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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They torched it demselves. To gits a new, betta chuch!!!
most likely it was burned because once you push the crazy button, you get all kinds of crazy stuff.
If they can prove that the destruction was self-inflicted, you can get prosecuted for insurance fraud. Serious crime.
oops, my mistake,
“but the pastor does not think the arson was part of the fiery violence that erupted elsewhere in the community. “
Oh, neither do I. White, probably, supremacists, no.
In fact, they were probably reddish-white, trying to incite more rioting.
It's ironic that the majority of businesses vandalized were minority owned.
Stupid is as stupid does. Thank Jesse, Al and 0bama for this, victims.
I have to admit it can almost make me chuckle, though. These people voted for 0bama, overwhelmingly.
Insurance Fraud?
Who is burning churches now?
God is maybe closing him down.
His blindness to the irony is breathtaking. He says,”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.”
. . . And yet he apparently cannot see that every one of the owners and managers and employees of the small businesses that were destroyed all felt the same way.
Payback is a b*tch, isn’t it? Oh, wait . . . he also said “Burn this b*tch down.”
Blind.
When the Holy Spirit moves into darkness it sometimes causes quite a blaze as it’s Light begins to shine.
it was tourhced because people in Ferguson like to touch and burn things when given the opportunity and just like their judgement on brown they don’t have much information on anything as to determine guilt or innocence side.
There is almost nobody out on the streets burning looting or otherwise even protesting for Wilson because those people got what they wanted.
I smell insurance fraud.
RE: Who is burning churches now?
The pastor is blaming “White Supremacists” he never identified.
The ‘pastor’ probably had the building torched believing that the obamaroid regime will funnel monies to the area for rebuilding and this ‘pastor’ wants his building expanded.
I’m sure if there were white supremacists running around setting black churches on fire the media would have been all over it.
Yeah. Some pastor.
“Sunday, we do the baptism, Monday, the church is one fire. It just doesn’t add up,”
Baptism by fire?
Maybe someone misunderstood him when he said “Burn it down” and thought he meant his church.
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