article_snippet: (CNN)The family of Michael Brown, the teen killed last year by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, will file a civil wrongful death lawsuit in the case "very shortly," attorney Anthony Gray said Thursday.
article_snippet: Neither " attorney Anthony Gray nor attorney Daryl Parks would say exactly when the suit would be filed, but Neither he nor attorney Daryl Parks said that Neither he nor attorney Daryl Parks disagreed with the grand jury's and Justice Department decisions not to charge Wilson in the shooting.
article_snippet: Neither he nor attorney Daryl Parks have accepted (Wilson's) self-defense,attorney Daryl Parks told reporters.
article_snippet: We do not accept his self-defense.
article_snippet: Word of a civil wrongful death lawsuit comes a day after the Justice Department determined there was not sufficient evidence to charge Wilson in Brown's death but found in a separate investigation that the Ferguson Police Department showed a pattern of racial bias.
article_snippet: and McSpadden released a statement Wednesday saying they were disappointed that Wilson would not face charges,
article_snippet: In November, a grand jury cleared Wilson and, in an uncharacteristic move in grand jury proceedings, the prosecutor released all the evidence that was considered.
article_snippet: Summing up the crux of the Brown family's case, Parks said, "There were other alternatives available to (Wilson).
article_snippet: He did not have to kill Michael Brown.
highlights_snippet: Word of civil lawsuit comes a day after Justice Department declines to charge Darren Wilson .