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26 Nov, 2014

Today Show interview

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McSpadden and Brown Sr. describe the last 36 hours following the Grand Jury’s decision, Officer Wilson’s interview and the justice system:

My son respected law enforcement, who in their right mind would rush or charge at a police officer that has his gun drawn. It sounds crazy.

Crump: When you have people of color be killed they try to demonize and play on the stereotypes, and they try to put the police officer who killed our children on a pedestal. It’s just not right, and we have to fix this system.

25 Nov, 2014

CBS interview

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Brown, McSpadden and Brown Sr. give their reactions to the grand jury decision, officer Wilson and the violence in Ferguson. McSpadden:

My son doesn’t have a history of violence, one image does not paint a persons entire life or their entire past on how they were. We all do have a past….

Michael Brown's parents on grand jury decision, violence in Ferguson