Robert Fuller's family mourns a 'survivor,' demands truth over his hanging death
PALMDALE, Calif. - Three Mylar balloons, tethered near the top of a thin tree, stirred in the breeze outside Palmdale City Hall on Saturday. At the base lay bouquets of flowers wrapped in plastic and more than two dozen votive candles, their flames flickering.
The tree, which stands on the edge of a 2-acre courtyard known as Poncitlan Square, is now a memorial, one an angry, frustrated but mainly heartbroken crowd of nearly 2,000 dedicated to the memory of a 24-year-old black man found hanging from its branches early Wednesday morning.
"This is Robert Fuller Memorial Park from this day forward," Pharaoh Mitchell of the Community Action League shouted into a microphone.
