Darren Wilson, recalling shooting, said Michael Brown looked like a demon

Los Angeles Times ^ | 11/25/2014 | Maria La Ganga

[SeekAndFind]

It started with a simple request — "will you just walk on the sidewalk?" Forty-five seconds later, Michael Brown lay sprawled on the street, shot dead by a police officer who had never before fired his gun in the line of duty.

And as he drove away from the 18-year-old's body, heading to the Ferguson police station to wash Brown's blood from his hands and surrender his gun, all Officer Darren Wilson could think was, "I'm just kind of in shock of what just happened. I really didn't believe it."

Those were the words he shared with a grand jury. And late Monday, Wilson's explanation of that deadly day in early August became public for the first time, in a small part of an enormous trove of documents released by St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch.

Thousands of pages of police interviews, autopsy reports and secret testimony — including Wilson's — were made public after McCulloch announced the grand jury's decision not to indict Wilson in Brown's death.

Until late Monday, Wilson's voice had remained silent, and the general story line went largely unchallenged: White police officer shoots unarmed young black man trying to surrender on a summer day in a St. Louis suburb.

But on Monday, Wilson's terror and panic were plain to see in 90 pages of his testimony before the grand jury on Sept. 16 and an 18-page interview with detectives that was recorded Aug. 10, the day after Brown's death.

[Beeman]

I think you have the wrong direction when he left this world.

[The Great RJ]

What was in the toxicology report? It sounds like Brown may have been hopped up on something.

[Beeman]

I agree with you 100%. I saw an inmate convicted of murder look at me like this, and I will never forget it. My skin crawled. He bashed a woman’s head in and took a pool cue and rammed it up her until the tip was in her neck. He was given the death penalty in Florida until the Supreme Court said it was too much because of his upbringing-I guess upbringing by demons prevents the death penalty.

[ExCTCitizen]

He is now with Demons in Hell.

[SaraJohnson]

He was thugged up on RAP and drugged up on pot laced with pcp. He probably did look demonic.

[FamiliarFace]

So in the grand jury testimony, which I just finished reading, Wilson describes himself as being almost 6’4” and about 210 lbs. He also said that when he grabbed Brown’s forearm to try to deflect the blows that he felt like a five year old grabbing Hulk Hogan. He felt completely undersized compared to Brown.

[JimRed]

I am willing to bet that the word “Unarmed” will still be used if this case is referred to in the future.

I thought it was his middle name, pronounced oo-NAR-med.

[Candor7]

Sadly, I don’t think he has a career in the justice system anywhere. The Papers have already published his address. He’s a marked man.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

A little bit of lead can go a long way. I do not think you will see anyone triffling with Wilson anytime soon.The cost of doing so is high; very , very high.I think he would make a great deputy sherrif. I still say he will have a job in the justice system.