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Permanent Michael Brown Memorial Planned at Shooting Site
ABC News ^ | May 20, 2015 | By JIM SUHR

Posted on 05/20/2015 1:33:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The makeshift mid-street memorial that marked where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer last summer was cleared out Wednesday — what would have been his 19th birthday — amid plans to install a permanent plaque in his memory nearby.

"I would like the memory of Michael Brown to be a happy one," the marker reads, bearing a likeness of Brown in a graduation cap and gown. "He left an afterglow of smiles when life was done. He leaves an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy and loving times and bright and sunny days.

"He'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun of happy memories that he left behind when life was done."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ferguson; race
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
THIS SHOULD LEAVE AND AFTERGLOW OF SMILES...!!


21 posted on 05/20/2015 1:48:58 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MortMan

LOL... I just smiled.


22 posted on 05/20/2015 1:49:46 PM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nice, if I’m ever in the neighborhood, I’ll know where to make a “pit stop”.


23 posted on 05/20/2015 1:51:26 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will there be a monument to the burned out stores?


24 posted on 05/20/2015 1:52:40 PM PDT by marron
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To: The Toll
... skipping off to College with an armful of books.

Please tell me that one of them will be Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". It would be so apropos on so many number of levels.

25 posted on 05/20/2015 1:53:32 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Gator113

I would BDS the whole crowd that dress like him, I wouldn’t hire them.


26 posted on 05/20/2015 1:53:48 PM PDT by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sung to Jim Croce’s ‘Leroy Brown’:

now big mike is a bully
and he likes his cheap cigar
he should have stuck to petty crime
instead of fight’n cops in cars

now he’s dead dead michael brown
deadist fool in this whole damn town
deader than a road kill dog
gone sooner than the morning fog

now mikey, he got no rules
and he do just what he wants
if you get in his way he’s gonna kick your butt
and throw in a few taunts

now he’s dead dead michael brown
deadist fool in this whole damn town
deader than a road kill dog
gone sooner than the morning fog

but then mikey, he met Darren
and he gave him no respect
he brought his fists to a gun fight
what result did you expect?

now he’s dead dead michael brown
deadist fool in this whole damn town
deader than a road kill dog
gone sooner than the morning fog


27 posted on 05/20/2015 1:59:05 PM PDT by glasseye
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A memorial to their stupidity...in brass no less.


28 posted on 05/20/2015 2:11:38 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ($$$$$ Don't Defund the Government...Defund Obama and his illegal policies $$$$$)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Ha, unless I miss my guess, that’s a TPD [Toledo OH police dept.] shoulder patch in your graphic! I used to live there, decades back. I thought something looked familiar! Must be outside the Toledo Museum of Art, adjacent to a part of T-Town that is known as The Old West End, some of which is...rather Ferguson-like, if you get my drift!


29 posted on 05/20/2015 2:17:17 PM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I read the headline and for some reason thought that they were opening a memorial shooting range at the site to commemorate the event.


30 posted on 05/20/2015 2:57:57 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A permanent memorial to a criminal thug... wow. How touching...


31 posted on 05/20/2015 3:06:24 PM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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To: W.

I didne even notice the locale...to tell you the trruth ...just the fine “redendering” of the “chalk outline” on the sidewalk, and the person walking past it ..apparently leaving a museum of some kind.

Thank you


32 posted on 05/20/2015 3:23:08 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

It’s quite fitting as Toledo has been called ‘Little Detroit’ in NW Ohio for some time now—and it’s moving ever further south...


33 posted on 05/20/2015 3:42:33 PM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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To: W.

Im surprised we havent read about any YOUT Protests.. incidents In Toledo


34 posted on 05/20/2015 4:03:19 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Nope, not much of nothing in that respect. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time, though...


35 posted on 05/20/2015 4:58:12 PM PDT by W. (Animals are much stupider since Noah's Ark, because of inbreeding.--Oglaf)
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To: W.
I did some work in Toledo about 7 years ago. Then, it reminded me of a giant Ypsilanti (Ann Arbor's ghetto neighbor). That's not a compliment.
36 posted on 05/20/2015 5:24:51 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (We need a conservative electable candidate in 2016)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

37 posted on 05/20/2015 6:27:19 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
He left an afterglow of smiles when life was done.

You've got to be kidding.

38 posted on 05/20/2015 7:05:18 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The appropriate memorial would be a pile of HUNAN EXCREMENT.......


39 posted on 06/12/2015 4:14:37 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: zzwhale

Human..... EXCREMENT


40 posted on 06/12/2015 4:17:36 AM PDT by zzwhale
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