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Throng mourns executed former gang leader at LA funeral [Tookie Williams]
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/20/05 | PETER PRENGAMAN

Posted on 12/20/2005 3:08:07 PM PST by TFFKAMM

Mourners overflowed a church Tuesday for the funeral of executed murderer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams, listening to eulogies by hip-hop star Snoop Dogg and Rev. Jesse Jackson and a recording of Williams urging peace.

As police watched, mourners including gang members flashing hand signs gathered at the 1,500-seat Bethel AME Church in South Los Angeles and in a parking lot where a TV showed the funeral for Williams, who was executed Dec. 13 despite a celebrity-studded campaign for clemency.

Snoop Dogg recited a poem, "Until We Meet Again," in which he referred to the execution.

"It's nine-fifteen on twelve-thirteen and another black king will be taken from the scene," he said. A stanza that stated, "I don't believe Stan did it," drew wild applause in the parking lot.

Jackson said that at the end Williams saw himself as a "healer, not a predator," and a message recorded by the condemned man in prison was played for the mourners.

"The war within me is over. I battled my demons and I was triumphant," Williams said on the tape, in which he asked listeners to spread a message to loved ones.

"Teach them how to avoid our destructive footsteps. Teach them to strive for higher education. Teach them to promote peace and teach them to focus on rebuilding the neighborhoods that you, others and I helped to destroy," he said...

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
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1 posted on 12/20/2005 3:08:09 PM PST by TFFKAMM
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To: TFFKAMM
Snoop Dogg recited a poem, "Until We Meet Again,"

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll see each other again.

2 posted on 12/20/2005 3:09:50 PM PST by neodad (Rule Number 1: Be Armed)
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To: TFFKAMM

Hard to beat a good gangland funeral...should be more of them, really.


3 posted on 12/20/2005 3:09:50 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: TFFKAMM

"Until We Meet Again,"

I hope to take a different direction.


4 posted on 12/20/2005 3:09:53 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: TFFKAMM


Bottom line...one less murderer to feed.


5 posted on 12/20/2005 3:10:18 PM PST by SouthernFreebird
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"I'm here to pay my respects to humanity, and that goes to Tookie and everyone else they do in. ... What if it was your son?" Birdsong said. "He's no different from any other human being. We all made mistakes."

Shotgunning four innocent people in cold blood is a "MISTAKE"?

6 posted on 12/20/2005 3:10:21 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: TFFKAMM

So The AME church has a gang connection.


7 posted on 12/20/2005 3:10:28 PM PST by zipp_city
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As police watched, mourners including gang members flashing hand signs gathered at the 1,500-seat Bethel AME Church in South Los Angeles...

So the church can hold 1,500. Yet no mention of how many punk-ass gangbangers showed up...including Snoop Dogg.

"It's nine-fifteen on twelve-thirteen and another black king will be taken from the scene," he said.

The black community needs to be more selecting about their "kings." If they think Tookie was any kind of "king," then they are truly lost.

8 posted on 12/20/2005 3:10:55 PM PST by Prime Choice (We are RepubliCANs, not RepubliCAN'Ts.)
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"mourners including gang members flashing hand signs gathered at the 1,500-seat Bethel AME Church in South Central"
9 posted on 12/20/2005 3:11:23 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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When Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown the British Army band played a well known tune of the day called The world turned upside down

That tune would be an appropriate dirge for this funeral
10 posted on 12/20/2005 3:12:08 PM PST by The Lumster
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Shotgunning four innocent people in cold blood is a "MISTAKE"?

Yep...he intended to kill 5.

11 posted on 12/20/2005 3:13:40 PM PST by evad
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Dear Idiotic Leftists,

Just look on Tookie's execution as a Late-Late-LATE-term "abortion." Then it'll all be okay with you idiot punks.

Sincerely,

Joe American
"Just shut up and take that filthy murderer's ashes out of the country already!"

12 posted on 12/20/2005 3:14:45 PM PST by Prime Choice (We are RepubliCANs, not RepubliCAN'Ts.)
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You're right.

Old Ray Patriarca's funeral was one of the best ever seen in RI.


13 posted on 12/20/2005 3:15:06 PM PST by Mears (The Killer Queen)
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Snoop Dogg and Tony Robbins? What happened to all his Hollywierd Gliberal pals? They didn't want to lower themselves to associate with the fellow-thugs that attended Tookie's long overdue funeral?


14 posted on 12/20/2005 3:15:44 PM PST by No Longer Free State (No event has just one cause, no person has just one motive, no action has just the intended effect)
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When have this many Black "luminaries" ever attended the funeral of a Black Soldier or a Black Police Officer?
15 posted on 12/20/2005 3:16:03 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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Just how many morons are there in a throng?


16 posted on 12/20/2005 3:16:35 PM PST by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: TFFKAMM
Snoop Dogg recited a poem, "Until We Meet Again,"

The sooner that meeting can be arranged, the better.

"It's nine-fifteen on twelve-thirteen and another black king will be taken from the scene,"

"It's 9:20, the cocktail was plenty; don't care what he said cuz' now he's just dead."

Jackson said that at the end Williams saw himself as a "healer, not a predator,"

I'm sure he did. I knew a gal once who saw herself as the Empress Anastasia.

"The war within me is over.

"However, the maggots within me are tickling my innards."

I battled my demons and I was triumphant,"

"That's why I'm delivering this message to you from across the Great Divide." You misread the box score, Stan: Tookie 0, Needle 1.

18 posted on 12/20/2005 3:17:15 PM PST by IronJack
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Kinda like the Starwars scene where Jabba the Hut's monster was killed by Luke. Jabba's thugs cried when the monster was killed.


19 posted on 12/20/2005 3:18:08 PM PST by Enterprise
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"Until We Meet Again"

aka

"Tookie, Tookie, Lend Me Your Tomb"...


20 posted on 12/20/2005 3:18:14 PM PST by LRS
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