Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise

The New York Times ^ | August 24, 2014 | John Eligon

[2ndDivisionVet]

FERGUSON, Mo. — It was 1 a.m. and Michael Brown Jr. called his father, his voice trembling. He had seen something overpowering. In the thick gray clouds that lingered from a passing storm this past June, he made out an angel. And he saw Satan chasing the angel and the angel running into the face of God. Mr. Brown was a prankster, so his father and stepmother chuckled at first.

“No, no, Dad! No!” the elder Mr. Brown remembered his son protesting. “I’m serious.”

And the black teenager from this suburb of St. Louis, who had just graduated from high school, sent his father and stepmother a picture of the sky from his cellphone. “Now I believe,” he told them.

In the weeks afterward, until his shooting death by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, on Aug. 9, they detected a change in him as he spoke seriously about religion and the Bible. He was grappling with life’s mysteries.

Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life....

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

LOL! I know, hey how is he going to protest if he gets a job?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I don’t know, but they said he smoked the stuff regularly

http://deadspin.com/report-aaron-hernandez-was-a-gun-toting-pcp-addict-1214405203

[republicanbred]

Priceless...a picture speaks a thousand words!

[DJ MacWoW]

:-)

[Vesparado]

This article really needs “barf alert” next to the headline ...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Here it is: “The New York Times”

[boop]

Did anyone notice that at the "tribute site" where Brown was shot, that people left bottles of MD 20/20, packages of Swisher Sweets, rolling papers, 40 oz. malt liquor bottles, etc.

Nothing strange about that, but about 75% of the "tributes" were half used/drank/smoked.

Love ya, Big Mike, but first, let me drink half a bottle of Wild Irish Rose to show my affection.

I'll toss a couple of empty cigar packages your way...

It had to be the most pathetic "tribute" shrine I've ever seen.

[palmer]

"grappling with life's mysteries"
Barf! He spent his final minutes stealing cigars and assaulting a shop owner.

It may well have been a mystery to Michael why the puny store owner was obstructing him and resisting the theft. Who knows what was going through Michael's mind at that point.

[kalee]

Or drugs.

[Gay State Conservative]

So the gentle giant was showing early signs of schizophrenia.The early symptoms first appear from the mid-teens to the mid twenties.Add marijuana to that and you've got a 300 pound guy with a paranoia problem.Given that the cop in question didn't have the training...or the time,,,to diagnose the guy his only option was to shoot.

[Tennessee Nana]

Hes also suppose to have dreamed of someone’s death..

now they claim it was his own..

Sounds like God was sending him a message and warning him to change his ways...

[Red in Blue PA]

So he saw an angel and then robbed a store?

This is the CRAP the New York Slime wants us to believe ?

[Red in Blue PA]

Post of the day!

Spot on!

[Gene Eric]

Yeah, it sucks when human potential is wasted, but what about the victims that are not behaving criminally? Do they ever, ever have a voice, John Eligon?

[Frank_2001]

I miss Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Just for starters they had REAL names...I mean WTF is a “Tef Poe”??? ;)

[BigIsleGal]

Angel Dust....

[DoughtyOne]

I believe that is true. On the other hand, we only hear what the press reports out of Africa. Any peaceful endeavors would be deemed not news-worthy.

We hear of the atrocities but nothing of the people who strive to live in a peaceful family setting.

Now, do we get the atrocities here? No. Do they get the relative peace there? I doubt it. It’s hard to say what percent of the populace on the African Continent live in relative peace.

Even in the Arab states, there is a robust economy of sorts. Some folks have decent incomes and what passes for decent dwellings.

Many are dirt poor too.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Kaylee.

[TomServo]

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[miserare]

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