Wilson’s wife, Barb Wilson, also a Ferguson officer at the time, told the reporter: “You know, a typical police shooting is: you get about a week to a week and a half off, you see a shrink, you go through your Internal Affairs interviews”.
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That was the first time Wilson had ever fired his gun while on duty, the New Yorker reported.
“I would want to do it for a day”, Wilson said, to show people he wasn’t “defeated”.
Some people believe police “have too much power, and they don’t like it”, he said.
Brown, that is brown, appeared to be exposed in the event that he died August. nine in Ferguson, Mo., by Officer Darren Wilson, who will be light.
That story, which delves into Darren Wilson’s upbringing and the moments leading up to his fateful encounter with the 18-year-old Brown, as well as Wilson’s current life in hiding, has drawn the ire of activists online. “‘You know. Where it’s not a mixing pot.'”.
After the shooting and subsequent protests, the Justice Department released a report saying there was “no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely to disprove Wilson’s stated subjective belief that he feared for his safety”.
The most shocking details in the New Yorker piece aren’t even about Wilson, but about the environment in which he was policing.
Wilson wrongly told a white man he interrogated in 2013 that the man did not have the right to film their encounter, and admitted to Halpern that he simply did not know the letter of the law Ferguson cops used to arrest people for “failure to comply” with their commands.
“Everyone is so quick to jump on race”.
Wilson said that his mother was loving, but couldn’t be trusted not to steal from her own children. “It’s not a race issue”, he added, noting there were two opposing views about policing. “So I have to think about him”. Wilson said was supposed to meet his wife for lunch when he heard the call come in over his radio about a “stealing in progress” nearby.
Some Ferguson protesters burned stores and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at heavily armored police, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds – all under the lens of live, national media coverage.
Wilson reportedly paid for it with the help of $500,000 in donations he received in the wake of the shooting.
“No, you don’t”, said Wilson, who was incorrect. Not really, because it doesn’t matter at this point.
“[Older people] who experienced [overt racism in past decades], and were mistreated, have a legitimate claim”, [Wilson] told me. You may be white, but they still respect you.
After spending some years as a cop in the predominately black town of Jennings, Wilson said he developed a fondness for the black community itself, and avoided looking for work in white municipalities. He added, “They’re so wrapped up in a different culture than-what I’m trying to say is, the right culture, the better one to pick from”. “No. Not at all”, he said. I had fun there….
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“I said, ‘Well, I had to shoot somebody.’ And he goes, ‘Well, why did you shoot him?” He told me that he still ate out, but only at certain places.
