Ferguson, MO

[TPA85]

Alpha Phi Alpha has offered to pay all memorial expenses for Michael Brown: http://newsone.com/3045485/alpha-phi...eral-services/

[lake]

Originally Posted by TPA85

Alpha Phi Alpha has offered to pay all memorial expenses for Michael Brown: http://newsone.com/3045485/alpha-phi...eral-services/

This is an incredibly classy gesture.

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by lake

This is an incredibly classy gesture.

It doesn't appear very classy to pay for a funeral for someone beat up a cop and robbed a convenience store. Is that what that fraternity stands for?

[lake]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

It doesn't appear very classy to pay for a funeral for someone beat up a cop and robbed a convenience store. Is that what that fraternity stands for?

No, but a funeral is for the living, not the dead. No matter what Michael Brown did nor did not do, he left behind people who are grieving the fact that he is dead and that they will never see him again. As far as I'm concerned, Alpha Phi Alpha is reaching out to comfort people they don't even know, who possibly don't have the means to give their loved one the service they would like him to have. And that to me is a very classy gesture.

[ZetaPhi708.20]

More clashes in Ferguson tonight.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by ZetaPhi708.20

More clashes in Ferguson tonight.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash

Is this because of the makeshift memorial that was found burning yesterday? …or because of the Police Chief's apology earlier today? …or is it random?

Does anyone know? How'd this all start?

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Is this because of the makeshift memorial that was found burning yesterday? …or because of the Police Chief's apology earlier today? …or is it random?

Does anyone know? How'd this all start?

It started before the chief apologized. I think the burning memorial set it off and the chief apologized to try to calm it down. They also had some big community meetings, led by facilitators from the Justice Department, earlier in the week and those were tense. Productive, but tense.

[TonyB06]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Is this because of the makeshift memorial that was found burning yesterday? …or because of the Police Chief's apology earlier today? …or is it random?

Does anyone know? How'd this all start?

I wouldn't doubt the "apology," or its timing, had something to do with reactions to the memorial burning.

I'd read reports that some of the Ferguson police, who are wearing armbands in support of Officer Wilson, stood doing nothing while the memorial burned. This ticked off community members, I'd guess.

...more concerned with the reports of breaches of police protocol (non filing of required incident reports) we're learning about in the aftermath of all this.