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White House officials to attend Michael Brown’s funeral
The Washington Post's Post Nation ^ | August 23, 2014 | Nia Malika-Henderson

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ferguson; michaelbrown; missouri; obama
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To: Popman
"I’m almost surprised Obama hasn’t asked for flags to fly at half mast..."

There's still time for that.

21 posted on 08/23/2014 7:01:52 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This administration is literally trying to provoke a civil war to draw out conservatives so they can step in and kill them. That is exactly what is going on.


22 posted on 08/23/2014 7:02:33 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh! I can’t wait to hear about the “eulogy!”


23 posted on 08/23/2014 7:02:41 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing! Don't let anybody touch that thing! I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that th)
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To: yldstrk

A thug gets VIP treatment, but a four-star general who dedicated his life to the nation gets nothing. How low can this bunch go?


24 posted on 08/23/2014 7:02:59 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


25 posted on 08/23/2014 7:03:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: kearnyirish2

Nor to that of perp Powell, because his suicide-by-cop was actually recorded.


26 posted on 08/23/2014 7:04:26 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Solve problems, don't bitch about them.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The fix is in.


27 posted on 08/23/2014 7:04:58 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
This administration is literally trying to provoke a civil war to draw out conservatives so they can step in and kill them. That is exactly what is going on.

As of reading this article, I believe that fully as well.

28 posted on 08/23/2014 7:05:27 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: txrefugee
A thug gets VIP treatment, but a four-star general who dedicated his life to the nation gets nothing. How low can this bunch go?

Gee, I wonder if any GOP-e leaders will be chiming in to point this out, and rip him over it? Or maybe they'll be carrying B. Hussein's Boys' bags to St. Louis?

29 posted on 08/23/2014 7:07:04 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: txrefugee

they are ruthless


30 posted on 08/23/2014 7:07:26 PM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Popman

It is still early he just may do it on Monday.


31 posted on 08/23/2014 7:07:38 PM PDT by funfan
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To: MagUSNRET

Please, you shouldn’t call him a “TURD.” A more fitting term is “subhuman piece of pig s**t,” which necessarily also includes his religion and properly characterized theorizes it.


32 posted on 08/23/2014 7:07:55 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: mass55th

I really think he gets his ideas that tick us off so bad, right here. Someone reads what were discussing and says Hey good idea, they are not that smart to think of all these things that irritate us.


33 posted on 08/23/2014 7:08:10 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What the he** is “the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper Task Force” and how many of my tax dollars are being wasted on this?


34 posted on 08/23/2014 7:12:05 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just make it a national holiday so the school children can stay home and have their parents fix their lunch while they watch live coverage (which will give them extra credit in class the next day).


35 posted on 08/23/2014 7:13:29 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WELL NOW....ISN’T THAT SPECIAL...

and who attended the funeral of the Late General Green who was murdered in Afghanistan?

It is quiet obvious that this current bunch in the white House only support Blacks...after all the leader is half black...and it will all be on TV...well I need to weed garden Monday so that I will do...

what an insult to this nation


36 posted on 08/23/2014 7:13:41 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: haircutter

He’s not even half black. Probably Malaysian. He couldn’t give a crap about black people.

This is unreal.


37 posted on 08/23/2014 7:18:32 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: mickie; rstrahan

Natick mourns Army Major General Harold J. Greene, killed in Afghanistan insider attack
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/08/06/greene/P3Ots2hCh6LGJHAmwpCJ9J/story.html


38 posted on 08/23/2014 7:19:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: mickie

He was a Major General. (2 Star).


39 posted on 08/23/2014 7:19:34 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: mass55th

Yes for the African American’s,Negro’,Black American’s etc.Small group of people,I think 12 percent..Obama is setting it up for Illegals from Mexico and he is getting them into nice schools and jobs.Jesse and Sharpton should talk about this.


40 posted on 08/23/2014 7:19:40 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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