Brown Family Attorney: Prosecutor ‘Changed the Rules’

Brown family attorney Benjamin Crump has been critical of the Grand Jury process in Ferguson since before the decision was announced Monday evening, and he remained so Tuesday morning in an interview with Savannah Guthrie on Today.

“[Bob McColluch] didn’t recommend any charges or anything,” Crump said. “He put all the evidence out there and said let’s just be fair to everybody. And this is different than what I’ve ever seen in my twenty years of practicing law.”

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“So the question becomes, if for 28 years he has been prosecutor before the grand juries and he didn’t do it this way, was he being unfair to them? Why change the rules now when it’s our children lying on the ground? We want the same justice, we want equal justice, that you do for everybody else. Don’t change the rules on our children.”

“The system needs to be indicted,” Crump added. “This system is completely unfair to the citizens, especially African-American and minority citizens, when you have police-involved shootings. This system, over and over again, exonerates police officers for killing young people of color.”

Watch the clip below, via NBC:

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