Michael Brown Family's Church Burned to the Ground - Arson Investigation by ATF

[kpete]

As chaos engulfed several Ferguson streets Monday, Pastor] Lee tried unsuccessfully to chase away looters and put out fires along West Florissant Avenue. Then his phone rang.

The officer on the other end of the line told him that he needed to get to his church right away. By the time Lee arrived, the cinder-block structure had been gutted by flames. [...]

Although other buildings were burned during the violence that consumed much of Ferguson on Monday, the flames at Flood Christian Church were different. The church building, purchased in March by the 31-year-old Lee, sits well outside the area where things were violent, far from the riots. The glass storefronts on each side remain unscathed.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/29/1348212/-Michael-Brown-Family-s-Church-Burned-to-the-Ground-Arson-Investigation-by-ATF



Ferguson-area church torched; ATF searches for arsonists

FERGUSON, Mo. - The smell of smoke still wafts through the air from the window in the children's area of Flood Christian Church.

This was the safe place. The sanctuary. The hope of a pastor's dream of building a church catering to people who abandoned the concept of church. It's the church that Mike Brown Sr. attends.

Alcohol Tobacco and Firearm investigators said somebody purposely set fire to Flood Christian Church on Monday night at 11:44 p.m.

Burning a church is a federal offense.
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/local/ferguson/2014/11/27/ferguson-area-church-torched-atf-searches-for-arsonists/19569757/


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Anyone wishing to donate funds to rebuild the Flood Christian Church can go to their Go Fund Me site here: Mike Brown Church The Flood
http://www.gofundme.com/huw1h0
Cross-posted from Booman Tribune

[cantbeserious]

1. First Suspects - KKK

eom

[Socal31]

2. Possibly.

Luckily, the odds at least one of the scumbags who did this crime wasn't smart enough to leave the cell-phone (aka tracker) at home.

If a known hate group member was pinging anywhere near that church during a certain time frame, they should think about obtaining representation.

[Hekate]

3. Kick. Hope they get plenty of donations. Is it out on social media?

That said, how utterly utterly sick. What bottom-feeders.

[oldandhappy]

4. Nasty!

Are we going to get another speech about being quiet and moving on? Hard to do when your heart has been ripped out. Can we donate for the rebuilding of this church? Argh.

[kickysnana]

5. kicking n/t

[enough]

6. k&r (nt)

[B Calm]

7. This smells of white supremacist's. .

[msanthrope]

8. Kick. nt

[justiceischeap]

9. Wow, bakery woman needs to share some of her proceeds.

She got, like, 200K almost overnight. The church, not doing so well. $49k of it's $500k goal in three days.

[Oktober]

10. Better to have proper food instead of another tax exempt church...

[justiceischeap]

11. Yes, because baked goods are proper food? nt

[Oktober]

12. Aside from bread being a staple food for humanity since time untold...

The most sugar filled fat cake provides more benefit to a human being than Jesus, Allah or Zeus...

At least it'll keep you alive for a while...

[blackspade]

13. Good thing the police were on hand to set...er... report the fire.