Michael Brown’s Mom Blames Governor for Her Husband Chanting ‘Burn this Bitch Down’

‘I don’t feel that he stirred the crowd, the crowd was already stirred’

GUTHRIE: "I know you were there in the crowd and this was just after the news came out. What do you have to say about that?"

MCSPADDEN: "That he was just emotional. I don’t feel that he stirred the crowd. The crowd was already stirred. It’s been stirring since August 9th. I hold — I wouldn’t hold him accountable for that. That comes from a higher power, elected official and it’s called the governor."

GUTHRIE: "Can you explain what you mean by that?"

MCSPADDEN: "They stirred the pot. They had everyone on edge. They had everyone in an uproar and had the city on edge, basically, since August 9th."

GUTHRIE: "You don’t feel that that made a bad situation even more volatile?"

BROWN SR.: "That was just raw emotion and nobody is condoning violence."

GUTHRIE: "No."

BROWN SR.: "You lose your child in this manner and somebody put video camera on you in the raw emotion, who knows what you would do if this is your child laying on the ground for four hours and you find out that the killer isn't going to be brought to trial."

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