President Obama ruffled British feathers last year when no White House officials attended the funeral services of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Obama himself also failed to make an appearance.
The administration, though, according to Fox News, sent three high-end officials to the funeral of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager killed by a police officer in St. Louis, whom The New York Times described as "no angel."
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