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http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2015-08-13/business-sign-causes-stir.html
Business' sign causes a stir
FARMER CITY — A local business owner with a penchant for controversy set his sights on Ferguson, Mo., this week.
"Congrats Michael Brown one year with no criminal behavior," the sign outside Schmidt's Welding and Machine Shop in Farmer City read Tuesday and early Wednesday, days after the one-year anniversary of a Ferguson police officer shooting and killing unarmed black teenager Michael Brown.
Phil Schmidt, who owns the sign and the business, was unapologetic, saying the message was similar to others he's put up over the years outside his shop at 824 E. High Street.
"It is what it is — all these people in Ferguson going crazy over a guy that broke the law three times that day, tried to ? a cop, tried to get his gun, it's crazy," Schmidt said Wednesday morning when contacted by The News-Gazette.
He added: "What they're doing to cops makes me sick."
City officials said they have no recourse to remove the sign, which Police Chief Andrew Denno said had been changed by 2 p.m. Wednesday, when he drove by and saw a message skewering BP oil spills and the government.
"That is absolutely sad," Farmer City Mayor Mike Jenkins said, noting he hadn't been made aware of the sign until Wednesday.
"When you do something like that, unfortunately it paints a picture of our entire community," he said. "There's no reason for that."
Schmidt said the country has lost a "moral compass," and the sign is his attempt to speak frankly on matters.
"I'm not going to dance around somebody because I might hurt somebody's feelings," he said. "Everybody knows the way I feel about these things."
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White trolling
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There was quite a few people who liked to downplay racism before Obama took office (no significance to that event but using it as a reference to the timing) but check this ? out.... Every day, this racist cac's are showin' their ass.
America is tryin' is up there for the most racist country on the earth, if it's not there already.
And you might as well say it's supported and perpetrated by the American government. Because they don't do ? about it - relatively speaking. -
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They listed his address, all I can hope for is that someone sees that article and goes to start some ? at his punk-ass establishment.
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Crackers just being crackers...
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Cacs gon cac
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"tried to ? a cop, tried to get his gun" A whole year later and people still believe this ? ! Just shows you people would rather someone else think for them rather than using their own common got damn sense
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all original wrote: »"tried to ? a cop, tried to get his gun" A whole year later and people still believe this ? ! Just shows you people would rather someone else think for them rather than using their own common got damn sense
And you can't convince them otherwise either...... -
No one has set fire to his store yet? Surprising....
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No one has set fire to his store yet? Surprising....
U know ? aint about that life.., ? got more heart than ? .
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