Posted on 11/25/2014 4:51:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Missouri church where Michael Brown's father was baptized over the weekend was torched Monday night — but the pastor does not think the arson was part of the fiery violence that erupted elsewhere in the community.
The Rev. Carlton Lee told NBC News that he believes Flood Christian Church was targeted because he has repeatedly called for the arrest of Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot the unarmed teen but was not indicted by a grand jury.
"I'm very vocal in regards to the Michael Brown case," said Lee, who has participated in rallies and press conferences with Michael Brown Sr.
The church went up in flames around the same time about a dozen other buildings were set ablaze in Ferguson by protesters angered by the grand jury's decision, but it's on a remote section of West Florissant Avenue where other structures were unscathed.
"The police called me and told me the church was on fire," Lee said. "I was in complete disbelief. I didn't think anyone would set a church on fire.
"I feel like one of my children has died. I put my blood, my sweat, my tears into this church, getting this church built from the ground up. To see that it was taken down in a few minutes is really heartbreaking."
He said he told Michael Brown Sr. about the extensive damage on Tuesday afternoon. "He was just devastated again," he said.
The pastor said he doubted the same people who were raging on the other end of West Florissant had burned his church. Instead, he said, he suspected white supremacists who wanted to punish him for his support of the Brown family, who had just been baptized there.
"Sunday, we do the baptism, Monday, the church is one fire. It just doesn't add up,"
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I'd think that a savvy businessman, who had a pretty good idea of what was coming, could clear out the store of high-quality merchandise and stock the shelves with damaged or low-demand products to clear out his inventory of dead stock and problem merchandise... billing the insurance company once the inevitable riots hit.
But maybe I'm just Machiavellian. And, of course, NOTHING excuses what happened there. Who loots a Family Dollar Store, anyway? And what would Walgreen's have that would justify this?
I was wondering if, maybe, the liquor on the shelves of the looted store might just be full of methanol. The bottles are for “display only”.
Wow, those pictures are stunning. It looks like a war zone.
This is not a nice thing to say, but I’ll say it. No one from outside Ferguson should touch it, to clean it up. Leave it that way and let the people who live there either clean it up or live with what their neighbors have done.
At some point, there has to be some condemnation of violence and destruction from within their own community.
Medicines are expensive by weight and by volume...
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
>> “The Missouri church where Michael Brown’s father was baptized over the weekend...” <<
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New found faith? or just poor writing skills?
I do find it amazing and surprising that the old guy would attend church.
How did the son become a thug?
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Sadly, yes I can believe exactly that. I've seen this kind of denial, this kind of refusal to face simple facts before...
the infowarrior
Just as *I* am certain that the only "white supremacists" within 100 miles of Ferguson, MO did their work not for an organization known as KKK, but organizations known as ABC, CBS, NBC, et al...
the infowarrior
Yes, but they know it and are counting on the government to step in with their usual big bags of goodies.
Bush’s fault!
Bullshite Rev, bullshite.
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