Mike Brown's stepfather Louis Head apologizes for "burn" comments

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Mike Brown’s Stepfather Apologizes For Incendiary Comments

Via ABCNews

The stepfather of Michael Brown apologized today for repeatedly yelling “burn” comments moments after a grand jury cleared a Ferguson police officer in the death of the unarmed teenager last month.

Louis Head released the statement after police confirmed that they were looking into video of Head’s angry comments to determine whether the shouted remarks amounted to inciting a riot.

Fires raged in Ferguson that night, with businesses looted and destroyed in the St. Louis suburb.

Head was standing next to Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, on a Ferguson street when they heard the grand jury’s decision Nov. 24 to not indict Police Officer Darren Wilson in Brown’s death.

“Something came over me as I watched and listened to my wife, the mother of Michael Brown Jr., react to the gun-wrenching news that the cop who killed her son wouldn’t be charged with a crime,” Head’s statement said. “My emotions admittedly got the best of me… I was so angry and full of raw emotion as so many others were, and, granted, I screamed out words that I shouldn’t have…. It was wrong and I humbly apologize.”

Head said that it would be wrong “to place blame solely on me for the conditions of our community, and country,” and said the grand jury’s decision was also to blame for the ensuing riot.

“I’ve lived in this community for a long time. The last thing I truly wanted was to see it go up in flames. In spite of my frustration, it really hurt to see that,” Head said.

Police are looking into whether Head should be charged for inciting a riot, Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson confirmed in a Monday interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

“We are pursuing those comments, and there’s a lot of discussion going on about that right now, but I really can’t get into that at this time,” Jackson said.

The f***boy police in Ferguson have done enough damage to this family. Leave the man alone.

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