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发信人: hutuxian (糊涂仙), 信区: Military
标 题: 布朗母亲也跳出来了：This could be your child'
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Nov 26 16:10:00 2014, 美东)
很年轻啊， 儿子居然18岁了
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/justice/ferguson-grand-jury-react
Michael Brown's mother: 'This could be your child'
By Dana Ford and Josh Levs, CNN
updated 3:23 PM EST, Wed November 26, 2014
Watch this video
Michael Brown's parents speak to CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: "No respect, no sympathy," Lesley McSpadden says of grand jury decision
NEW: She defends her husband's angry reaction to the ruling
Legal analysts debate whether there should have been a special prosecutor
Michael Brown Sr. says the grand jury's decision showed "this was a racist
state"
Watch CNN's interview with Michael Brown's parents at 8 p.m. ET on "Anderson
Cooper 360."
(CNN) -- Michael Brown's mother says hearing that a grand jury had decided
not to indict the officer who killed her son felt like getting shot.
"We heard this and it was just like, like I had been shot. Like you shoot me
now -- just no respect, no sympathy, nothing," Lesley McSpadden told CNN's
Sunny Hostin on Wednesday. "This could be your child. This could be anybody'
s child."
A New York Times video captured the moments immediately after McSpadden
heard about the decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the white officer who
killed her son, Michael Brown, a black teenager. She stood with protesters
outside the Ferguson police department, sobbing uncontrollably.
McSpadden's husband, her son's stepfather, wrapped her in his arms before
turning to the crowd, screaming: "Burn this bitch down."
"He just spoke out of anger. It's one thing to speak and it's a different
thing to act. He did not act. He just spoke out of anger," McSpadden said
about her husband, Louis Head.
44 arrests overnight in Ferguson Police spray tear gas on protesters Raw
scenes from protests nationwide
"When you're that hurt and the system has did you this wrong, you may say
some things as well. We've all spoke out of anger before," she told CNN.
'They crucified his character'
Brown's father said the grand jury's decision changed his view of America.
"I was upset. I didn't understand," Michael Brown Sr. said in a conversation
with the Rev. Al Sharpton on Tuesday on MSNBC. "It just let me know that
where we live is not what we thought, or what I thought. It's what people
have been saying all the time, for a nice little minute: that this was a
racist state."
Sharpton accused Prosecutor Robert McCulloch of trying to disparage Michael
Brown Jr. He asked Michael Brown Sr. how he felt about the prosecutor
attacking "the character of the victim."
"They crucified his character," Brown said.
In the interview, Brown did not cite any specific comments McCulloch had
made.
"For people that don't even know my son, they probably wish they did," he
said, adding that he feels "empty" from the experience. "I'm just crushed."
In a news conference Monday night announcing the grand jury's decision,
McCulloch extended his "deepest sympathies" to the Brown family and referred
to the "tragic death."
He said the grand jury's decision was based on evidence and facts, some of
which contradicted people who said they witnessed Officer Darren Wilson
shooting Michael Brown Jr.
McCulloch had long promised a fair and complete presentation.
"We will be presenting absolutely everything to this grand jury," he told a
radio program in August. "Every statement that a witness made, every witness
, every photograph, every piece of physical evidence. Absolutely nothing
will be left out."
Transcript of prosecutor's news conference
Documents released by the prosecutor's office show that witnesses gave
differing accounts.
Should a special prosecutor have been appointed?
Experts disagree over whether McCulloch should have stepped aside and let a
special prosecutor handle the case.
His father, a police officer, was killed on the job by an African-American
man in 1964, when McCulloch was 12.
HLN legal analyst Joey Jackson said Wednesday that while there can be
discussions about the possibility of bias as a result of his father's death,
there is a more fundamental reason he should not have taken the case: the
close relationship prosecutors often have with their local police.
"You rely upon the police every day" as a prosecutor, Jackson said on CNN's
"New Day."
"You give them your support, your resources. They give those resources back
to you."
CNN legal analyst Paul Callan disagreed with the reasoning. A prosecutor
should not be disqualified "because he's worked with the cops closely in the
past. I would say, 'You know something? He's a guy with integrity, I'll
trust his investigation.'"
"I think the grand jury reached the right result on the facts of this case,"
Callan said. Still, "you have to have public confidence in the result." If
the public did not have faith in McCulloch because of his father's killing,
then "maybe because of the level of public distrust, we should have had a
special prosecutor," Callan said.
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