Brown’s Mother Responds to ‘Burn This Bitch Down’: Husband ‘Spoke Out of Anger’

In a CNN interview scheduled to air tonight, Michael Brown‘s mother explained her husband’s cry to “burn this bitch down,” yelled after a grand jury refused to indict Officer Darren Wilson for the death of Brown, was said out of anger — but a justifiable anger.

When asked if Louis Head’s comments caused the turmoil and eventual rioting, Lesley McSpadden said it was impossible: the riots “happened since August 9th,” the day that Brown was shot and killed, she said. “These emotions with were taken over him, just like mine, and he just spoke out of anger. It is one thing to speak, and a different thing to act. He did not act, he just spoke out of anger.

“I’m a grieving mother, and that is my husband,” she continued. (Head is Brown’s stepfather.) “And he has been around Michael for four years, so he has grown to love him — not as much as I do, but he is going to love him just like he does his own children. So when you are that hurt, andhe system has did you this wronged, you may say some things as well.”

The footage of Head’s comments was replayed over and over again by the major news networks, and according to most pundits, incited the later rioting that night.

Watch below via CNN:

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