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November 26, 2014

Darren Wilson: "I Know I Did My Job Right" 
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Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson has spoken publicly for the first
time since he fatally shot Michael Brown. In an interview broadcast on
ABC News, Wilson described how he shot Brown repeatedly because he
feared for his life. He was interviewed by George Stephanopoulous.

George Stephanopoulous: "Is there anything you could have done
differently that would have prevented that killing from taking place?"

Darren Wilson: "No."

George Stephanopoulous: "Nothing?"

Darren Wilson: "No."

George Stephanopoulous: "And you're absolutely convinced when you look
through your heart and your mind, that if Michael Brown were white, this
would have gone down in exactly the same way?"

Darren Wilson: "Yes."

George Stephanopoulous: "No question?"

Darren Wilson: "No question."

Stephanopoulos also asked Wilson whether the killing of Michael Brown
would always haunt him. bq. bq. Darren Wilson: "I don't think it's
haunting. It's always going to be something that happened."

George Stephanopoulous: "You have a very clean conscience."

Darren Wilson: "The reason I have a clean conscience is because I know I
did my job right."

In his testimony, released after the grand jury decision, Wilson
compares Michael Brown to a "demon," and says, "When I grabbed him, the
only way I can describe it is I felt like a five-year-old holding onto
Hulk Hogan."

 

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