014 11:45:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
FERGUSON, Missouri— It has been a month and a day since Michael Brown was shot and killed, his body left for hours in the street like strange, fallen fruit for his loved ones and neighbors to wail over.
Protests, riots and violent clashes with the police have slowly cooled in the St. Louis suburb, but Brown’s family continues to languish under the weight of an uncertain investigation and the burden of mourning the death of their 18-year-old son – both privately and publicly.
“Each day it seems to get worse for them,” Anthony Gray, a family attorney, told msnbc. “Because each day or each event or turn of events it just seems to just take the dagger and drive it even deeper in the heart of this mother and the father.”
At least a half-dozen witnesses have come forward and given the media and local and federal investigators accounts of what they saw the Saturday afternoon in which a Ferguson police officer fired nearly a dozen rounds at Brown.
One was just feet away. Others were pulling into driveways, standing outside of their apartments or working nearby.
Each has given a similar account of the shooting, saying that there was a struggle at the officer’s car, then gunshots trailing Brown as he attempted to run away. At some point, nearly all of them say, Brown turned with his hands up in surrender. The officer kept firing, they say.
A Grand Jury is currently hearing evidence in the case and mulling whether or not the police officer, six-year veteran Darren Wilson, should be indicted in the killing....
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
Sheesh.
And all they had to do to keep Jumbo the Thug alive is..teach him not to be a criminal to begin with.
They're referring to the Billie Holliday song "Strange Fruit", which is about lynching in the South. They're attempting to plant a meme here.
Bingo.
Have they gotten their money yet? Where is their money? They deserve some money! GIVE THEM SOME MONEY!
It has been a month and a day since the young black, unarmed teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer, his body left for hours in the street like strange, fallen fruit for his loved ones and neighbors to wail over.
But the reference to lynching in the use of "fallen fruit" is a clever new touch. (See the song "Strange Fruit.")
For sure they are grieving, that`s normal, in fact it starts to get worse as it sinks in that you have lost a loved one...nothing unusual about that
Mind you I wonder if all the Al Sharpton`s and the demonstrations etc have made it more difficult to start the normal grieving process?
I wonder if at any point have they yet had the courage to say to one another...Darn it, if only he had not robbed the liquor store, smoked the pot etc and taken his attitude to the streets, he might still be alive.
Or is there anything we as parents could have done differently...I suspect they are in denial? certainly are not going to say that publicly anyway.
Another sob story from PMSNBC. Fortunately, no one watches.
How many gunshots did he take to his back?
I imagine Officer Wilson's face is still aching a month later as well...
Not a one, according to THREE autopsies.
No, no, that’s all a lie, according to the civil rights industry and media.
Pavement whale’s parents should have tried harder not to raise a thug.
Well yes, of course. Just imagine what’ll happen on the one year anniversary...
They should go jack up some store clerks. It’ll make them feel better.
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