Mr. Taft called her brave and courageous for, in the midst of her grief, begging rioters to stop. The governor's wife, Hope, wiped her eyes. Mr. King, recalling the assassination of his father, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., when he was only 10, told Mr. Thomas' mother she'll never get over the pain. If his father had been hit by a bus, he said, it wouldn't have brought the same reaction. But it's not a great city today.
Mourners weep at the funeral.
Mr. Luken hadn't planned to speak. But called to the podium, he apologized again to Mrs. Leisure and her family. The crowd came to its feet. I pledge to you the city will be better one day. The baby's mother, Monique Wilcox, held the boy throughout his father's funeral.