By JIM SALTER , Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri governor’s office said Friday it doesn’t have the authority to appoint a special prosecutor reinvestigate the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, despite pressure from Brown’s mother to do so. Lezley McSpadden said earlier in the day that she’d launched…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The mother of Michael Brown and the maker of a documentary about his death will be speaking at Harvard University. Brown was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson in 2014. The officer was not charged. Brown’s death touched off widespread protests and a national discussion about race relations and…
Philadelphia, PA (KTRS) Michael Brown’s mother is scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. Lezley McSpadden will speak as part of the group the “Mother’s of the Movement.” This is a group of mothers who lost children to encounters with police of gun violence. Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner and Sybrina Fulton,…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The mother of Michael Brown says she’ll never forget the day a police officer killed her son in Ferguson. Lezley McSpadden says she was taking a cigarette break from her grocery store job in Clayton, another St. Louis suburb, when a friend called to say someone had been shot near Canfield…