Posted on 11/13/2014 1:13:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Lawyers for Michael Brown's family stood outside the St. Louis County Courthouse on Thursday morning and said the family supports Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's call for calm once the grand jury announces its decision about whether to charge the Ferguson police officer who shot the teen.
But the attorneys said the governor's call should have been aimed at police as well.
The family wants to "reiterate his denouncement of violence, looting and rioting in the name of Michael Brown," said Anthony D. Gray, a Brown family attorney. "We feel, as the governor and other law enforcement officials, that such acts cannot be tolerated."
Gray added: "Law enforcement should have been equally condemned by the governor for this conduct at the same time he was admonishing the demonstrators. A strong message of zero tolerance should have been conveyed to all."
Those remarks come amid the backdrop of a region unsettled by months of protests after Brown, 18, was fatally shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. Many in the region fear that the earlier unrest is only a taste of what’s to come....
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
The Brown family and their lawyer are moving in on the Justice Brothers territory.
Don’t start nothing, there won’t be nothing...
Korean Marksman DIttos!
So sorry, but these people are idiots.
“Denouncement???”. Is this guy an attorney the same way All Sharpton is a minister?
Tolerance? Zero tolerance? So confusing!
Condemn violence? What a great idea. Perhaps start in your own family and neighborhood?
This Gov. is handling this the same way Kathleen Blanco handled Hurricane Katrina.
Not good
I think someone should have condemned the violence by Michael Brown’s mother, against his grandmother, in the dispute over T shirt sales.
Why is violence by her considered ok???
he and al both has trouble when they speaking contempoanusly!
LOL!!!
Hey, you, lawyer with a useless degree.....How about the family condemn the shameful behavior of their thuggish son?? How about everyone condemning you for being an ambulance chasing, blood sucking hack???
Now I feel better. Thanks
Love the Koreans no Bull Chit
Blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, blame, blame.
Every damned thing is somebody else’s fault, Mikey Brown is not responsible for his own behavior, somebody else made all of Fergs’ resident poor, it has to be the white man, and the police and the folks who own stores, they are the ones who made all those Blacks poor and forced them to watch small TV screens and wear old smelly sneakers.
Now that cold weather is here, I wonder how much protesting will happen.
The Brown family should be condemned for *their* violence.
That’s right. Negroes are not responsible for their own behavior. And they are being discriminated against, according to liberal theology on the subject. We have to be sensitive about the legacy of slavery and all that.
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