Brown’s relative sorry for remarks

Facing possible criminal charges, Michael Brown’s stepfather apologised for his angry comments on the streets of Ferguson after a grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who fatally shot his stepson.

Officials are looking into Louis Head’s comments as part of a broader investigation into the arson, vandalism, and looting that followed the November 24 grand jury announcement, said St Louis County Police . Twelve commercial buildings were destroyed by fire.

Brown, 18, who was black and unarmed, was killed on August 9 by Darren Wilson, who is white. Wilson, who resigned from the Ferguson department last weekend, had told the grand jury his life was being threatened, but some witnesses said Brown was trying to surrender.

Video widely circulated after last week’s grand jury announcement shows Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, on top of a car and breaking down as the decision blares over a stereo. Head, her husband, comforts her then yells angry comments, including “Burn this bitch down!”

After learning of the charges, Louis Head apologised yesterday. “Something came over me as I watched and listened to my wife, the mother of Michael Brown Jr, react to the gut-wrenching news that the cop who killed her son wouldn’t be charged with a crime,” he said. “My emotions admittedly got the best of me.

“This is my family. I was so angry and full of raw emotions... I screamed out words I shouldn’t have screamed in the heat of the moment. I was wrong and I humbly apologise to all those who read my anger and my pain as a true desire for what I want for the community.”