What Ferguson triggered

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13. Trophy

Leaving Micheal Brown laying in the street for four hours, uncovered, was symbolic if not actual 'trophy-ism'. In cases of lynching it was not uncommon for (white) people to take portions of the victims boby as a trophy of the event. Picture postcards, an ante-Instagram/tube fixture recorded these lynchings so that attendees could show all their friends and family who could not attend. Victims were hung, unhung when they about to expire and then re-hung so as to extend the entertainment. People brought picnic lunches to the lynching and children were encouraged to go to. The 3500 lynching number contains the known lynchings, there may be hundreds more, if not thousands. There is a concept in law enforcement that acknowledges that possibility of suicide by cop, what may have occurred in Furguson might well be described as lynching by cop. Every single unlawful homicide by a cop of an African American should be considered a lynching.