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Thousands bid farewell to slain US teenager

– Premonitions of death –

Relatives and friends remembered Brown as a “gentle giant” who turned to religion in his last days and had premonitions of his own death.

Brown’s stepmother Cal Brown recalled a conversation she had with him during which he said the world would know his name.

“He just wanted so much,” she said. “God chose differently and I’m at peace about that. His death is not in vain. He’s not a lost soul.”

But Sharpton brought the service back to the fatal act that riveted the United States and reopened old wounds of racial discrimination and distrust, particularly between African Americans and the police. READ: Protests, looting in US city after police shoot unarmed teen.

He recalled the scene after the shooting: “Michael Brown, 18-year-old boy, laid out in the street. Hour and a half before the detective came. Another hour or so before they came and removed his body. Family couldn’t come through the ropes. Dogs sniffing through. What did you do?”

Brown, Sharpton said, would not want to be remembered for the nearly two weeks of protests – some violent – that erupted in Ferguson after his death, but rather “as the one that made America deal with how we are going to police in the United States.”

Absent from the service was Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, who was asked by the family to stay away.

The protests in Ferguson have subsided, but the debate over Brown’s death and what it meant continue to rage.

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“We have to have a conversation, people don’t want to have a conversation about race, and we need this conversation,” said Jane Brandon Brown, ambassador for the Kingdom of God international ministries.

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