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After Brown autopsy, mom wants officer arrested Monday August 18th, 2014 at 12:25 PM

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After Brown autopsy, mom wants officer arrested Monday August 18 th , 2014  at  12:25 PM 1 Share Yamiche Alcindor and John Bacon, USA TODAY  12:16 p.m. EDT August 18, 2014 A demonstrator carries a picture of Michael Brown, 18. (Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images) FERGUSON, Mo. — A preliminary autopsy report has convinced the family of Michael Brown that the police officer who shot him should be arrested, a lawyer for the family said Monday. "His mother asked the questions that ... lawyers could not answer -- what else do we need to get them to arrest the killer of my child?" lawyer Benjamin Crump said at a press conference here. Crump said Brown's mother, Lesley McSpadden, asked if her son suffered pain before he died. Pathologist Michael Baden, who conducted the autopsy, "shared his opinion that he did not suffer," Crump said. Baden, who also spoke at the press conference, said Brown, 18, was shot least six times,