Darren Wilson Just Broke His Silence on Ferguson, Drops This Truth Bomb
Former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson broke his silence as the one year anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown approaches.
Wilson, who now lives more-or-less in exile in a St. Louis suburb, sat down for a lengthy interview with New Yorker Magazine and discussed issues such as race relations and the fallout in his life from that fateful day, August 9, 2014 . . .
The former Ferguson officer told The New Yorker that he had not read the Justice Department’s report on racism in Ferguson. “I don’t have any desire,” he said. “I’m not going to keep living in the past about what Ferguson did. It’s out of my control” . . .
The New Yorker’s Jack Halpern reports:
Later that night (after the shooting)…they turned on the television and watched live coverage of unrest in Ferguson. Barb recalled, “We stayed up all night watching, like, ‘Oh, my God—what’s going on? What are they doing?’ Barb’s younger son, who was then six, asked why there were images on television of Ferguson burning. Wilson told me, “I said, ‘Well, I had to shoot somebody.’ And he goes, ‘Well, why did you shoot him? Was he a bad guy?’ I said, ‘Yeah, he was a bad guy…’”
Halpern asked Wilson if he “thought Brown was truly a ‘bad guy,’ or just a kid who had got himself into a bad situation. ‘I only knew him for those forty-five seconds in which he was trying to kill me, so I don’t know,’ Wilson said.” (Read more from “Darren Wilson Just Broke His Silence on Ferguson, Drops This Truth Bomb” HERE)
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