Posted on 11/07/2014 1:24:23 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Michael Brown's mother has been named as one of the 'attackers' who assaulted and robbed vendors selling t-shirts commemorating the youngster's death.
A report from Ferguson police identified Lesley McSpadden, 34, as one of a group of up to 30 people that ran into the tent and ransacked the stall in the Missouri city on Saturday October 18.
Pearlie Gordon, 54, Brown's mother-in-law, and two men were selling 'Justice for Mike Brown' merchandise when the subjects 'jumped out of vehicles and rushed them' during what police are classifying as an armed robbery.
According to the document obtained by the Smoking Gun, Gordon told police that McSpadden approached her and said, 'You can't sell this s****.'
In response, Gordon reiterated that she was Michael's mother-in-law and said that unless McSpadden had a patent with her son's name on it, she would continue to sell the merchandise.
Then McSpadden's mother, Desureia Harris, began to rip down t-shirts hanging on a line, Gordon told officers.
While doing it she said: 'You don't know my grandson like that.'
Then other members of the group joined in and also began 'tearing her booth apart.'
Gordon told the authorities that she was repeatedly struck in the head and knocked to the ground.
More than $1500 in merchandise and $400 in cash 'was stolen by unknown subjects' who managed to escape before police arrived.
A witness who saw the alleged assault while waiting at a red signal said that she saw subjects 'punching' the t-shirt vendors.
The investigation into the incident - which has been classed as an armed robbery - is ongoing.
Two days ago it was announced that McSpadden and the slain youngster's father Michael Brown Senior would be speaking at a human rights conference in Switzerland.
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No Justice, No Peace!!!
The THUG doesn’t fall far from the tree...(I wonder what the mom does for work...she had Mikey at 16...Did the young THUG had his sperm donor around?).
Michael Brown was married? He had a mother-in-law? Somehow I had missed that piece of information.
Michael Brown was married? He had a mother-in-law? Somehow I had missed that piece of information.
Married is a figure of speech in Ferguson. Pearlie is probably the mother of a girl that bore one of Michael’s kids.
It is after all, the village and not subject to the cultural norms that real America abides by
The apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree.
Such classy people!
Pearlie Gordon, 54, Brown’s mother-in-law....
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The dead guy was married? What?
Hmmm.
So if he has kids with 3 or 4 different women he could have as many as 4 mother in laws.
Yikes.
I doubt he was much of an inventor - but what does that have to do with the situation at hand anyway?
I bet this family tree looks like a road map.
It’s a little confusing and the article wasn’t very clear, but I believe Pearlie is the mother-in-law of the “youngster’s” father, Michael Brown, Sr.
Thx, and nothing personal, but I really couldn’t care less.
Thank you for clearing that up. So the bad blood between these 2 dames might go back a ways, eh?
But I do rather agree with the other poster who was sympathetic to the mother resenting people making money off her son’s death.
Hubby used to make and sell t-shirts, but he would never do them for tragic situations, even though he probably could have made a lot of money doing it.
Full disclosure, I didn’t always agree with his choice.
“It’s a little confusing and the article wasn’t very clear, but I believe Pearlie is the mother-in-law of the “youngster’s” father, Michael Brown, Sr.”
More correctly, Michael Brown, Sr.’s mother, thus McFadden’s mother in law or ex MIL.
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