An officer on the street let the dog he was controlling urinate on the memorial site.
The day brought other indignities for Brown's family, and the community. Missouri state Rep. Sharon Pace, whose district includes the neighborhood where the shooting occurred, told me she went to the scene that afternoon to comfort the parents, who were blocked by police from approaching their son's body. Pace purchased some tea lights for the family, and around 7 p.m. she joined Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, and others as they placed the candles and sprinkled flowers on the ground where Brown had died. "They spelled out his initials with rose petals over the bloodstains," Pace recalled.
By then, police had prohibited all vehicles from entering Canfield Drive except for their own. Soon the candles and flowers had been smashed, after police drove over them.
Adding insult to injury.
Acting with complete disregard of the social havoc they were creating by acting as if they were above the law and dismissive of the neighborhoods pain to the point that memorials were vandalized in order to infuriate the community.
Bigots.
Reprehensible actions that dehumanize citizens under their watch and CAUSE social unrest.