As U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder prepares to visit Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday, a grand jury may also begin hearing evidence in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Holder's visit comes on the heels of a quieter night that still saw scuffles As the media-sanctioned rioting, bloodshed and looting continue in Ferguson, Missouri, evidence is … Read more
Finding the Truth in the Michael Brown Case: Will You Believe it? At this point in the Michael Brown investigation, there is a lot of speculation, but no absolute truth. 3:27 p.m. EDT August 19, 2014 Since Sunday, there has been a new picture of Michael Brown, the eighteen-year-old who was shot dead by a … Read more
Then, forensic pathologists Michael Baden and Shawn Parcells flew to Missouri to examine Brown at the request of the teenager's family. Amid violent protests, U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. ordered a federal autopsy, which was completed As the media-sanctioned rioting, bloodshed and looting continue in Ferguson, Missouri, evidence is emerging that police shooting … Read more
TODAY Show cohost Matt Lauer spoke with the parents of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson August 9, Tuesday morning. Since the fatal shooting of Brown, violent outbreaks, including looting and rioting, have TODAY Show cohost Matt Lauer spoke with the parents of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old shot … Read more
Hedy Epstein, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, was arrested on Monday during unrest over the death of Michael Brown, KMOV reports. Epstein, who aided Allied forces in the Nuremberg trials, was placed under arrest in A caller on Glenn Beck's radio program Monday said that Michael Brown may have been shot at least six times by … Read more
The preliminary results of an autopsy that Michael Brown's family requested are unlikely to settle the dueling narratives that have defined the case from the beginning. Brown was shot at least six times, all to the front of his body, according to the At this point in the Michael Brown investigation, there is a lot … Read more
White House officials argued that in a nation polarized on racial issues — and deeply split about the president — strong language from Obama about the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the protests and looting in Ferguson, Mo., would risk Michael Brown, who did not have a weapon on his person at the time … Read more
Department of Justice spokesman Brian Fallon cited a request by family members and the “extraordinary circumstances” surrounding the case of 18-year-old Michael Brown in explaining decision. “This independent After taking the highly unusual step of sending human rights monitors to Ferguson, London-based Amnesty International on Sunday called for state and federal probes into Brown's death, … Read more
Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was killed by a police officer, sparking protests around the nation, was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, a preliminary private autopsy performed on Sunday found. One of the bullets Citing “extraordinary circumstances,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered a second official autopsy to … Read more
A week of simmering tensions boiled over in Ferguson as gunfire and tear gas flew through the air and autopsy results show Michael Brown was shot six times. Michael Brown was shot and killed by police, sparking outrage Ferguson, Missouri, was just a place — a working-class suburb of St. Louis — before an unarmed … Read more