ST. LOUIS, MO, AUGUST 26 (RIA Novosti) – Residents should boycott stores to force political change in the city, following the killing of an unarmed African-American teenager, supporter Zakiyyah Mahasin told RIA Novosti after the funeral service.
“We need to do some boycotting. Everybody needs to boycott ... They’re the Brown Days, after Michael Brown. Don’t get no gas; don’t buy no food; don’t spend nothing,” Mahasin said on Monday.
“The corporations have brought in the politicians, who have corrupted the whole justice system. So we try to cut the head off. Let them know that if they want our dollars and support then we have to start having equality for everybody,” the campaigner added.
Thousands of mourners attended the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church on Monday for a funeral service for Michael Brown shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson as he walked with a friend on the afternoon of August 9.
Following the killing, Ferguson, a downtrodden suburb of St Louis of some 21,000 residents, has been riven by often-violent protests since Michael Brown was shot, killed and left uncovered, bleeding on the tarmac in view of increasingly-upset friends and relatives.
The grand jury is hearing evidence about Brown’s shooting and is expected to decide whether to charge lawman Darren Wilson by mid-October. The inquiry hinges on whether Wilson, 28, fired in self-defense.
