Brown Family Urges Police, Protester Restraint Ahead Of Ferguson Decision

Lesley McSpadden, right, Michael Brown, Sr., left, parents of teenager Michael Brown who was shot by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, and attorney Daryl Parks, center, speak during a press conference about the UN C... Lesley McSpadden, right, Michael Brown, Sr., left, parents of teenager Michael Brown who was shot by a policeman in Ferguson, Missouri, and attorney Daryl Parks, center, speak during a press conference about the UN Committee Against Torture who convenes this week to evaluate the US government's compliance with the Convention Against Torture, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini) MORE LESS

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Attorneys for the family of Michael Brown are urging restraint on the part of both protesters and police once a grand jury decides whether the officer who shot him should face criminal charges.

Attorneys Anthony Gray and Benjamin Crump held a press conference Thursday outside the St. Louis County Justice Center, where the grand jury is meeting and Dr. Michael Baden, who performed a private autopsy on the family’s behalf, was scheduled to testify.

Crump said attorneys would not get into the substance of Baden’s testimony, except to say he had identified one additional entry wound in Brown’s chest. He did not elaborate on what that might mean.

Brown’s parents, who were in Geneva this week as the U.N. Committee Against Torture heard testimony about U.S. policies, did not attend.

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