August 9 will mark the 10-year anniversary of the murder of Mike Brown, the 18-year-old who was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri.
Amsterdam News has been reporting the news of the day from a Black perspective for 113 years. Donors who choose to give monthly or annually will receive Amsterdam News’ Weekly E-Edition and acclaimed weekday newsletter Editorially Black to their inbox!Lezley McSpadden, founder of the Michael O.D. Brown We Love Our Sons & Daughters Foundation poses with Justin Hansford, director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center.
On July 10, McSpadden had the opportunity to talk with international lawyers about the killing of her son by taking part in a. The IACHR promotes adherence to human rights in the Americas, and the Mike Brown case is the first U.S. police violence case it has ever heard.
Missouri failed to press charges, but it was even worse when the U.S. Department of Justice filed their own case report in 2015. Initially, McSpadden was given a contact at the DOJ and was encouraged to speak with her. They wound up spending a lot of time together, talking for at least two months about her son and what he had been like as a child and as a brother to his siblings. Then, the DOJ contact called one day and let McSpadden know that they planned to examine Mike’s juvenile record.
“I wanted her to give me some more details,” McSpadden said, “She had a large stack of papers in front of her: I wanted her to go through some of those papers and explain to me how they came to this conclusion. She would not do that and in return she said to me that she felt threatened by me and my tone and this let me know that this narrative that had been building about my son was now a part of her biased conclusion.
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