Officer Who Shot And Killed Micheal Brown (Darren Wilson) Claims "Ferguson Made Me Unemployed"

Officer Who Shot And Killed Micheal Brown (Darren Wilson)
Claims "Ferguson Made Me Unemployed" 

BHR Hollywood Reports...............One year after he fatally shot Michael Brown on a street in Ferguson, Mo., former police officer Darren Wilson said the tragedy made him unemployable but that he would like to return to the Ferguson force for "one day."

The 29-year-oldhasn't been able to land a new police job, and is haunted by death threats stemming from Brown's shooting almost exactly one year ago.

Officer Darren Wilson 

Wilson, who was not indicted in Brown’s killing says Jake Halpern he hadn’t reflected much on who Brown was because he had been preoccupied with the waves of protests in Ferguson and the civil lawsuit Brown’s parents filed against him in May.

“You do realize that his parents are suing me?” Wilson said. “So I have to think about him.”

He added: “Do I think about who he was as a person? Not really, because it doesn’t matter at this point. Do I think he had the best upbringing? No. Not at all.”

Darren Wilson also told reports that it’s too hot an issue, so it makes me unemployable,”.

Wilson said that after a grand jury cleared him, he wanted to rejoin Ferguson’s police force but was told that might put other officers at risk.

Michael Brown 

“They put that on me,” Wilson said. He said he worked for two weeks at a boot store, but quit when reporters called the store. “No matter what I do, they try to get a story off of it,” he told The New Yorker.

Asked what he would do if Ferguson police offered him his job back, he said he would do it for one day so people would not view him as "defeated."

Wilson, 29, shot Brown, 18, following a scuffle Aug. 9.

 The shooting, and a grand jury decision not to charge Wilson, set off massive and sometimes violent protests across the nation.

The Day Of The Shooting 

Jake Halpern said he spent several days with Wilson at his home on the outskirts of St. Louis.

Wilson lives with his wife, Barb, also a former Ferguson police officer, and their baby.

Wilson said that in the months following the shooting he had been preoccupied with the legal ramifications and overall tumult, and had not thought about who Brown really was.

“I only knew him for those forty-five seconds in which he was trying to kill me,” Wilson said.

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. But it also issued a report describing the justice system of Ferguson as racist.

Micheal Brown Parents 

Wilson said the department had a  few bigoted members, but rejected the idea of institutional racism. The Justice Department’s numbers were “skewed ... you can make those numbers fit whatever agenda you want," he said.

He dismissed the assertion that the underlying problem in Ferguson was the lack of quality jobs.

He said young people in Ferguson share a “pre-gang culture, where you are just running in the streets — not worried about working in the morning" and not feeling compelled to get a job.

“There’s a lack of jobs everywhere,” he said. “But there’s also lack of initiative to get a job. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”

He acknowledged that the available jobs often paid poorly, but added, “That’s how I started. You’ve got to start somewhere.”