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Darren Wilson Opens Up to New Yorker: ‘I Liked the Black Community’
Mediaite ^ | August 3, 2015 | Alex Griswold

Posted on 08/03/2015 2:56:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, who ignited a national firestorm when he shot and killed African-American man Michael Brown, opened up recently in an interview with The New Yorker.

Wilson revealed that since the shooting, he has struggled to find work and has been denied employment in several police departments in the St. Louis area. After working for a shoe store for two weeks, he quit when reporters began calling. His wife, who is also a police officer, also quit her job for her own safety.

Wilson also revealed the he actually sought out the Ferguson police department because he wanted to work in a racially-mixed community, not a lily-white one. “I liked the black community,” he said. “I had fun there… There’s people who will just crack you up.”

But at the same time, he criticized the culture that he saw in the neighborhood. Wilson said children should pick the “right culture” as opposed to the “pre-gang culture, where you are just running in the streets—not worried about working in the morning, just worried about your immediate gratification. It is the same younger culture that is everywhere in the inner cities.”

Wilson’s wife Barb Wilson also spoke to The New Yorker, and recounted the first time he told her that he had killed Brown: “He just walked in and was, like, ‘I just killed somebody…’ [his] face was flushed and red—it didn’t look right.”

Wilson didn’t speak much about the actual shooting (he is still being sued by Brown’s parents), but did respond to a question about whether he still thought about Michael Brown. “Do I think about who he was as a person? Not really, because it doesn’t matter at this point. Do I think he had the best upbringing? No. Not at all.”


TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics
KEYWORDS: banglist; blacks; crime; darrenwilson; ferguson; lawenforcement; michaelbrown; missouri

1 posted on 08/03/2015 2:56:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Social media. My husband lost his job when vicious people took to social media. It can destroy a life within two weeks. Look at what’s happening to that poor dentist. (And don’t write me if you dislike the dentist.)


2 posted on 08/03/2015 3:01:43 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And he seemed like such a nice kid.

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3 posted on 08/03/2015 3:05:19 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is that past tense? Wonder what political persuasion he was? Better yet, what is he now.


4 posted on 08/03/2015 3:41:16 PM PDT by nomad
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To: ETL
Michael Brown was a thug.

Now, he is dead. Killed by his own actions.

Killed by his "parents", whose lousy and pathetic method of "parenting" led him to being a thug.

If anyone, at all, should be hounded, sued, imprisoned and left to rot in a cell, it is Brown's "parents".

In fact, both of them (if they are still capable of having children) should be forcibly sterilized, up to and including surgical excising of their reproductive organs.

5 posted on 08/03/2015 3:44:18 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Political correctness destroys another person.


6 posted on 08/03/2015 4:00:12 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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