The St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office has released all the evidence and testimony in the Ferguson grand jury case, and you can read it all for yourself here.
There are many facts that weren’t previously released to the media, including photos of Officer Darren Wilson’s injuries and his full account of what happened that fateful August 9th when he shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown on a street in Ferguson.
Officer Darren Wilson’s testimony starts at page 195:
In the account Wilson says that after he asked the teenagers to get off the road, Brown replied,: ‘F***what you have to say’ and:
"the intense face he had was just not what I expected from any of this.”
At that point, Wilson noticed the Cigarillos which he realized had been recently stolen from a nearby convenience store. Wilson called for backup and angled his car to cut Brown off, and everything went downhill from there:
“As I’m opening the door he turns, faces me, looks at me and says, ‘What the f**k are you going to do about it,” and shuts my door, slammed it shut. I haven’t even got it open enough to get my leg out, it was only a few inches.”
According to Wilson, Brown started to punch him inside the car and he says he felt like a little boy next to Hulk Hogan due to their size difference. Wilson says he was left with no choice but to use his gun and he warned Brown, “Get back or I’m going to shoot you.”
“You are too much of a p*ssy to shoot me,” said Brown, reaching for Wilson’s gun.
Wilson says he thought Brown had the gun pressed into his leg and had shot it, and that he needed to get the gun or he would die. Wilson clicked the gun a few times and it didn’t fire, and then when it did it shattered the glass and startled them both.
“And then after he did that, he looked up at me and had the most intense aggressive face. The only way I can describe it, it looks like a demon, that’s how angry he looked. He comes back towards me again with his hands up.”
“At that point I just went like this, I tried to pull the trigger again, click, nothing happened.”
The gun was fired twice inside Wilson’s car, and then Brown started to run, “And I see a cloud of dust behind him.”
Photo of Officer Darren Wilson's injuries
Wilson chased him because he wanted to “buy 30 seconds of time” and “my main goal was to keep eyes on him and just to keep him contained until I had people coming there.” Wilson doesn’t wait for the backup he called to arrive.
“So when he stopped, I stopped. And then he starts to turn around, I tell him to get on the ground, get on the ground."
"He turns, and when he looked at me, he made like a grunting, like aggravated sound and he starts, he turns and he’s coming back towards me. His first step is coming towards me, he kind of does like a stutter step to start running. When he does that, his left hand goes in a fist and goes to his side, his right one goes under his shirt in his waistband and he starts running at me.”
Wilson fires into Brown several times but,
“it looked like he was almost bulking up to run through the shots, like it was making him mad that I’m shooting at him.”
Wilson didn’t know how many times he shot Brown, but says that he knew one bullet went into him and:
“the demeanor on his face went blank, the aggression was gone, it was gone, I mean, I knew he stopped, the threat was stopped.”