Mike Brown the 18 year old unarmed teen, who was executed by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer was laid to rest yesterday, in an emotional and moving service attended by over two thousand mourners.
In a rousing speech, the Rev. Al Sharpton reminded mourners that 18-year-old Brown “should be in his second week of college.” And described how Brown’s body was left on the street for hours after he was killed “like nobody cared about him, like he didn’t have any loved ones, like his life value didn’t matter.”
“We’re required in his name to change this country,” Sharpton said to cheers. “Justice is going to come! Justice is going to come! Justice is going to come!”
The vast majority of mourners at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church were African-American and many said they were deeply moved by the funeral.
Brown’s stepmother shared how Mike told her a month before he was gunned down in the streets that he kept dreaming about death.
“I’ve been dreaming of death, seeing pictures of death, seeing pictures of bloody sheets hanging on clotheslines” ‘That touched me” his stepmom said. “That’s what it was like when he was laying there on the street (after being shot). He prophesized his own death.”
Right now, a St. Louis County grand jury is considering whether to charge the white officer with a crime. Wilson, 28, has not been seen since the killing and has made no statements.
The cop just couldn’t shoot to wound instead he shot to kill. Smdh
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It’s time for the truth to come out in the investigation and this press frenzy to stop.
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I feel for the parents. No matter what happened, they lost a child.
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R. I. P Mike Brown.
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RIP Mike Brown.
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No one should have to lose a child, that is all. My condolences.
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So, the NY Post issued an article TODAY stating that Michael Brown was “no angel.”
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So, the NY Post issued an article TODAY stating that Michael Brown was “no angel.”
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What azzes….nobody’s perfect
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So, the NY Post issued an article TODAY stating that Michael Brown was “no angel.”
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he still didn’t deserve 6 bullets one in the head then lie in the street like a dog dying. 😥
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RIP Big Mike 😥
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I know I watched the funeral live yesterday and rev al know he preached!
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Watched it at work n was holding back my tears. 😥
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Good morning
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morning mrs.
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morning ladies
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Zup
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Good morning
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Sup fam.
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Morning ladies n gents
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morning
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morning
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Hey people.
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moaning all
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Hey peeps……who from the tri-state went to Tra’s book event? why ain’t nobody saying shit about it???
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Sup y’all..
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Morning
@Omar I didn’t go but ordered the book online.
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morning
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morning
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Morning
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good morning fam
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Good morning all
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Good morning
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Good morning
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Good morning everyone.
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Morning
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morning all
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Lord, help me. I tried not to watch, but listened to Reverend Al deliver the eulogy it was so sad.
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Man, Al Sharpton put all they shit out there yesterday.
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Man, Al Sharpton put all they shit out there yesterday.
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Ain’t he tho???? He said more people concerned with being ON the program than creating a program!!!! Say that shyt AL!!!
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So they put Al on the CNN APP, but not on CNN TV. 😆
That nigga went in hard
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Watching his mother had me in tears :crying:
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So, they had family members from Trayvon Martin, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Jordan Davis AND Emmett Till all at this funeral.
It’s a doggone shame this list of names is well known and growing. SMH.
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I caught the Don Lemon interview of Ms. McSpadden, Trayvon’s mother and Sean Bell’s mother. Heart wrenching.
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I caught the Don Lemon interview of Ms. McSpadden, Trayvon’s mother and Sean Bell’s mother. Heart wrenching.
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Saw that one. I was crying then I became angry. Once Mike walked away from that car, he wasn’t a threat. If you can’t chase down a 300lb boy, you ain’t fit for duty. Tazer him, heck hit him with the baton but to shoot him AT LEAST six times?! No. I’m not here for that. When will it end?
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Rev. Al preached that thang tho!!!!!
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God bless the family :pray: praying for justice
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Rev. Al. What we gone do aside from complaining?!
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“Now you wanna be a nigga, and call your woman a hoe.”
😮
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Rev. Al’s bobble head preached his azz off.
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Rev. Al BROUGHT IT…..YES HE DID!!!
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That has got to be a parents worst nightmare. Especially now, for the parents who are raising young black boys.. Terrifying
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I have mad respect for Al for real only because my parents schooled me well and continue to do do so
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I want to see the replay of Al Sharpton
Yea people are quick to clown him but where are they at??? Not there. His very presence brings awareness to the cause. Unlike Jesse Jackson
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And that choir, they showed the fuck out!
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And that choir, they showed the fuck out!
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They were fascinated knowing they were on camera
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And that choir, they showed the fuck out!
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Yes they did! And I didn’t think they’d ever stop singing.
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They sung this as the family walked out behind the coffin 😥
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Get up!!!
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Forever a favorite😍
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Sharpton was right.
Folks gone leave, but that family still got deal with the pain. Lord help us.
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I want to see the replay of Al Sharpton
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Jesse messy ass been laying low lately….I hope that becomes the norm 😆
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jesse all talk
no action
We need a plan of Action!!!!!
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Jesse messy ass been laying low lately….I hope that becomes the norm
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He was there. I heard some audio of activists telling him that he’s not welcome, because he’s only been riding around in his limo. They told him that he didn’t come to march. He just came to be seen.
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Feel terrible for his mother and for all of his family. This type of thing needs to be stopped for good and I truly hope we see some legislation that is going to stop police from gunning down our people for no reason AND hold them crimanlly accountable when/if they do.
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If you cannot control yourself don’t do it in Michael’s name … Do it in YOUR OWN NAME…………Rev Al!!! :claps:
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Am I the only one who hates home going services should not be on TV?! They made me feel so bad and sad. I feel bad for this boys parents and family. Smh. RIP
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• “We can’t have a fit. We’ve got to have a movement,” the Rev. Al Sharpton says, calling not for short-term protests but a long-term effort to change attitudes and laws.
• Sharpton speaks of recent incidents of police violence in America, saying that “it’s time to deal with policing. We are not the haters, we’re the healers.”
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God bless his mother and father. 😥
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Any death is sad…. I can’t speak on those killed by police officer… Hell we buried somebody this past Saturday….. I hate funerals…. give me a grave side service cause those funerals be hard on the family lawd have mercy :no: My parents said they want graveside service too … and that’s what we will give them…. death is tough
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We should be outraged when someone is murdered period. But if we can’t understand why folks are protesting a COP killing a boy in the street and his body lying in the street. I’m sorry. Can’t help you.
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“Blackness was never about being a gangster or a thug. Blackness was no matter how low we was pushed down, we rose up anyhow.
Blackness was never surrendering our pursuit of excellence. It was when it was against the law to go to some schools, we built black colleges… we never gave up.
Now, in the 21st century, we get to where we got some positions of power. And you decide it ain’t black no more to be successful. Now you want to be a n—– and call your woman a ho. You’ve lost where you’ve come from.
We’ve got to clean up our community so we can clean up the United States of America.”
Rev. Bobblehead Al Sharpton 🙂
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I’m just tired of being tired
I really am …. sometimes we gotta ignore somethings…. tensions are high right now and may be for a while…. I don’t have the strength anymore…. I don’t for real…
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