Ferguson protester featured in iconic photo dies

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Ferguson protester featured in iconic photo dies

 Susan Miller  , USA TODAY Published 12:38 p.m. ET May 6, 2017 | Updated 5 hours ago



He is a compelling presence in an American flag T-shirt, hair flying as smoke and flames race behind him on an electric summer night.

One hand grasps a small bag of chips, the other a tear gas canister, poised for flight.

The powerful image, taken four days after a white police officer fatally shot unarmed black teen Michael Brown, captured the flash point that was Ferguson., Mo., in August 2014.

Now, the man featured in the photo, which was part of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Pulitzer Prize-winning photo coverage of the Ferguson protests, has died.

The St. Louis County medical examiner’s office says Edward Crawford Jr.’s death on Thursday was reported as a suspected suicide.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/05/06/ferguson-protester-featured-iconic-photo-dies/101365960/

[skeeter]

What kind of person finds a picture of a rioter with chips and a tear gas canister 'compelling'.

[Joe Wooten]

What kind of person finds a picture of a rioter with chips and a tear gas canister 'compelling'.

The same kind of person who writes that the thug Michael Brown was an "unarmed teen".

[Mom MD]

The same kind of person who writes that the thug Michael Brown was an "unarmed teen".

Or the same ones who think out of control rioting mayhem and arson constitute "largely peaceful protests"

[Cripplecreek]

As a photographer I would love to have gotten that pic.

[Wingnut]

What brand of chips was he grasping?

[corbe]

                 According to the Article

[Wingnut]

                 According to the Article

Lay's. Too funny!