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To Lizz Brown,
What does it take in St. Louis to get the black community involved. I attended Lamont Daugherty's wake yesterday and was devastated to see the the horror of what his killers did to him. There is a saying that "What we fail to learn, we are doomed to repeat." History ... black youths today know so little about their history and appear to be repeating it. Things that once took place such as open lynchings, (held as an event), no longer occur. However, there are laws now that allow murdering of the mine and the body.
If we allowed what happened to Lamont to go unchallenged, whose child will be next. This will continue. History and time has proven that. Each and every year we are faced with murders of our children at the hands of authority figures. Even if indeed the murder was committed by the cellmate, then tell me, WHY... if it is true that both men where classified as high alpha males, meaning that had assaultive and aggressive behaviors ... then tell me again, WHY, where they put in a cell together. It's murder no matter how you look at it and Potosi should be held accountable for this young man's death, along with state government. What has happened here is equivilant to putting two pit bulls in a ring and letting them fight to their death (There were probably bets made and money paid). This is inhumane and the persons responsible should not only lose their jobs, but should be convicted as criminals, because they are. Until we all grasp the fact that every life is worthwhile and every person has the right to be threated with dignity, we are all falling short of God's grace. God created us, not man. I pray for the support of the black community on this one. I feel that money should be raised for legal representation to get this matter thoroughly investigated.