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13. Hateful people suck. eom

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Michael Brown's memorial tree 'cut down' after one night in Ferguson [View all] n2doc Apr 2015 OP

What vile creatures lurk in the sewers of mankind! What a dispicable act! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2015 #1

Truer words. Dark n Stormy Knight Apr 2015 #136

Time to plant another one and set up a camera. nt Quackers Apr 2015 #2

Great minds!!! nt MADem Apr 2015 #4

Lol Quackers Apr 2015 #5

I would want to witness that in person and undetected, undetected at first anyway. nt Snotcicles Apr 2015 #34

Plus they should plant an even bigger tree as a giant middle finger towards cstanleytech Apr 2015 #36

Plant 100 of them Evergreen Emerald Apr 2015 #98

Right. Great idea. JDPriestly Apr 2015 #50

+1 Hoyt Apr 2015 #68

Plant another one, quietly, and quietly stash surveillance cameras in nearby houses/parked cars and MADem Apr 2015 #3

I say no rtracey Apr 2015 #96

I disagree. If you let them define your memorial, they win. MADem Apr 2015 #99

or rtracey Apr 2015 #105

If that's the case, you also get the symbolism of the kid paying for, and planting, another tree MADem Apr 2015 #108

that wasn't the Mike Brown tree notadmblnd Apr 2015 #117

Link Roy Rolling Apr 2015 #6

It does not, but here is another link n2doc Apr 2015 #9

Racists are emotionally damaged children who stopped maturing when they were pre-teens. No mentally GoneFishin Apr 2015 #7

What evidence is there phil89 Apr 2015 #12

You are correct. As a factual matter I do not know. GoneFishin Apr 2015 #14

Evidently no one knows who did it or why. AlbertCat Apr 2015 #22

Someone hates these cans! hueymahl Apr 2015 #33

LOL Dragonfli Apr 2015 #81

Ha!!! wendylaroux Apr 2015 #91

So what, do you think the people that did this- they're just tree haters? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #31

Didn't you ever hear of vandalism? My town virgogal Apr 2015 #39

Better question. Why stick you head in the sand and ignore the recent past? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #42

If the vandalism was by bigots I apologize but virgogal Apr 2015 #45

Wait. You are serious? Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2015 #77

Yes,I was serious. I saw nothing in the original virgogal Apr 2015 #90

Head, sand, stuck notadmblnd Apr 2015 #110

With this having something to steal RegexReader Apr 2015 #131

Cameras don't appear to be stopping cops from shooting or beating people to death notadmblnd Apr 2015 #132

Pretty lame vandals wendylaroux Apr 2015 #92

Absolutely possible they did it less for racist reasons and more to get a rise out of folks like you Oktober Apr 2015 #106

I think you're grasping at air. notadmblnd Apr 2015 #109

Well... Oktober Apr 2015 #111

You're suggesting a consipracy? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #112

Not at all... Oktober Apr 2015 #113

so you are sayng that there are people out there that just want to make notadmblnd Apr 2015 #114

Amusement... Oktober Apr 2015 #115

amusement? How? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #116

I don't know how to say this any simpler.... Oktober Apr 2015 #118

Who is group A and who is group B. notadmblnd Apr 2015 #119

Group A is led by a man named Bob... Oktober Apr 2015 #120

You responded to my post originally so who is trolling who? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #121

I told you... Oktober Apr 2015 #122

and I asked you what specifically could the possible reason outside of bigotry be? notadmblnd Apr 2015 #125

No one is claiming certainty... Oktober Apr 2015 #127

that's because you can't give me a REASONABLE alternate reason that can make me believe that notadmblnd Apr 2015 #128

You are obviously very emotionally attached to your belief that it must be racism... Oktober Apr 2015 #129

Now you want to make it personal. notadmblnd Apr 2015 #130

I calls em like I sees em... Oktober Apr 2015 #133

Might want to get your eyes checked notadmblnd Apr 2015 #134

No doubt many people get persnickety merely from reading benign speculation on a message board. LanternWaste Apr 2015 #37

would love to hear your theory.. frylock Apr 2015 #38

the evidence heaven05 Apr 2015 #47

Racists did it. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #54

Well, ya know, there's this little thing called Occam's Razor... Erich Bloodaxe BSN Apr 2015 #56

^^^THIS^^^ Tom Ripley Apr 2015 #88

that's patently not true. are you at all familiar with the literature on racism? La Lioness Priyanka Apr 2015 #51

Thanks. I am sure there is an enormous body of information of which I am unaware. But in this GoneFishin Apr 2015 #89

Or maybe it was actual pre-teens. n/t lumberjack_jeff Apr 2015 #76

Just horrible. hrmjustin Apr 2015 #8

I bet the police are looking really hard to find the perp rurallib Apr 2015 #10

When they find the perp, I wonder Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #16

! rurallib Apr 2015 #18

+1 uponit7771 Apr 2015 #41

Ouch. nt F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #72

Yes really hard. So they can beat him to within an inch of his life. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #57

One day, the good will win and the evil will be eaten. nt NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #11

It won't just happen, it has to be fought for, ideally through the electoral process. The civil still_one Apr 2015 #24

It probably does, it probably has to become much much worse. NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #25

I agree with you. still_one Apr 2015 #26

quite a few heaven05 Apr 2015 #49

People died for their rights.. haikugal Apr 2015 #60

You have so much more faith than I do AuntPatsy Apr 2015 #101

Hateful people suck. eom Blanks Apr 2015 #13

With video cameras everywhere, it's a shame this wasn't caught on video. Sucks! C Moon Apr 2015 #15

The police say they have no idea. I don't believe a word. The Ferguson rhett o rick Apr 2015 #17

Oh. lighten up on them, Rick. They're probly right Jackpine Radical Apr 2015 #19

I'm betting there were high-fives at the local cop bar. nm rhett o rick Apr 2015 #20

Me too. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #58

The klan moves in predictable ways. n/t SpankMe Apr 2015 #21

Very, very true! haikugal Apr 2015 #63

Racism, pure and simple still_one Apr 2015 #23

Leave the damaged tree as a memorial - it clearly shows the situation in this community. jwirr Apr 2015 #27

Depending on the type of tree, it may come back as a bush. -none Apr 2015 #35

It's braches looked like someone with their hands up underpants Apr 2015 #28

It must have charged at them n/t n2doc Apr 2015 #30

+1 uponit7771 Apr 2015 #43

Looking like a demon. A demon tree. bravenak Apr 2015 #52

"It was reaching for its trunk, I tells ya!!" bullwinkle428 Apr 2015 #97

Investigators should treat this for what it is . . . . A HATE CRIME! citizen blues Apr 2015 #29

Post-racial Murrka... truebrit71 Apr 2015 #32

Black people aren't allowed to have anything in this country... MrScorpio Apr 2015 #40

That moves me deeply this morning. JimDandy Apr 2015 #65

The cops have 'no idea'....right. blackspade Apr 2015 #44

"Residents of the city were shocked." And no sarcasm tag. n/t jtuck004 Apr 2015 #46

Will the police find out? Do you think? JDPriestly Apr 2015 #48

Just look at the depth of this hate. The Jungle 1 Apr 2015 #53

Hateful fuckers! haikugal Apr 2015 #55

The condition of this nation is dire. Enthusiast Apr 2015 #59

Indeed, my friend... haikugal Apr 2015 #61

Disgusting excuse for human beings. These are neanderthals. Elmer S. E. Dump Apr 2015 #62

Neanderthals had more humanity. haikugal Apr 2015 #66

I think they did. Elmer S. E. Dump Apr 2015 #67

I bet off duty cops were the vandals workinclasszero Apr 2015 #64

Why? Not enough hate in the world? mountain grammy Apr 2015 #69

......... TRoN33 Apr 2015 #70

I would like to be a part of the Michael Brown Memorial Forest. Scruffy Rumbler Apr 2015 #71

tree must have FlatBaroque Apr 2015 #73

K&R DeSwiss Apr 2015 #74

Shows you what 'we' value, doesn't it? FiveGoodMen Apr 2015 #75

That applies especially to Golden Calves... Art_from_Ark Apr 2015 #83

They can't assault him anymore...... DeSwiss Apr 2015 #85

And somewhere in New York, there was a battered wife with a restraining order.... Hassin Bin Sober Apr 2015 #78

And even that's a 50-50 proposition calling them for domestic violence cases. DeSwiss Apr 2015 #86

I'm sure every state today has one of their own once again being ignored. AuntPatsy Apr 2015 #102

They damn sure protected that mammon idol workinclasszero Apr 2015 #79

Indeed! DeSwiss Apr 2015 #87

Sick heartless fuckheads!! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2015 #80

What kind of piece of shit would do such a thing? Un-fuckin-believable. InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2015 #82

Hateful Trajano Apr 2015 #84

I say we send undercover people into the usual places and have them brag that they did it,.... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2015 #93

Sick davidpdx Apr 2015 #94

Replant the tree and plant cameras nearby. romanic Apr 2015 #95

Michael Brown Was Cut Down Too DallasNE Apr 2015 #100

Next person will be more subtle and put plant killer in the soil... Oktober Apr 2015 #104

One step at a time DallasNE Apr 2015 #123

Probably not worth the effort and cost for a symbol... Oktober Apr 2015 #124

How awful. As if the community hasn't grieved enough. myrna minx Apr 2015 #103

The older I get awoke_in_2003 Apr 2015 #107

Has anyone started a gofundme on this yet? Hugin Apr 2015 #126

What an awful thing to do. City Lights Apr 2015 #135