Parents aren't suppose to bury their children.

Lesley McSpadden reacts during the funeral services for her son Michael Brown at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis, Missouri, August 25, 2014. Family, politicians and activists gathered for the funeral on Monday following weeks of unrest with at times violent protests spawning headlines around the world focusing attention on racial issues in the United States.
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August 25, 2014
By Edward McCallister and Nick Carey

Brown's body (click here) lay at the Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in a black and gold casket, topped with the St. Louis Cardinals baseball cap he was wearing when he was killed on Aug. 9 in nearby Ferguson by a white police officer.

Thousands of people jammed inside the modern red-brick church and gathered outside on Dr. Martin Luther King Drive in St. Louis for the service, a markedly different scene from the violent protests that rocked the St. Louis suburb after the shooting of the unarmed 18-year-old....