Michael Brown’s Parents Explain U.N. Visit: World Needs to Know What Happened

Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden, the parents of slain teenager Michael Brown, arrived in Geneva today to testify before the United Nations Committee Against Torture to, as they put it, raise global awareness of what happened in Ferguson.

Brown’s parents appeared on CNN earlier today to talk about their visit to the United Nations. McSpadden said they’ve been received very well, and that they’re trying to explain “something that’s been happening for years” in the United States.

Brown told Ashleigh Banfield that the goal of their testimony is to bring attention to “police brutality [and] no justice” in cases like their son’s to global attention.

Additionally, CNN’s website includes a comment by McSpadden saying, “We need the world to know what’s going on in Ferguson and we need justice… We need answers and we need action. And we have to bring it to the U.N. so they can expose it to the rest of the world, what’s going on in small town Ferguson.”

Watch a clip of the interview below, via CNN:

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