Nigger Edward Crawford, protester from chance Ferguson photo, dead from self-inflicted gunshot in St. Louis

[Another Obama Turd Flushed]

Surrounded by clouds of tear gas that hung low in the air above
his head, Edward “Skeeda” Crawford sat on the sidewalk and
watched as the Ferguson police traded shouts and threats with
dozens of residents who had gathered in protest on the night of
Aug. 11, 2014.

For three consecutive nights, enraged crowds had gathered to
demand answers about the police shooting of Michael Brown, an
unarmed black 18-year-old whose body had been left in the street
for more than four hours. But this was the first night that
Crawford had joined the protests.

“This is beyond Mike Brown,” Crawford said that evening. “This
is about all of us.”

Two days later, Crawford would become a nationally recognized
symbol of the unrest in Ferguson when, dressed in an American
flag tank top and clutching a bag of potato chips, he picked up
a tear-gas canister and tossed it back toward riot gear-clad
officers. The scene was captured by the lens of St. Louis Post-
Dispatch photographer Robert Cohen and was part of the package
that earned the paper a Pulitzer Prize for their photography of
the unrest.

Crawford Jr., 27, died Thursday night after what police say was
a self-inflicted gunshot wound, leaving behind four children.

According to police, Crawford was riding in the backseat of a
vehicle that evening when he began telling the two other
occupants that he was depressed.

“The victim began expressing he was distraught over personal
matters to the witnesses,” Leah Freeman, a spokeswoman for the
St. Louis Metropolitan Police, said in a statement. “The
witnesses heard the victim rummaging in the backseat, then heard
a gunshot and observed the victim had sustained a gunshot wound
to the head.”

Crawford’s father, Edward Sr., told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
that he believes his son accidentally shot himself.

News of Crawford’s death quickly rippled across activists
circles.

Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a state senator who was a regular at the
Ferguson protests, said she was in disbelief when she saw on
Facebook on Friday morning that Crawford was dead.

Throw him in the river and let the catfish eat him.

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