'How Can Your Conscience Be Clear?': Michael Brown's Parents On Grand Jury Decision, Violence In Ferguson
(CBS SF) -- Michael Brown's parents are expressing their frustration after Officer Darren Wilson spoke out about having a "clear conscience" following a grand jury decision not to charge Wilson for the Aug. 9 shooting of their son.
"His conscience is clear? How could your conscious be clear after killing somebody even if it was an accidental death?" mother Lesley McSpadden said Wednesday in an emotional interview on "CBS This Morning."
Wilson spoke to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday, saying, "I know I did my job right." In the interview, Wilson said he feared for his life as he tried to defend himself against the 18-year-old, who was allegedly throwing punches at him while Wilson was inside his police vehicle. The altercation then shifted outside the vehicle, where Wilson said Brown charged at him after initially running away. That's when the fatal shots were fired. While witness accounts heard by the grand jury differed, there were some that appeared to back up Wilson's version of events.
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Still, McSpadden said she doesn't "believe a word" of Wilson's account.
"I know my son far too well. He would never do anything like that. He would never provoke anyone to do anything to him and he would never do anything to anybody."
McSpadden said her son does not have a history of violence.
"One image does not paint a person's entire life," she said.
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Despite the heartache Brown's parents have faced dealing with the death of their son and the grand jury decision, McSpadden said that they have yet to receive personal condolences from Ferguson officials.
"Ferguson has never even come to me and even gave a condolence to me," she said. "No one, no one, and when I say come to me, like you and me are sitting here."
"We've just been disrespected all the way around," father Michael Brown Sr. said.
While their lawyer Benjamin Crump agreed that physical evidence is irrefutable, he still questions Wilson's story.
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