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March 6, 2015

Michael Brown Family to Sue Ferguson, Darren Wilson 
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Attorneys for the family of Michael Brown have announced plans to sue
the city of Ferguson, Missouri, and Darren Wilson, the police officer
who shot and killed the unarmed African-American teenager. Attorney
Anthony Gray made the announcement a day after the Justice Department
said it would not bring civil rights charges against Wilson.

Anthony Gray: "We feel, and we've always felt from the very beginning,
that Officer Darren Wilson did not have to shoot and kill Mike Brown Jr.
in broad daylight in the manner that he did, that he had other options
available to him, and that he chose deadly force as his option. And we
plan to demonstrate in a court of law, to reasonable-minded people, that
the choice to use deadly force was unreasonable and unnecessary under
those circumstances."

 

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