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They probably figure they will face tons of retribution from the THUGLIFE crew if they tear it down.

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I know how to motivate property owners, isn't that hard. Coming in with a defeatist attitude certainly isn't how it's done.

Please...in the name of decency..take down that shrine. The killer's family is free to put shrines up in their own homes. The police should not have to look at it. They are walking preschool children past a memorial for a drug dealer/ murderer. This is sickening. Your officer gave his life. Enforce the law that it is private property and remove those candles which are an obstruction on city property. We owe this young officer that much.

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There are t-shirts attached to the building, nothing really you can do about those without "trespassing" but the bottles and candles are on a public sidewalk. Maybe they'll get knocked over and/or stolen.

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LMAO you think they care, building owners down on Grant & Orient do nothing about peeps selling drugs out of the lobby. Why would they care about this.

Someone needs to contact the building owner about tearing that shit down.

can we please stop honoring this P.O.S.'s wishes?

Gunman Fatally Shoots NJ Cop After Announcing, "I'm Going To Be Famous"

This scumbag's memorial is on private property. In the picture, in the article, above the memorial there is a sign that says ?PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESSPASSING NO GATHERING ? J.C.P.D? The owner of this property should have this trash removed.

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Thought the same thing. The quote of being famous - what sort of famous? TV famous or gang famous?

I would gamble that none of us on JClist have the ability to understand the sordid life the killer lived nor the lives of his family. This clearly has a significant read on a majority of people's moral compass (as it should), but like it or not there are plenty of people where this doesn't even register.

I suspect Ms. Campbell has not had many rational moments in a long, long time. She's as much of a beast as her spawn was.

Yes, but she's flat out lying.

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I wouldn't expect a mother who just lost her son to be rational during this time..

There is eyewitness proof of the shooting. How can the mother refute that???? She should hang herself for raising someone so evil, or have the decency to pull down the shrine. It's awful.

I don't even know how to react to reading about this and seeing the pictures... I'm in conflicting states of disbelief and belief, at the same time.

"A woman saying she is Campbell's mother also paid a visit to the memorial this morning. Identifying herself only as Mrs. Campbell, she said she doesn't believe her son is responsible for Santiago's death.

"He didn't do it," she said. "That's not Lawrence."


Gee, what went wrong for poor Lawrence with that kind of parenting?

So what gang is this?

Way to go Jersey City! Making us look great to the nation!

In Jersey City, a sidewalk memorial honors a cop killer

As Jersey City mourns a police officer, others grieve for a cop killer.

On Orient Avenue, just around the block from Lucky #3 Mini-Mart on Martin Luther King Drive, sits a memorial to Lawrence Campbell, the man who fatally shot Officer Melvin Santiago early Sunday morning.

About two dozen candles and an assortment of empty liquor bottles ? including two bottles of Petr?n tequila ? sit on the sidewalk. Above them, two white t-shirts fixed to the red brick wall feature messages to Campbell scrawled with black markers.

"Thug In Peace."

"Live Life My Bro."

"SEE U ON THE OTHER SIDE. LUV - DRAMA."

Campbell shot and killed city Santiago early Sunday morning after Santiago responded to the Walgreens store at Communipaw Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard on a report of an armed robbery. Officers on the scene returned fire, killing Campbell.

There's a similar memorial honoring Santiago outside of the Walgreens.

News of the fatal shootings stunned Barbara Jones, of Bayview Avenue. Jones approached Campbell's memorial late Monday morning to add a note to the t-shirts that are filling up with messages of love for the man accused of fatally shooting a police officer in the line duty.

Her message: "RIP, Bro ? Jones fam."

"He was a good man," Jones said. "He looked out for everybody on the block."

Jones said she couldn't reconcile the Campbell she knew with the Campbell who city officials say lay in wait for police to arrive at the Walgreens yesterday before opening fire on them.

"I don't know nothing of that," she said. "I don't see him like that."

A woman saying she is Campbell's mother also paid a visit to the memorial this morning. Identifying herself only as Mrs. Campbell, she said she doesn't believe her son is responsible for Santiago's death.

"He didn't do it," she said. "That's not Lawrence."

Gesturing to the memorial, she added, "This is Lawrence right here."

The sidewalk shrine is being blasted by top Jersey City officials and the heads of the city's two police unions, Officer Carmine Disbrow and Sgt. Robert Kearns. In a statement released by the unions' PR firm, Disbrow and Kearns note that witnesses say Campbell wanted to gain notoriety from the shooting.

"What kind of society do we live in where memorializing a violent murderer is acceptable?" the statement reads. "Our hope in the coming days is that all attention will be directed towards the bravery of our lost brother, Patrolman Melvin Santiago."

Public Safety Director James Shea is equally aghast.

"It is sad and disgusting to put up a memorial for a cowardly killer who ambushes a police officer and terrorizes a neighborhood," Shea said in a statement issued by the city spokeswoman, "but in no way do the few people who put a memorial up for a killer represent the larger Jersey City community that admires the work of the Jersey City Police Department."

Campbell's mother thinks the Orient Avenue memorial is just the beginning.

"You're going to see a whole lot of this," she said.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... _honors_a_cop_killer.html