Michael Brown, a few weeks before his killing: 'Someday the world is going to know my name."
from the WaPo:
ST. LOUIS — When it was her turn at the church lectern that overlooked her stepson’s glossy black coffin, Calvina Brown took a deep, relaxing breath. She was about to tell the story of what Michael Brown said to her in his last days, before a controversial shooting by a police officer ended his life . . .
She said her stepson told her months ago, after she fell ill and was taken to a hospital, that “I’ve been dreaming of death. . . . I’ve been dreaming of bloody sheets.”
Brown paused, looking toward an overflow audience of at least 2,500 at Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church. “He pretty much prophesized his own death and didn’t know it.” The sheet he dreamed of, she said, is what eventually covered him after his body lay outside in Ferguson, Mo., for hours after he was shot.
from ABC:
___ Cal Brown, who is married to Michael's father, referred to her stepson as "Mike Mike." She said that they had been having conversations about God this summer and when she was in the hospital a month ago, he told Cal Brown that he was afraid she would "not make it."
"Mike Mike told me, 'I didn’t think you were going to make it.' And I said why and he said, 'Because I've been dreaming of death, seeing pictures of death, seeing pictures of bloody sheets hanging on clotheslines,'" Cal Brown told the church filled with mourners. "That touched me. That’s what it was like when he was laying there on the street (after being shot). He prophesized his own death."
Cal Brown also said that on the day of his high school graduation earlier this summer, Michael Brown had told his father and stepmother that he wanted the world to know who he was.
"We took him out to lunch after graduation and he was talking about God," she said. "And he said, 'someday the world is going to know my name.'"
“He just wanted so much,” she said. “God chose differently. His death is not in vain. He’s not a lost soul.”
Michael Brown Sr. and Cal Brown, Michael Brown's stepmother
Robert Cohen, rcohen@post-dispatch.com
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