Michael Brown’s Family Can’t Be Troubled To Buy Him A Headstone
Robert Gehl
November 30, 2015
Because the family is more interested in making money off his death, Michael Brown still lies in a cemetery without a headstone.
A single marker with orange spraypaint of “MB” at St. Peter’s Cemetery is the only testament to the man who has become the rallying cry for protests nationwide, the AP is reporting.
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The final resting place of the Black Lives Matter movement icon still doesn’t have a headstone. Instead, the grave at St. Peter’s Cemetery about four miles from where Brown died is marked only by the letters “MB” spray-painted in orange on a concrete footing for a would-be grave marker.
Other matters have interfered in getting the permanent headstone in place, said Lyah LeFlore, vice president of the Michael O.D. Brown “We Love Our Sons & Daughters” Foundation that Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, helped launch in her late son’s memory. Among the distractions: The unfolding wrongful-death lawsuit that McSpadden and Brown’s father filed against Ferguson, the St. Louis suburb’s former police chief and Darren Wilson, the officer who shot and killed Brown during an August 2014 confrontation.
The cost presumably isn’t an issue: In the weeks after Brown’s death, hundreds of thousands of dollars were raised through fundraising websites to defray the family’s funeral, burial, travel and living expenses.
“Everybody has to do things kind of at their own pace,” LeFlore said of efforts to mark Brown’s grave. McSpadden “just wants something beautiful, poetic and wonderful in her son’s memory. It has just taken time.”
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