10 Things You Didn’t Know About Michael Brown, According To Family And Friends
He Grappled with His Faith
While he once told his stepmom, Calvina, that he didn’t believe in God, during a phone call with his father, Michael shared a dream weeks before his death that would go on to change his way of viewing religion, the Bible, and “life’s mysteries” as The New York Times put it:
It was 1 a.m. and Michael Brown Jr. called his father, his voice trembling. He had seen something overpowering. In the thick gray clouds that lingered from a passing storm this past June, he made out an angel. And he saw Satan chasing the angel and the angel running into the face of God. Mr. Brown was a prankster, so his father and stepmother chuckled at first.
“No, no, Dad! No!” the elder Mr. Brown remembered his son protesting. “I’m serious.”
And the black teenager from this suburb of St. Louis, who had just graduated from high school, sent his father and stepmother a picture of the sky from his cellphone. “Now I believe,” he told them.
