Posted on 05/20/2015 1:33:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The makeshift mid-street memorial that marked where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer last summer was cleared out Wednesday — what would have been his 19th birthday — amid plans to install a permanent plaque in his memory nearby.
"I would like the memory of Michael Brown to be a happy one," the marker reads, bearing a likeness of Brown in a graduation cap and gown. "He left an afterglow of smiles when life was done. He leaves an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy and loving times and bright and sunny days.
"He'd like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun of happy memories that he left behind when life was done."
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will pissing on the memorial be a hate crime?
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