Michael Brown’s Parents Brace for Funeral and Call for Peace
The death of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old who was shot dead by a police officer, reverberated from the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to the White House, igniting two weeks of protests and stirring a national discussion on race and policing in America.
Thousands are expected to pay their respects to Brown on Monday at a Baptist church in St. Louis, six miles from the spot where he was killed, including activists, politicians, and members of the Obama Administration. For his parents, the service at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church will be both very public and intensely personal — their chance to say goodbye to a son whose death made him household name.
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