Brown’s stepfather, Louis Head, held a sign during protests that said: “Ferguson police just executed my unarmed son!!!” Later in the evening, about 100 protestors gathered outside Ferguson police headquarters and chanted, “No Justice! No Peace!”
Ferguson police said they turned over the matter to county police, and chief of police Thomas Jackson said he was “hoping for calm and for people to give us a chance to conduct a thorough investigation.”
Brown’s mother,Lesley McSpadden said the shooting occurred as her son was walking to his grandmother’s home. McSpadden said Brown “doesn’t kill, steal or rob. He doesn’t do any of that.”
Brown was a 2014 Normandy High School graduate who was scheduled to begin classes at Vatterott College on Monday.