ST. LOUIS, MO, AUGUST 26 (RIA Novosti) – The civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton railed against police brutality and received rapturous applause from a crowd of people at the funeral of African-American Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by a police officer in a racially divided suburb of Missouri.
“Michael's gone on to get his rest now. We are required to get change now in this country," he told the crowd on Monday.
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.
