One day after fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, gave his account of the incident to two detectives from the St. Louis County Police Department, explaining in detail how Brown attacked him through the police car’s open window, wrestled for the officer’s gun, and then pointed it at him.
“My duty bag was on the passenger seat,” said Wilson. “I wasn’t willing to give up more of my vehicle and my body to him to lean over and grab it and turn away from him. I thought I was already compromised enough.
“I drew my firearm, I pointed at him. …. ‘Stop I’m going to shoot you’ is what I ordered him to get on the ground,” Wilson said. “He said, ‘You’re too much of a f-cking pussy to shoot me’ and grabbed my gun. When he grabbed my gun, he twisted it, pointed at me and into my hip, pelvic area.”
“At that point,” Wilson said, “I was guaranteed he was going to shoot me.”
