Posted on 08/23/2014 6:45:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Three White House officials will attend the funeral Monday of Michael Brown, the unarmed Ferguson teen shot and killed by a police officer Aug. 9.
According to a White House official, Broderick Johnson, who heads the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper Task Force, will attend the service along with Marlon Marshall, a St. Louis native who attended high school with Brown’s mother. Heather Foster, who works with Marshall in the White House Office of Public Engagement, will also be in the pews at Brown’s funeral.
Brown was shot six times by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
The service is set for 10 a.m. at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church, where Brown’s uncle, the Rev. Charles Ewing, will eulogize the teen, whose death has set off protests and conversations about racial profiling and the militarization of the police. The church can accommodate 4,500 people and the arrangements are being paid for by Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation’s oldest black fraternity.
The Rev. Al Sharpton will also speak at the service, which is likely to draw a large crowd....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Odd; the White House didn’t send officials to the funeral for the Jersey City cop killed a couple of weeks ago. Never mind, the shooter was black and the cop wasn’t...
But they were too busy to attend the funeral of a 2-star General killed in the line of duty.
The most racially divisive administration in the history of America!
I can’t believe I still shake my head when I read this stuff.
I dont remember or any of his people attending the funeral of Harold Greene..or Christopher Stevens
Take a fish wrapped in newspaper with you.
Why pass up another opportunity for selfies?
The shreeking and theatrical hysterics at this funeral will be Academy Award worthy!!!!!!!!
There are no words to express how much I despise this Muslim Mulatto Marxist TURD and the gaggle of freaks that follow him
PING
Get a load of this crap (aND IT IS A big DAMNED LOAD OF CRAP, TOO!
I’m almost surprised Obama hasn’t asked for flags to at half mast...
I’m almost surprised Obama hasn’t asked for flags to fly at half mast...
Never heard of 'em.
“Brown was shot six times by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.”
Really? I had no idea.
They’re still White House officials.
He was a 4 Star General...
oh fer gawd sake
Hip Hop Wellstone on the way!
Small world huh?
The guy better not have cigars on his person.
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