In an interview with NBC's TODAY show, Lesley McSpadden, mother of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown, said police officer Darren Wilson's account of Brown's Aug. 9 death added "insult after injury."
Brown's father, Michael Brown Sr., alleged that Wilson's account "sounds crazy."
The Wednesday interview comes on the heels of a Tuesday interview with Wilson by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.
In that interview, Wilson described Brown as being the aggressor throughout the confrontation that first night in Ferguson. He claimed in the interview that Brown charged him repeatedly, even after Wilson had fired several shots at him.
Brown's father told TODAY's Savannah Guthrie that that account didn't fit with his son's personality, nor with common sense.
"For one, my son, he respected law enforcement,'' Brown Sr. said, adding: "Who in their right mind would rush or charge at a police officer that has his gun drawn? It sounds crazy."
The couple has appealed for calm in Ferguson. Brown's mother said she blamed Gov. Jay Nixon and other officials for the violence, an apparent reference to the heavy police and Missouri National Guard presence in Ferguson. "They stirred the pot. They had everyone on edge, they had everyone in an uproar."
Source: stltoday.com
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