While the most of the community expresses grief and outrage over the massacre of four Lakewood Police officers as they sat drinking coffee Sunday morning, the niece of the man accused of the crime is building a memorial to him.

Denise Hinton was seen by KOMO 4’s Joel Moreno today planting a cross near the intersection in the Rainier Valley where a Seattle police officer killed Maurice Clemmons early Tuesday.

Her dad is Rickey Hinton, Clemmons half-brother, who is now charged with aiding and abetting.

Hinton told Joel that everybody deserves to have a shrine set up and her uncle is no different. She says if people come and tear it down, it will be one more insult her family is forced to endure. She says her dad is innocent and did nothing more than behave like any brother would.

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