Mike Brown Collage
The fight for justice for Mike Brown is far from over.
Just this morning, at a news conference at Greater St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis County, family attorney Darryl Parks, alongside Mike Brown's parents, announced that a civil lawsuit would soon be filed.
The family always intended on filing this suit, but chose to wait until after the grand jury and DOJ proceedings were complete—with the hope that Darren Wilson would be found guilty in at least one of the investigations. When he wasn't, they released the following statement:
We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will not face the consequence of his actions.
While we understand that many others share our pain, we ask that you channel your frustration in ways that will make a positive change. We need to work together to fix the system that allowed this to happen.
Join with us in our campaign to ensure that every police officer working the streets in this country wears a body camera.
We respectfully ask that you please keep your protests peaceful. Answering violence with violence is not the appropriate reaction.
Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.
Details are forthcoming on the lawsuit.