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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Wed Sep 7, 2016, 03:10 AM Sep 2016

Ferguson Protest Leader Darren Seals Found Dead in Vehicle [View all]

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Source: New York Times

Ferguson Protest Leader Darren Seals Found Dead in Vehicle

By CHRISTOPHER MELESEPT. 6, 2016

Darren Seals

The body of an activist from St. Louis who led protests about the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 was found with a gunshot wound in the charred remains of a vehicle on Tuesday morning, according to the police and news accounts.

The activist, Darren Seals, 29, was found inside the vehicle on Diamond Drive in Riverview in St. Louis County around 1:50 a.m., the St. Louis County Police Department said in a statement. The vehicle had been on fire and he was found after the flames were extinguished.

The police said Mr. Seals had lived at an address on Millburn Drive in St. Louis, about 12 miles from where his body was found. The case is being investigated as a homicide by the department’s Bureau of Crimes Against Persons. The motive for the killing was unknown.

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Mr. Seals led protests with the group Hands Up United, which was organizing a campaign called Polls Ova Police, which sought to use this year’s elections to challenge police policies.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/us/ferguson-protest-leader-darren-seals-found-dead-in-vehicle.html?_r=0

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Ferguson Protest Leader Darren Seals Found Dead in Vehicle [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2016 OP

Sad K & R n/t LittleGirl Sep 2016 #1

Very sad. nt Granny M Sep 2016 #2

Ferguson activist Darren Seals dies at 29 Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #3

Here's the video... ariesgem Sep 2016 #42

You are so thoughtful to share this video. My God. Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #43

You are most certainly welcome. ariesgem Sep 2016 #44

Obviously a Klan hit Abouttime Sep 2016 #45

Well, this sucks lillypaddle Sep 2016 #4

This is damn tragic! montana_hazeleyes Sep 2016 #5

I can only imagine what Alex Jones will have to say about this tragedy GreydeeThos Sep 2016 #6

Jones will ignore this story as it doesn't fit his paranoid right-wing whack job worldview anneboleyn Sep 2016 #36

Well just fuck this. Loki Sep 2016 #7

RIP. Starry Messenger Sep 2016 #8

Grab yer tin foil hats! Odin2005 Sep 2016 #9

My first thought: Like Schwerner, Goodman, and Chaney Grins Sep 2016 #10

IMO, this is another Ferguson area murder by police & their associates. like 2015 green murder Sunlei Sep 2016 #11

The police wouldn't be this sloppy. It was likely a rival of his. Oneironaut Sep 2016 #12

Revenge and a warning. fleabiscuit Sep 2016 #16

Maybe it was the Democrats pintobean Sep 2016 #17

true. The police would have just pulled him over and shot him because he moved a hand. Sunlei Sep 2016 #18

The situation in Ferguson is still going on and Seals was still active. Tempest Sep 2016 #19

No, Ferguson has pretty much died down. pintobean Sep 2016 #21

Keep believing that Tempest Sep 2016 #23

What motives and which PD pintobean Sep 2016 #24

What gives any poster the right to give orders to others? Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #25

You're going for irony, right? pintobean Sep 2016 #26

What gives any poster the right to do anything? Loki Liesmith Sep 2016 #27

I agree. I see that certain other posters don't want to think this death anneboleyn Sep 2016 #37

Think the person who shot Seals 7 times pintobean Sep 2016 #32

No doubt you posted this entry because of your human respect for this young man...... Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #34

I want his killer found and to face justice. pintobean Sep 2016 #39

Killing community activists has been a practise for decades, as many recall. Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #41

You have a clear view of what police departments would do, and how they'd do it? Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #20

And you're not an authority either, unless if you have evidence this is a police conspiracy. Oneironaut Sep 2016 #31

Didn't you just say that it's all "baseless speculation?" No point to guessing anneboleyn Sep 2016 #40

I agree, but there has to be a plausibility line. Oneironaut Sep 2016 #46

Beautiful, smart and brave young man... BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2016 #13

He wasn't just murdered 2naSalit Sep 2016 #14

Auwe, auwe, auwe, what a loss for the world. mahina Sep 2016 #15

Hideous. Assinating the bright lights in the world still won't allow darkness to win. KittyWampus Sep 2016 #22

Yes there is and WHEN CRABS ROAR Sep 2016 #30

Ferguson activist Darren Seals found dead in burning car Judi Lynn Sep 2016 #28

"Granda said he had no knowledge of any such confrontation." pintobean Sep 2016 #29

A hero falls. The struggle continues. Ken Burch Sep 2016 #33

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