St. LOUIS, Missouri (WNB) - Black residents are up in arms after a tree honoring Unarmed Gentle Gianttm Michael Brown was found destroyed just hours after being dedicated.
Alleged witness Anfernee Washington claims the tree was brutally bent and broken by an unidentified white police officer for no apparent reason. "He pull up and get out and jus' kick that tree. The tree wadn' doin' nothin' - it had its branches up like "don' shoot! Don' shoot! Damn."
Reports say the tree was earlier identified as being responsible for stealing water from another nearby plant. "The tree was much bigger than this little shrub. The little guy's lucky he wasn't killed," said one investigator.
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association is holding its national conference in St. Louis this summer, and dedicated the tree as a symbol of hating whitey healing.