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 agree.
Smells like an insurance scam. Cash in while test of is going to the sh#tter.
If your church has insurance, it will be interesting to find out if you get a payout for damages.
It surely wouldn't be the first scam of this type ever done. It's a cliche for a reason.
Serious question for any of you familiar with insurance policies and regulations: don’t most policies omit coverage for acts of war, terrorism, and civil insurrection?
White supremists...yeh right..
Wonder how much insurance is on the building. Who knows it just might be a case of taking advantage and burning it down himself to collect the money.
Never know.
Really Rev. Lee? Are you nuts...blacks will burn anything including churches....
My guess....pastor paid an arsonist 10 bucks.
I read he stepfather was baptised there on Sunday before the burning, and I read here he was an ex-con...so was he a member of a gang in prison?
OR maybe after the burning downtown at his orders, someone who owned a business burned may have been upset?
The Pastor thinks it is the KKK?
Lots of people in Ferguson who aren’t from there looting and burning...
Almost betting he just took out a new policy..
A while back I read somewhere that an astonishingly high percentage of business fires during the L.A. riots were suspected as being SELF-INFLICTED BY THE BUSINESS OWNERS THEMSELVES, OR ‘FOR HIRE’ INSURANCE ARSONS!!!
No the church was in Ferguson that I read info about...will go back and check.
How many of the Ferguson fires were ‘insurance arson’ fires where the business owner was complicit??
It wasn’t Mike Brown Sr. that stated that, it was the step-father.
I have no idea...and would an insurance company cover that?
Which one was baptized Sunday in the Church that was burned down on Monday night?
“...but the pastor does not think the arson was part of the fiery violence that erupted elsewhere in the community.”
oooooh, nooooo. Not a chance! Open your eyes padre! You are part of the problem.
And I am certain you will keep telling yourself that even if all evidence proves otherwise.
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