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Michael Brown’s mother is running for office in Ferguson, Missouri
Standing near the spot where her son was gunned down, Michael Brown’s mother, Lezley McSpadden, announced she is running for city council in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Cops make disgusting online ‘memorial’ mocking death of Ferguson’s Michael Brown
An online group dedicated to police officers posted a wildly offensive “memorial” to slain Ferguson, Missouri teenager Michael Brown on the social medium Facebook. After an outcry, it now appears the tasteless post has been removed.
The Free Thought Project reported that the Facebook group Police Officers posted the offensive image in advance of the 1-year anniversary of Brown’s slaying at the hands of police officer Darren Wilson.
The image showed a photoshopped gravestone with Brown’s dates of birth and death along with a poem that said:
There once was a thug named Brown,
Who bum-rushed a cop with a frown,
Six bullets later,
He met his creator,
Then his homies burnt down the town
Before it was taken down, the post received nearly 4,000 Facebook “likes” and was shared more than 1,700 times.
Some users, however, objected to the post.
“Sorry, while I support my LEO [law enforcement officer] brothers,” wrote one commenter, “this is very distasteful. We are above this garbage. Should take down.”
The Police Officers administrator replied that “Mike Brown chose his path, one that has lead [sic] this country into complete divisiveness. He’s not a martyr, he was a thug, who robbed a clerk then made the adult choice to fight a cop, of which he intended to murder.”
“At the end of the day,” the post continued, “the person truly responsible for the killing of Mike Brown is Mike Brown himself.”
Brown’s was one of the factors that touched off the #BlackLivesMatter movement and has remained a bone of contention in the year since.
Officer Wilson was profiled this week in a New Yorker article in which he said he is trying to put the slaying of the unarmed teen behind him and that he and his family are living in anonymity. To avoid conflict, Wilson said when the family dines out, they go to businesses frequented by “like-minded individuals” and restaurants that “aren’t a mixing-pot.” The offensive rhyme seems to have originated on a now-banned Reddit community called “CoonTown,” but was reprinted on Facebook by the Libertarian group Communism Kills.
Mike Brown’s Mom Says She Will Never Forgive Darren Wilson
During an interview with Al Jazeera America set to air Wednesday, McSpadden said she will “never” pardon Wilson for slaying her son. She also commented on a recent profile of Wilson in the New Yorker, in which he stated, “Do I think about who he was as a person?’ Not really, because it doesn’t matter at this point,” when speaking on Brown. Wilson also said he doesn’t believe Brown had the “right upbringing.”
“He’s evil,” said McSpadden. “And we definitely know he didn’t have the right upbringing because those are words that you just don’t use especially after you took somebody’s life.
“But he can’t hurt me with his words. What he did last year hurt me really bad. So his words mean nothing to me.”
The Department of Justice cleared Wilson in March, stating that the former cop did not violate Brown’s constitutional rights. A St. Louis County grand jury decided not to indict Wilson in the killing of Brown in December, igniting protests nationally.
Hundreds are expected to gather this weekend in Ferguson in memory of Brown for concerts, rallies and other events.
I don’t understand their point of asking her if she forgives him, who is Darren Wilson for her to forgive him?
he took the life of her child! By the way the act of forgiving someone, is between yourself and God,
it’s no one else’s business. No one else has to know, if you have forgiven that person or not the media is just being messy once again. -___-