Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise

The New York Times ^ | August 24, 2014 | John Eligon

[2ndDivisionVet]

FERGUSON, Mo. — It was 1 a.m. and Michael Brown Jr. called his father, his voice trembling. He had seen something overpowering. In the thick gray clouds that lingered from a passing storm this past June, he made out an angel. And he saw Satan chasing the angel and the angel running into the face of God. Mr. Brown was a prankster, so his father and stepmother chuckled at first.

“No, no, Dad! No!” the elder Mr. Brown remembered his son protesting. “I’m serious.”

And the black teenager from this suburb of St. Louis, who had just graduated from high school, sent his father and stepmother a picture of the sky from his cellphone. “Now I believe,” he told them.

In the weeks afterward, until his shooting death by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, on Aug. 9, they detected a change in him as he spoke seriously about religion and the Bible. He was grappling with life’s mysteries.

Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with public records and interviews with friends and family revealing both problems and promise in his young life....

[2ndDivisionVet]

So it begins.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

All pray to Saint Charging Bull and his bouquet of Swisher Sweets.

[vladimir998]

He was high.

[Qiviut]

Michael should have taken the ‘hint’.

[Red Badger]

Drugs will do that to you.................

[dalebert]

Here we go again. We now learn what deep thinker he was.

[cripplecreek]

He grappled with a store owner and then he grappled with a cop.

[Dick Vomer]

“I believe...”
“I believe..”
“I believe that I’m gonna get me some Swisher Sweets and kick some ass”
“CAN I GET A WITNESS, HEEYAAH?!!” (hands up in prayer to the big pimp in the sky)

[ifinnegan]

This is weird.

NYT has gone crazier than usual.

[tet68]

Life isn’t a mystery to him any more...

[LongWayHome]

Lol, we lost a prophet. Liberalism is a mental illness.

[shelterguy]

“””In the weeks afterward, until his shooting death by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, on Aug. 9, they detected a change in him as he spoke seriously about religion and the Bible. He was grappling with life’s mysteries. “”””

So the cop who murdered this choir boy in cold blood was white? Boy, I guess they don’t mention that about a million times a day.

Plus, I remember seeing some odd things in the clouds when I was younger, too. Especially after eating brownies.

[Jewbacca]

And he spent his last moments attacking a cop.

[lonevoice]

But don’t you see? St. Michael received a divine vision, one that obviously prophecied his own death. Officer Wilson is clearly Satan, and the angel fleeing into the arms of God himself is clearly St. Michael. Everyone knows Satan is evil incarnate, so who can argue that Wilson must die? < /sarc>

[jennychase]

PCP can show Angels everywhere.

[Berlin_Freeper]

he made out an angel. And he saw Satan chasing the angel and the angel running

Kind of like his strong-arm store robbery.

[Milton Miteybad]

One of his problems was he liked to steal stuff from other people. That's a big problem. Another is that he never learned to follow instructions...like when the nice policeman tells you to get out of the street and onto the sidewalk. Another problem Big Mike had was his inability to determine whether it's a good idea to start whacking an armed police officer about the head and shoulders.

However...I'm still having some difficulty seeing the "promise" part with regard to Big Mike. I guess his "promise" rested in his potential as a future prison inmate.

[CatherineofAragon]

Didn’t grapple hard enough, it looks like.

[Olog-hai]

And he spent his last minutes grappling with Darren Wilson for the police officer’s gun.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yep, here comes the deification of Michael Brown just like the deification of Saint Trayvon the attempted murderer.

How do you like this? How about they hold a benefit for the store owner he robbed and terrorized?