Posted on 05/20/2015 1:55:27 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
FERGUSON The memorial to Michael Brown on Canfield Drive has been removed and will replaced by a plaque and a statue, Mayor James Knowles III and Michael Brown Sr. announced Wednesday.
Knowles said the Urban League will store the stuffed animals and other items that have formed the temporary memorial down the center of Canfield Drive since Aug. 9, when Michael Brown was shot and killed there by a Ferguson police officer.
Flanked by newly-elected Ferguson City Council members Wesley Bell and Ella Jones, Knowles and Brown Sr. said the plaque will be part of a new permanent memorial in the area.
In an interview after the news conference, Bell said that the new memorial along Canfield will include the figure of a dove, and that Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, had been involved with the planning. The metallic dove and the plaque will be embedded in the sidewalk along Canfield.
Brown's father said the stuffed animals and other items along the road had become a safety hazard.
Wednesday would have been Michael Brown's 19th birthday. His family and community members gathered at the memorial around noon and began removing the items. By 1:15 p.m. or so, the street was clear.
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How soon will it be stolen and sold to the highest bidder?
♫ and de law won... ♪
“I’m lighting up a fine cigar to honor his many achievements.”
It’s gotta be the shortest cigar in Ferguson. Two puffs and snuff it out.
Does he have a headstone yet?
“Does he have a headstone yet?”
It’s cigar shaped.
Like it or not,
He was a thug.
He got shot,
His grave is dug.
Fuggetaboutit!
Afterglow
by Helen Lowrie Marshall
Id like the memory of me to be a happy one
Id like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done.
Id like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways
of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days.
Id like the tears of those who grieve to dry before the sun
of happy memories that I leave behind when day is done.
I wonder if Ms. Marshall approved of her poem on this marker, or if she even knows of it ? Plagiarism ?
Stealing cheap cigars or plagarizing... what’s the big difference?
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