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Michael Brown Sr.'s Church Burned in Ferguson
NBC News ^ | 11 | JOHN BRECHER AND RICK BROWN

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: ferguson; michaelbrown; missouri; riots
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1 posted on 11/25/2014 4:51:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Get in line:

Palin’s Church Severely Damaged by Arson
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/13/AR2008121302503.html


2 posted on 11/25/2014 4:52:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: SeekAndFind; Chode

They spared no one in the wrath


3 posted on 11/25/2014 4:53:18 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Better ask Bill Clinton. He is an expert on black churches being burned.


4 posted on 11/25/2014 4:54:13 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: SeekAndFind

couldn’t have been thug bastards setting fire to everything else there. nope./s


5 posted on 11/25/2014 4:54:17 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

It’s a setup for the ‘community fears blowback articles.


6 posted on 11/25/2014 4:54:21 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: SeekAndFind

Rev. Lee: A true man of the clergy should be respectful about the law and not a racist in favor of a crook like Michael Brown


7 posted on 11/25/2014 4:54:27 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Get ready St. Louis . . . Guns Up . . .LnL . . .STK)
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To: SeekAndFind

Must have been the KKK.


8 posted on 11/25/2014 4:54:31 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m going to bet that it was either the protestors or the pastor.


9 posted on 11/25/2014 4:54:34 PM PST by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bet the pastored burned it up his self to get a bigger Obama church


10 posted on 11/25/2014 4:54:43 PM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: Morgana

This pastor doesn’t belong in the pulpit - if he is spewing his views on this case - which are in error. He sounds like a racist to me.


11 posted on 11/25/2014 4:55:11 PM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Or for insurance money.


12 posted on 11/25/2014 4:55:32 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Missouri church where Michael Brown's father was baptized over the weekend was torched Monday night

Nothing coincidental here, I'm sure.

13 posted on 11/25/2014 4:56:06 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nope, no white racists did this. This is simply another self-inflicted HOAX and arson. It serves two purposes, helps make Michael Brown yet another VICTIM and gives the church insurance proceeds to build a replacement (and NEW) church building.


14 posted on 11/25/2014 4:56:21 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, Mike was really upset, eh? I thought it was his idea to “burn this bitch down”.


15 posted on 11/25/2014 4:56:36 PM PST by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: SeekAndFind

thugs are thugs

did he really think he would be safe from these thugs he help to set off


16 posted on 11/25/2014 4:57:05 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: smokingfrog

Ohhhhhh, so that’s where they got to. We heard they were there before the big riots but yet not a single fight involving them? Odd.


17 posted on 11/25/2014 4:58:00 PM PST by uncitizen (I weep for my country)
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To: SeekAndFind

I bet he had a big pile of insurance money on it.


18 posted on 11/25/2014 4:58:02 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
Rev. Lee: A true man of the clergy should be respectful about the law and not a racist in favor of a crook like Michael Brown

I wonder if this preacher ever said anything about God Bless America and chickens coming home to roost from his pulpit.

19 posted on 11/25/2014 4:58:06 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lay Down with Dogs,
Get Up with Fleas

Not just Pretty Words...


20 posted on 11/25/2014 4:58:21 PM PST by HangnJudge
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