Michael Brown's father says family still in mourning
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Associated Press
11 hours ago
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) ? On the eve of the anniversary of Michael Brown being shot and killed during a confrontation with a police officer, Brown's father said Saturday that the family still mourns the 18-year-old's death.
Several weekend events are planned to commemorate Brown's death. Among them was a parade on Saturday led by Michael Brown Sr., starting at the memorial on Canfield Drive in Ferguson that marks the site where Brown was fatally shot by former officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014.
Time has not healed his wounds, Brown said before the procession, in which several hundred people, a drum corps and some cars joined in on the five-mile route to Normandy High School.
"At the end of the day, I still lost my boy," he said. "I'm still hurting. My family's still hurting."
Although the protests were largely subdued during the day, they picked up after dark as hundreds marched outside Ferguson's police department, mocking the handful of officers who stood watch.
Some of the demonstrators carved and ate from the head of a roasted pig, which earlier in the day had the name "Darren Wilson" written on the side of the animal. The pig's head was placed on a concrete barrier near the sidewalk separating the protesters from the officers.
Earlier Saturday, Brown Sr. said the anniversary brings back all of the grief and raw emotions, but that it's important to continue standing up to concerns about police brutality and the use of force. His son's death helped spur a national "Black Lives Matter" movement. As the parade began, he took an armful of stuffed animals and placed them in the middle of the street where his son died.
The U.S. Justice Department and a St. Louis County grand jury cleared Wilson, who resigned in November, of wrongdoing. A separate Justice Department investigation of Ferguson's justice system found evidence of a profit-driven court system and widespread racial bias by police.
Onlookers were mostly scattered in small clusters during the earlier protest. Ferguson interim Police Chief Andre Anderson stood alongside St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar and Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol on West Florissant Avenue, waving to participants in the afternoon parade and shaking hands with some. The street was the site of protests, looting and riots in the aftermath of Brown's death.
A vocal group of about 30 people marching in the parade began chanting "Hands up! Don't shoot!" as they neared the officers, then "Pigs in a blanket fry like bacon." Otherwise, the crowd was peaceful. Police presence was limited mostly to officers at intersections keeping traffic away from the parade, and there were no immediate reports of confrontations.
Darius Simpson, 22, made the trip to Ferguson from Eastern Michigan University for the weekend and was in the parade. Simpson, who is black, said he had never been an activist until Brown's death, but said a visit to Ferguson last year during the height of the unrest changed him.
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"Something snapped in me, seeing the memorial, seeing how Ferguson reacted inspired me to take it back to Michigan," Simpson said.
St. Louis resident Carlatta Bussey, 41, brought her 7-year-old son.
"I wanted to show him he needs to stand up for what he believes in," said Bussey, who is black. "It's important for him to know he has a voice."
Hours after the march attended by the elder Brown, hundreds ? many with "Black Lives Matter" placards ? took part in a similar processional in St. Louis in memory of VonDerrit Myers Jr., a black 18-year-old shot and killed last October by an off-duty St. Louis police officer. The city prosecutor in May announced the officer acted in self-defense after being fired upon by Myers. An attorney for Myers' family says Myers was not armed.
Another march is planned for Sunday, again starting on Canfield Drive. That procession will stop just before noon for a moment of silence to mark the moment Brown was killed.
Brown's father said a lot of families in the St. Louis area and across the nation are hurting because they've lost loved ones to police violence. Though some groups are pledging civil disobedience in the St. Louis region, Brown urged everyone to mark his son's death in peace.
"No drama," he said. "No stupidity, so we can just have some kind of peace."
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Message To Mr Brown
After reading your article I?m stunned, dumbfounded and confused.
Fergusons Legacy is Dorian Johnson a habitual liar and thug devistaed
A city with his lies and deceit.
Lets start at the beginning of this tragedy in Ferguson MO.
On an August morning two empty headed young black males got up in the
Morning. They looked left then right and decided to have another non productive
day frolicking and smoking marijuana.
So Patrik your a 5?6? 130 lb Asian Indian that owns a convenience store in the ghetto
In walks a 6?4? 300 lb. black kid (mike brown) and attempts to steal $24..00 worth of cigars. You catch him and try to stop him and he assaults you and leaves the store.
Now he and his favorite sidekick (Dorian Johnson) start walking down the center of a
Four lane highway?.you know they wanted to be inconspicuous and they encountered a police officer that told them to exit the street and walk on the side walk.
Then came the barrage of ghetto Ebonics *&^%$#$%^&,(*&^$#@, *&^%$#%%&.
Just when you thought it couldn?t get any worse the 6? 4? 300 lb gentle, law abiding youth attacks the police officer, tries to take his weapon, and after the officer gains control this gentle law abiding youth started to run away, but he changed his mind and started to run back toward the officer. See Patrick he wanted to shake hands and make up. Well instead of halting, putting his hands in the air, he decided to, bulrush the policeman. The cop shot him in the arms to stop him, but the 6?4? 300 gentle youth continued his attempt to get to the cop to finish what he didn?t finish in the police car.
Now we have habitual liar a 24 year old man with a twelve year old IQ and demeanor Dorian Johnson decides to tell everyone that Mike Brown had his ?Hands up and said to the cop; Don?t shoot? Now all this happened after Dorian Johnson told everyone that Mike was shot in the back as he was running away. It get better Patrik
Now enter Stage Left the NAACP and other community agitators?.no I?m sorry activist.
Then the faux stepfather fresh out of jail, furthers this fairytale of that habitual liar Dorian Johnson. Oh please where would we be with the National Action Shakedown Network and the Faux Rev. Al Sharpton, the town of Ferguson becomes the epicenter for the media and outside agitators. Three days of burning and looting, there own town and business?s. Just a very thoughtful group of citizens in Ferguson.
Pat this is a better and more accurate story, so post it!
Thank you!
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Associated Press
11 hours ago
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) ? On the eve of the anniversary of Michael Brown being shot and killed during a confrontation with a police officer, Brown's father said Saturday that the family still mourns the 18-year-old's death.
Several weekend events are planned to commemorate Brown's death. Among them was a parade on Saturday led by Michael Brown Sr., starting at the memorial on Canfield Drive in Ferguson that marks the site where Brown was fatally shot by former officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014.
Time has not healed his wounds, Brown said before the procession, in which several hundred people, a drum corps and some cars joined in on the five-mile route to Normandy High School.
"At the end of the day, I still lost my boy," he said. "I'm still hurting. My family's still hurting."
Although the protests were largely subdued during the day, they picked up after dark as hundreds marched outside Ferguson's police department, mocking the handful of officers who stood watch.
Some of the demonstrators carved and ate from the head of a roasted pig, which earlier in the day had the name "Darren Wilson" written on the side of the animal. The pig's head was placed on a concrete barrier near the sidewalk separating the protesters from the officers.
Earlier Saturday, Brown Sr. said the anniversary brings back all of the grief and raw emotions, but that it's important to continue standing up to concerns about police brutality and the use of force. His son's death helped spur a national "Black Lives Matter" movement. As the parade began, he took an armful of stuffed animals and placed them in the middle of the street where his son died.
The U.S. Justice Department and a St. Louis County grand jury cleared Wilson, who resigned in November, of wrongdoing. A separate Justice Department investigation of Ferguson's justice system found evidence of a profit-driven court system and widespread racial bias by police.
Onlookers were mostly scattered in small clusters during the earlier protest. Ferguson interim Police Chief Andre Anderson stood alongside St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar and Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol on West Florissant Avenue, waving to participants in the afternoon parade and shaking hands with some. The street was the site of protests, looting and riots in the aftermath of Brown's death.
A vocal group of about 30 people marching in the parade began chanting "Hands up! Don't shoot!" as they neared the officers, then "Pigs in a blanket fry like bacon." Otherwise, the crowd was peaceful. Police presence was limited mostly to officers at intersections keeping traffic away from the parade, and there were no immediate reports of confrontations.
Darius Simpson, 22, made the trip to Ferguson from Eastern Michigan University for the weekend and was in the parade. Simpson, who is black, said he had never been an activist until Brown's death, but said a visit to Ferguson last year during the height of the unrest changed him.
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"Something snapped in me, seeing the memorial, seeing how Ferguson reacted inspired me to take it back to Michigan," Simpson said.
St. Louis resident Carlatta Bussey, 41, brought her 7-year-old son.
"I wanted to show him he needs to stand up for what he believes in," said Bussey, who is black. "It's important for him to know he has a voice."
Hours after the march attended by the elder Brown, hundreds ? many with "Black Lives Matter" placards ? took part in a similar processional in St. Louis in memory of VonDerrit Myers Jr., a black 18-year-old shot and killed last October by an off-duty St. Louis police officer. The city prosecutor in May announced the officer acted in self-defense after being fired upon by Myers. An attorney for Myers' family says Myers was not armed.
Another march is planned for Sunday, again starting on Canfield Drive. That procession will stop just before noon for a moment of silence to mark the moment Brown was killed.
Brown's father said a lot of families in the St. Louis area and across the nation are hurting because they've lost loved ones to police violence. Though some groups are pledging civil disobedience in the St. Louis region, Brown urged everyone to mark his son's death in peace.
"No drama," he said. "No stupidity, so we can just have some kind of peace."
Start a discussion
Message To Mr Brown
After reading your article I?m stunned, dumbfounded and confused.
Fergusons Legacy is Dorian Johnson a habitual liar and thug devistaed
A city with his lies and deceit.
Lets start at the beginning of this tragedy in Ferguson MO.
On an August morning two empty headed young black males got up in the
Morning. They looked left then right and decided to have another non productive
day frolicking and smoking marijuana.
So Patrik your a 5?6? 130 lb Asian Indian that owns a convenience store in the ghetto
In walks a 6?4? 300 lb. black kid (mike brown) and attempts to steal $24..00 worth of cigars. You catch him and try to stop him and he assaults you and leaves the store.
Now he and his favorite sidekick (Dorian Johnson) start walking down the center of a
Four lane highway?.you know they wanted to be inconspicuous and they encountered a police officer that told them to exit the street and walk on the side walk.
Then came the barrage of ghetto Ebonics *&^%$#$%^&,(*&^$#@, *&^%$#%%&.
Just when you thought it couldn?t get any worse the 6? 4? 300 lb gentle, law abiding youth attacks the police officer, tries to take his weapon, and after the officer gains control this gentle law abiding youth started to run away, but he changed his mind and started to run back toward the officer. See Patrick he wanted to shake hands and make up. Well instead of halting, putting his hands in the air, he decided to, bulrush the policeman. The cop shot him in the arms to stop him, but the 6?4? 300 gentle youth continued his attempt to get to the cop to finish what he didn?t finish in the police car.
Now we have habitual liar a 24 year old man with a twelve year old IQ and demeanor Dorian Johnson decides to tell everyone that Mike Brown had his ?Hands up and said to the cop; Don?t shoot? Now all this happened after Dorian Johnson told everyone that Mike was shot in the back as he was running away. It get better Patrik
Now enter Stage Left the NAACP and other community agitators?.no I?m sorry activist.
Then the faux stepfather fresh out of jail, furthers this fairytale of that habitual liar Dorian Johnson. Oh please where would we be with the National Action Shakedown Network and the Faux Rev. Al Sharpton, the town of Ferguson becomes the epicenter for the media and outside agitators. Three days of burning and looting, there own town and business?s. Just a very thoughtful group of citizens in Ferguson.
Pat this is a better and more accurate story, so post it!
Thank you!
