vandals destroy michael brown memorial less than 24 hours after it is dedicated

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I've seen roadside memorials for people who died driving while drunk, and I didn't question whether they deserved to be memorialized. A person can be worth mourning, especially by their family or community, even if they committed a crime.

Exactly. It's just cruel. I put a portion of the blame on the professional agitators who riled up the area for months after the incident, but it still doesn't excuse this.

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The idea that no one that has ever committed a crime (especially one that is not very harmful in the grand scope of things--it's not like the guy was a serial killer) deserves to be memorialized by his friends and family is insane and horrible.

There's a good case for the idea that the family of someone whose actions took away the friends and families of countless others - Lubitz, Tsarnaev, etc. - should have the decency to mourn far away from the victims of their loved ones' murders.

That's not the case here, though.