Michael Brown's parents react to Darren Wilson interview: 'It sounds crazy'

[damnedifIknow]

The grief-stricken mother of Michael Brown says police officer Darren Wilson's first interview following a grand jury's decision not to indict him in her teenage son's shooting death "added insult to injury."

Lesley McSpadden, Brown's mother, called the Wilson's interview "disrespectful" on NBC's "Today" show Wednesday, a day after the officer's interview with ABC News aired.

"I don't believe a word of it," McSpadden said on "CBS This Morning."

Wilson's account of the events that led to Brown's killing on Aug. 9 "sounds crazy," Michael Brown Sr. said on "Today."

*"For one, my son, he respected law enforcement," Brown Sr. said. "Two, who in their right mind would rush or charge at a police officer that has his gun drawn? It sounds crazy."

"I know my son far too well to know he wouldn't ever do anything like that," McSpadden said on CBS. "He wouldn't do anything to provoke anyone to do anything to him, and he wouldn't do anything to anybody."

She said she believes Wilson was intent on violence.

"He didn't do what he had to do, he did what he wanted to do," McSpadden said."I don't think he wanted to kill my son, but he wanted to kill someone."

http://news.yahoo.com/michael-brown-parents-react-to-darren-wilson-interview-135728733.html

[grahamhgreen]

1. Why didn't Wilson file an incident report???

[BrotherIvan]

4. Where's Wilson's drug test???

Because his version of events can only be possible if Mike Brown were on some serious drugs like the Zombie guy. But his drug test was released and there was nothing in it that could explain the story. Wilson, was he tested?

[grahamhgreen]

9. Good point.

[Rex]

5. Why did the DA lie and say Wilson never stood over Browns body?

Lots and lots of lying going on.

[grahamhgreen]

10. DO you have a link to the statement - that would make a powerful pic of the day....

[Rex]

11. It is in another thread I will post it here when I find it.

[Rex]

13. Here ya go, it was in a thread posted by WillyT

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025870713

[UglyGreed]

2. It does sound crazy

and I don't believe it either, I agree with her 100%

[Rex]

3. "He didn't do what he had to do, he did what he wanted to do."

Exactly, he had two non-lethal options that would have stopped Brown in his tracks and the training to use both.

[damnedifIknow]

6. Yep, Wilson is acting like a spoiled brat

A spoiled brat who is screwed up in the head. How did they let this guy off?

[BrotherIvan]

7. It sounds crazy because it is a LIE

I'm going to post my comment from another thread.

Darren Wilson's version of the story is IMPOSSIBLE. Either that, or Mike Brown is truly inhuman. Because he is the only person who has ever lived on this planet, who, while running and being shot at, turned and decided to run 150 FEET back towards the gun. He was running, shots fired that missed, and so he turned and was going to run half of a football field, not stopping even when he was hit multiple times, until he was killed. Pretending to have a gun in his waistband that he didn't have so keeping his hand in his shorts as he ran, a completely unnatural posture and would slow someone down considerably. The boy was running into bullets because he was so mad the cop told him to walk on the sidewalk.

That is the story that the prosecutor allowed the jury to hear and aided them to believe. That was the story that was not questioned or cross-examined. It was the eye witnesses that were cross-examined. The grand jury was not the place to put those witnesses on trial, and it sure as shit isn't the job of the prosecutor to kill his own case. All he had to do was show how incredibly untrue Wilson's story was and then hammered him at trial.

[SoCalMusicLover]

8. Assuming The Prosecutor Wanted An Indictment

He acted perfectly reasonably assuming his goal was to get a no-bill on all possible charges.

[Dustlawyer]

23. Yes, there is ZERO doubt that the D.A. wanted a "No Bill." Now that he has lost 5 for 5 and there

was way more than enough evidence to indict, plus the unorthodoxed approach to the GJ there is no other reasonable explanation for what happened. Then the orchestrated fiasco on the release of the findings late at night, a solitary police "bait" car left out unattended begging for the protestors to vent on.
The Browns should be given a "Do Over." This was rigged because the D.A. Refused to do his job!

[azmom]

12. Yeah, makes no sense he

Would charge at the officer. None whatsoever.

[loyalsister]

14. Hadn't he also already been shot once?

I know it was in his hand not his leg or abdomen or something. But still! Wouldn't that interfere at least a little bit with how much he would have been physically up to what Wilson claimed?

[logosoco]

16. There was no traffic.

This is the suburbs. People walk in the street all the time.

[BronxBoy]

17. What robbery????

[heaven05]

18. that IS LAME!!!!!

geez

[Kalidurga]

19. get out

[arcane1]

20. Suburban apartment complexes are not known for their traffic.

Nice try though. So unique!

[uppityperson]

21. When was he walking "in the middle of traffic"?

[Voice for Peace]

22. From now on every questionable shooting by cop

should go directly to a federally appointed special
civil rights investigative something or other.

[mythology]

24. A parent is probably not the most effective character witness, particularly not a grieving one

Did his parents know he was willing to commit robbery including manhandling the clerk?

For example, Susan Klebold said her son "Dylan was a gentle, sensible kid", a description most people would probably disagree with given his final actions.

http://www.oprah.com/world/Susan-Klebolds-O-Magazine-Essay-I-Will-Never-Know-Why

After suicides it's so common that it's cliche to say that nobody saw anything was wrong.

I'm not comparing Brown to Dylan Klebold or to somebody who is suicidal (although I'm sure some will think so), but that parents rarely know exactly what their kids are up to, or who they are with their friends.

[BronxBoy]

25. Yes you are.....

and stop it!!!!!

You are comparing Michael Brown to the Columbine Killers????? Really????