On Saturday, the Washington Post said the White House would send three officials to Monday’s funeral for Michael Brown, the 18-year-old shot by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson. By contrast, only one official — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel — attended the funeral for Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, the highest ranking officer killed in Afghanistan.
The Post reported:
According to a White House official, Broderick Johnson, who heads the White House’s My Brother’s Keeper Task Force, will attend the service along with Marlon Marshall, a St. Louis native who attended high school with Brown’s mother. Heather Foster, who works with Marshall in the White House Office of Public Engagement, will also be in the pews at Brown’s funeral.
.@WhiteHouse Cabinet Secretary Broderick Johnson will attend Monday's funeral service for Michael Brown along with two other WH officials.
— Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) August 23, 2014
https://twitter.com/Thoreau_H_D/statuses/503322530078543873
Not only was Hagel the only official to attend Greene’s funeral, Obama said nothing for two days.
Others weighed in:
https://twitter.com/Wolfiemann/statuses/503317447790039040
@vj44 @WhiteHouse Is this the SAME AMOUNT (3) that attended General Greene's funeral? Please advisehttps://t.co/aKH2avBPbl
— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) August 23, 2014
After going all in at this funeral, no way the White House can accept anything less than a guilty verdict for the police officer.
— Carl Gustav (@CaptYonah) August 25, 2014
A very good point…
@vj44 @toddstarnes @WhiteHouse it is ridiculous that Obama could not attend the general's funeral. Plain disrespect to our armed services.
— David Wingate (@wingate_david) August 23, 2014
@vj44 @toddstarnes @WhiteHouse that's okay valerie we all know you're the real president he's just a little puppet on a string.
— David Wingate (@wingate_david) August 23, 2014
Interesting wording, considering that last December, retired Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told this writer that Jarrett “pulls all the strings.”