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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Oct 25, 2016, 12:35 PM Oct 2016

Why a Detroit grandma’s Halloween display depicts police shootings and terrorist attacks

A child predator.

An elderly man holding a jar of contaminated water from Flint, Mich.

A shooting victim with arms raised, under a sign stating: “MY HANDS WERE UP.”

Effigies representing all of the above and more dot Larethia Haddon’s front yard this year.

The Detroit grandmother is using her penchant for elaborate Halloween decorations to bring attention to things that, she says, actually frighten her.

“This is what people really need to be doing instead of putting [up] scarecrows,” Haddon told The Washington Post. “People need to be more aware of all these things right now. We’ve got to pull ourselves together, start to band together to try to stop some of these things.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-a-detroit-grandma%e2%80%99s-halloween-display-depicts-police-shootings-and-terrorist-attacks/ar-AAjmNuk?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

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Why a Detroit grandma’s Halloween display depicts police shootings and terrorist attacks (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2016 OP
and the whining from the pukes will start in 3. . . . 2. . . . .1 . . . niyad Oct 2016 #1
+1, some of our horrors are real to this minute uponit7771 Oct 2016 #2
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