In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Options
Darrin Wilson Leave Ferguson PD
JnRockwall
Member Posts: 16,350 ✭✭✭
http://news.yahoo.com/ferguson-officer-shot-michael-brown-resigns-233328989.html
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) - The Ferguson police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown has resigned, his attorney said Saturday, nearly four months after the confrontation between the white officer and unarmed black 18-year-old that ignited protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.
Related Stories
Chief: Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson `immediately' returns if cleared in Michael Brown's death Yahoo News
Video shows Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson leaving for the hospital after shooting Michael Brown Yahoo News
Ferguson officer who shot Michael Brown marries Associated Press
Grand jury does not indict Ferguson officer involved in teen shooting MarketWatch
Ferguson police Officer Wilson thanks supporters Associated Press
Darren Wilson, who has been on administrative leave since the Aug. 9 shooting, resigned effective immediately, said his attorney, Neil Bruntrager. He declined further immediate comment.
The Brown family attorney, Benjamin Crump, didn't immediately return phone and email messages from The Associated Press.
Wilson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he was stepping down out of his "own free will" after the police department told him it had received threats of violence if he remained an employee.
"I'm not willing to let someone else get hurt because of me," said Wilson, who had been with the department for six years.
Wilson fatally shot Brown after a scuffle in the middle of a street, where Brown's body lay for several hours as police investigated and a crowd of angry onlookers gathered. Several days of tense and at times violent protests followed, prompting Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to call in the National Guard to help.
Some witnesses have said Brown had his hands up when Wilson shot him. Wilson told a grand jury that reviewed the case that he feared for his life when Brown hit him and reached for his gun.
The grand jury spent more than three months reviewing evidence before announcing Monday that it wouldn't indict Wilson, igniting violence among protesters that resulted in at least a dozen commercial buildings in the area being destroyed by fire. Several other large but peaceful protests have since been held in Ferguson and across the country.
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting and a separate investigation of police department practices.
Wilson's resignation didn't seem to affect protesters outside Ferguson police headquarters Saturday night.
Rick Campbell said he didn't care about the resignation, saying: "I've been protesting out here since August." Several other protesters merely shrugged their shoulders when asked about the resignation.
"We were not after Wilson's job," civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton said in a written statement. "We were after Michael Brown's justice."
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson didn't immediately return a message left on his cellphone seeking comment.
Wilson spent months in hiding and made no public statements following the shooting. Wilson, who recently got married, broke his silence after the grand jury decision, telling ABC News that he couldn't have done anything differently in the encounter with Brown.
Wilson said he had a clean conscience because "I know I did my job right." Brown's shooting was the first time he fired his gun on the job, he said. Asked whether the encounter would have unfolded the same way if Brown had been white, Wilson said yes.
Wilson began his career in nearby Jennings before moving to the Ferguson job a few years ago. He had no previous complaints against him and a good career record, according to Jackson, who called Wilson "an excellent police officer."
A few months before the shooting, Wilson had received a commendation for detaining a suspect in a drug case.
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) - The Ferguson police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown has resigned, his attorney said Saturday, nearly four months after the confrontation between the white officer and unarmed black 18-year-old that ignited protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.
Related Stories
Chief: Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson `immediately' returns if cleared in Michael Brown's death Yahoo News
Video shows Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson leaving for the hospital after shooting Michael Brown Yahoo News
Ferguson officer who shot Michael Brown marries Associated Press
Grand jury does not indict Ferguson officer involved in teen shooting MarketWatch
Ferguson police Officer Wilson thanks supporters Associated Press
Darren Wilson, who has been on administrative leave since the Aug. 9 shooting, resigned effective immediately, said his attorney, Neil Bruntrager. He declined further immediate comment.
The Brown family attorney, Benjamin Crump, didn't immediately return phone and email messages from The Associated Press.
Wilson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he was stepping down out of his "own free will" after the police department told him it had received threats of violence if he remained an employee.
"I'm not willing to let someone else get hurt because of me," said Wilson, who had been with the department for six years.
Wilson fatally shot Brown after a scuffle in the middle of a street, where Brown's body lay for several hours as police investigated and a crowd of angry onlookers gathered. Several days of tense and at times violent protests followed, prompting Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to call in the National Guard to help.
Some witnesses have said Brown had his hands up when Wilson shot him. Wilson told a grand jury that reviewed the case that he feared for his life when Brown hit him and reached for his gun.
The grand jury spent more than three months reviewing evidence before announcing Monday that it wouldn't indict Wilson, igniting violence among protesters that resulted in at least a dozen commercial buildings in the area being destroyed by fire. Several other large but peaceful protests have since been held in Ferguson and across the country.
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting and a separate investigation of police department practices.
Wilson's resignation didn't seem to affect protesters outside Ferguson police headquarters Saturday night.
Rick Campbell said he didn't care about the resignation, saying: "I've been protesting out here since August." Several other protesters merely shrugged their shoulders when asked about the resignation.
"We were not after Wilson's job," civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton said in a written statement. "We were after Michael Brown's justice."
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson didn't immediately return a message left on his cellphone seeking comment.
Wilson spent months in hiding and made no public statements following the shooting. Wilson, who recently got married, broke his silence after the grand jury decision, telling ABC News that he couldn't have done anything differently in the encounter with Brown.
Wilson said he had a clean conscience because "I know I did my job right." Brown's shooting was the first time he fired his gun on the job, he said. Asked whether the encounter would have unfolded the same way if Brown had been white, Wilson said yes.
Wilson began his career in nearby Jennings before moving to the Ferguson job a few years ago. He had no previous complaints against him and a good career record, according to Jackson, who called Wilson "an excellent police officer."
A few months before the shooting, Wilson had received a commendation for detaining a suspect in a drug case.
Comments
Shut up, lay low, grow out his hair and a mustache at least. Move away and start over real quiet like.
Not fair, but since when is life always fair?
Darrin Wilson is the only person whose civil rights have been violated
9
quote:The Three Stooges(b0zo-holder-Sharpton) should be jailed and tried for inciting riots and destruction of Govt/Private Property...
And add all of those asshats at CNN to that list..
Exactly.................but he has no civil rights because he is white.
I bet he gets a sweet severance package
He resigned, I doubt he received any kind of severance package. About the only thing he will receive is a check for his unused vacation time, and legal representation in a civil suit.
The best thing he can do is to change his name and move as far away as possible, maybe San Diego, maybe then he'll be able to find another job
He may not be going anywhere, he married a Ferguson police officer last month. http://www.people.com/article/ferguson-policeman-darren-wilson-marries?xid=rss-topheadlines
quote:Originally posted by Mk 19
The best thing he can do is to change his name and move as far away as possible, maybe San Diego, maybe then he'll be able to find another job
He may not be going anywhere, he married a Ferguson police officer last month. http://www.people.com/article/ferguson-policeman-darren-wilson-marries?xid=rss-topheadlines
I tell ya what, she must really love him or she is really stupid...maybe a lil of both.
Another thing all the news agencies are riding the race angle. Listening to BBC I heard them yapping on about the "White Cop" shooting a "Black Man".
can he receive a pension if he didn't quit but took a permanent medical leave due to stress. [?][?][?] I don't know, that is why I am asking.
I can't imagine that would be possible, but then again there are folks on disability for learning disabilities. He'd have to demonstrate that he is not capable of performing another job other than LE.
I think he will be perfectly safe a year from now if he moves out of the area. People will not have a clue who he is walking down the street, especially to a minority;. All us whiteys look the same. [:D]
If Brown had been white, this wouldn't have even made the news.
"Asked whether the encounter would have unfolded the same way if Brown had been white, Wilson said yes."
If Brown had been white, this wouldn't have even made the newsever happened because he probably wouldn't have been walking down the middle of the road blocking traffic. [;)]
Don't know if the news has that right. If so, the Chief deserves some ill treatment himself. If fired he'd at least be able to use the cop union to go after back pay. Resigning has to cost him, and that ain't right.
Somebody ought to start one of those GoFundMe things for Wilson like all of the business owners have going.
There has been several fund raisers for him. I bet they have raised over $500K for him. They had raised $250K with in a few weeks of the shooting. I donated money and purchased a t-shirt.
When he is inevitably being sued in civil court, is he responsible for the legal bills or the department he worked for when the incident happened?