Former Ferguson cop Darren Wilson opens up about his life in seclusion

He said that he meant “pre-gang culture, where you are just running in the streets-not anxious about working in the morning, just anxious about your immediate gratification”. But the trail was cold, the suspects gone, so Wilson continued on to lunch.

Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson is shown during his medical examination after he fatally shot Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo.

In the article, Wilson talks about his own childhood, about what happened with Michael Brown, and about what’s been happening to him since.

When Halpern confronted Wilson with statistics showing that Ferguson police singled-out African-American residents for traffic violations, Wilson shrugged them off.

“There is no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely to disprove Wilson’s stated subjective belief that he feared for his safety”, the Justice Department report said. A grand jury chose not to indict former officer Darren Wilson, who’s yet to find another policing job.

Dean was loving, Wilson said.

Wilson does say the following about Brown, a comment some may see as callous and others sympathetic. When asked if he misses going out, Wilson leaves little ambiguity to his feelings on people of different races.

This sounded like racial code language.

Halpern also described the many security precautions Wilson, a new parent who said he received “threats about doing something to my unborn child” after he shot Brown, felt were necessary. A few witness said he moved slowly, others said he ran, but he did not comply to Wilson’s demands to stop. “At the time, Wilson didn’t understand what had triggered her death, but he now thinks that it might have been suicide”, wrote Halpern.

Read the New Yorker piece HERE.

Instead, the couple spent the night watching the news as unrest in the city escalated. “So why can they respect you and not me?”

“I didn’t want to work in a white area”, Wilson told Halpern. “And he goes, ‘Well, why did you shoot him?”

The often radical strikes to follow Brown’s dying exposed boiling stresses between Ferguson’s mainly chocolate locals and also its particular extremely light monitor push.

The Justice Department issued a report on the shooting that found Wilson did not violate Brown’s civil rights, and that Wilson’s use of force was reasonable.

“Everyone is so quick to jump on race”, he added.

Wilson said the department had a few bigoted members, but rejected the idea of institutional racism.

“What happened to my great-grandfather is not happening to me”, he said.

The former police officer said he interviewed for several police positions but has been turned down over liability concerns.

“I am really simple in the way that I look at life”, Wilson continued. His death sharpened racial tensions between a predominantly black community and a mostly white Ferguson Police Department. I had fun there…

“‘People who experienced [police harassment] and were mistreated, have a legitimate claim”, he told The New Yorker.