Service celebrates Kimbro
Warren Kimbro’s coffin was covered by an American flag. Wafts of hot, steamy air enveloped the sanctuary room where the coffin lay, in the Beulah Heights First Pentecostal Church on Orchard Street. A video screen showcased pictures — fragments of his life as a father, an activist, a Black Panther.
“Praise him!” a woman wailed, her hands in the air. “Praise him!”
The crowd of 500 — mostly black — echoed the righteous screech. Their voices, a hymn of homage.
At Kimbro’s funeral service Monday morning, the attending men, women and children — many clad in black, some...
it doesn't say hazard of tears?
Not everyone mourns Kimbro's exit:
the family of Alex Rackley, for example...
I guess Alex Rackley should be proud he was tortured and killed by such an upstanding person as the honorable Mr. Kimbro.
the lionization of a self-confessed torturer and murderer make some of us nauseous.
any reporter think to talk to the relatives of the fellow who was tortured and murdered??
guess not, eh?
Less than five years for torturing and killing a man. An American flag on his coffin. Celebrations of his life in the Yale Daily News.
This is absurd.
"Hazard of Tears" – A bit melodramatic? (not to mention borderline unreadable: laid not laid to rest, etc.)
Also, what is a 'military salute squad'? Perhaps the term you were looking for was 'Honor Guard'?