Courtesy of HuffPo:
ABC News broke into scheduled programming Tuesday afternoon to give a brief preview of the interview. Stephanopoulos told viewers that he spent more than an hour with Wilson in a "secret location." He said Wilson told him that he is "sorry" for the death of Brown, but that he would not do "anything different" if he were to relive that day.
"He does not think he could have done anything differently," Stephanopoulos said.
"He says he did what he was trained to do. He has a clean conscience over his actions that day."
"He has a clean conscience over this actions that day." You know having a clean conscience after ending the life of another human being indicates a psychopath.
Even soldiers fighting in wars against individuals that are trying to kill them, do not usually say they have a clean conscience over the soldiers they have killed.
Even if you really feel you are justified that is a troubling way to put things.
And saying that he would not have done anything differently....well I don't even know what to do with that statement.
If you watch this tonight feel free to weigh in here to let us know what you think of Wilson during, and after the interview. I am interested to learn if it changes anybody's mind or not.
He's a fucking sociopath. -SJP
ReplyDeleteI am NOT going to watch it.
ReplyDeleteI read his testimony and that was puke-worthy enough.
Same here.
DeleteNot watching.
DeleteI watched the interview and was deeply troubled by his "story"!
ReplyDeleteNot feeling any remorse over taking an others life and saying he'd do nothing differently is truly disturbing.
Working on a daily basis as a police officer in majority African American Ferguson and we're suppose to believe that he was scared for his life in broad daylight that he felt his only option was to fire his gun into this young mans body a dozen or so times?
Completely unbelievable.
Let's see if he resigns........
DeleteHe will never work on the streets again.
DeleteHe reminds me of George Zimmerman, no remorse for taking a young life. No regrets for killing a black young man who had his whole life ahead of him, planning college. Wilson is said to be "working out a settlement" Now, I suppose the mostly black city will be paying this cold blooded killer a large amount to go away. He has no soul. I would like to hear from his first wife, I wonder why they divorced? No justice, no regrets from this person. He will be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life. His new wife is also on the police force, she is about 9 years older than him.
Deletewhy would the police department want a cop on duty who feels like a 5 year old, and appears to be disassociating by talking about a person as "it" looking like a demon, and it was running through the bullets?
DeleteOh Brother! he was obviously coached and well rehearsed...not only is he an incompetent cop, he is also is a lousy actor.
ReplyDeleteI didn't watch the interview but I have no doubt he's been coached. He's had months to polish his story after all.
DeleteSound just like the guy that killed Treyvon Martin. George something...
These guys must be sociopaths, because any human being with one scintilla of humanity, would say they were remorseful and wish things had turned out differently. No matter how justified they felt at the moment they took a person's life.
Boycott this interview. This man is a sociopath. Why give him what he wants. Scumbag.
ReplyDeleteHeavily coached! He will curse the day he met Michael Brown for the rest of his life.
ReplyDeleteYep. Nobody except the KKK and their admirers is going to support him.
DeleteHe should have worn his white hood while on camera.
DeleteAudition for a commentator slot on network - fail. Darren Wilson has a dud personality and little ability to bring any life to the script he's been coached on.
ReplyDeleteThis case is reminding me more and more of Zimmerman and the Trayvon Martin murder.
ReplyDeletePeople who have no conscience scare the hell out of me.
You beat me by 2 minutes.
DeleteI thought the same thing when I saw his comments that he had a clear conscious. I immediately thought of the Hannity interview where I believe he asked Zimmerman if he would do anything different and he said no. I have known soldiers who have killed people who were trying to kill them and it still bothered them to know they killed someones son.
DeleteThe white George Zimmermann.
ReplyDeleteAre the Sarah Palin White Supremacist Cult going to begin liking Stephanopoulos now?
ReplyDeleteFuck stephanopoulos! I have no intention of watching the interview, but $5 says it's almost identical to the hannity and zimmerman piece
DeleteI will not watch the effing racist cop who is profiting financially for shooting an unarmed young man.
ReplyDeleteIn his testimony to the grand jury, Wilson referred to the young man he shot as 'it.' He called 'it' the 'Hulk' and a demon, dredging up the worst stereotypes of the superhuman black man used to create fear and justify oppression and murder.
I'm disgusted, distressed, and angry and can only imagine the continuing pain of our African-American citizens.
THANK YOU.
DeleteFrom this tragedy, I hope Ferguson has learned something. Time for the PD to hire BLACK police officers who know their community. No justice was served in this case, none whatsoever. Everyone is saying that burning and looting is wrong, but imagine the frustration of this. If the tables were turned (NEVER in the USA) and a black police officer had shot and killed a young white man, how would white people react to this jury;s decision? Racism is alive and well here in the good ol' US of A. Other countries see this and wonder if this is "democracy" why fight for it?
DeleteThe Palin troll hasn't been on this thread yet, which surprises me. I want to know why the Palins and/or their paid minions have been so nastily emphatic about defending Darren Wilson and Bill Cosby on IM. My theory is that they have an inkling of the big story Gryphen's working on, and they just can't stay away because they're frantically worried about when it will break. In the meantime they're het up and ragin' (and probably drunk and/or on drugs) and they keep picking fights with commenters and being snotty mean girls to Gryphen (STFU, you effing atheist liberal blogger who slanders people, blah blah).
ReplyDeleteDon't y'all have rattlesnakes in Alaska? Apparently nobody ever told 'em you don't poke a six-foot rattler with a foot-long ruler and expect to keep all your fingers. Serve 'em right if all those toxins rotted their middle fingers right off, now that I think about it.
Who really gives a fuck about her anymore. Stay on topic.
DeleteThe multiple fake names troll? She is a sick fool with no life outside of IM Trolling.
Delete7:38 I think you are a little shy of the top floor.
DeleteDon't overthink what isn't there.
Wilson panicked, or he wanted to prove his prowess as vigilante for the white community.
ReplyDeleteInstead of wait for back-up, which he knew was coming, he went all "Zimmerman" and had to get out of the car and pursue Brown for the same reason Zimmerman did Trayvon Martin. They wanted to hunt some prey.
Had Wilson stayed in the car and waited one more minute until the other police cruiser arrived, Michael Brown would still be alive today.
This cop vigilantiism has got to stop. He should be charged, as a lesson to others who have associations with white supremacists, but obviously, the whole well is poisoned. These police seem to believe they have the right to challenge any unarmed black teenager and if the teen doesn't fully cooperate, they would love nothing better than to pull the trigger on them.
Wilson will 'eat his gun' when the reality hits him that he will never work as a police officer again. He had found a 'MOMMY' figure to marry at the station. They have no life away from work.
DeleteMy husband said exactly the same thing. He panicked and then went on a vigilante shoot. But unfortunately this prosecution team didn't do their job. What a shame.
Delete"...unfortunately this prosecution team didn't do their job. What a shame."
DeleteOne more way this killing and the aftermath mirrors the Martin-Zimmerman case. Angela Corey as FL AG and her prosecution team did a faceplant. One would almost guess they did it intentionally.
I am not convinced the policeman had any evil intent. I live within several miles of the event. I am sympathetic with all sides.
ReplyDelete"The event."
ReplyDelete???
You mean, the killing? The unlawful killing? The homicide, if not murder? That "event"?
There is no witnesses of how Wilson said it went down in his police car, just his own words. Yet they find Brown's blood in the police car, making it look like there was an exchange and Brown's blood was there? I haven't watched this video yet but got parts of it from CNN today. Why would Brown's blood be in his car, my guess, they probably planted it. What is very wrong with this situation is that the prosecution didn't question this cop killer or bring in any witnesses...it seems so set up, then add the fact that they allowed the crazy to happen last night in Ferguson without trying to stop it. My feeling is they purposely allowed mayhem last night to justify themselves.
ReplyDeleteHere is an interesting little tidbit. The coroner did not take photos of Michael's body, because he ran out of batteries for his camera!! There were plenty of photos of the cop's non-injuries, though. Cold blooded killer got away with it. I hope that the day comes when he DOES look back and have some remorse. I doubt it, since he was lifeless on that interview. Why didn't he use a Taser, instead of bullets? It isn't as though Michael was attacking someone, he was walking in the street.
DeleteMichael Brown's friend (who was with him at the time) said that the cop shot him initially from inside of the car and Brown was bleeding from his chest. Could blood spatters from being shot sprayed inside of the car? The friend's story makes sense, the cop shot initially from inside of the car, and Brown and his friend fled (trying to get away from being shot). What doesn't make sense is the cop's version of continuing to shoot at them as they are running away due to being in fear for his life. It would make sense at some point that Brown being wounded was willing to surrender to stop the cop from shooting at him. However, the cop took Brown's discontinuing his fleeing to attacking him.
DeleteRegarding the cop's "injuries", since he was sitting in the car, how was he only punched on the right cheek? He would have to be having an exorcist moment.
DeleteThe cop is a coward he shot an unarmed teenager and then said he was fighting him with no real bruising like a battered woman. Hey like toad.
ReplyDeleteYes please protest bankrupt that town. Bankrupt the police budgets. I know federal aid will step in. But still keep protesting. The cop killed an unarmed young man. The dud of a DA in my book is not a DA. The cop has a fairytale.
ReplyDeleteI'd also like to say that Mike Brown's mother and her boyfriend, Mike Browns step father didn't do any good last night night with his bullshit screaming to burn this shit down. What a shame, it really set back this hole thing. From what I understand he was living with his father. His father had nothing to do with these protests last night. I feel shame on his mother and boyfriend. She didn't need to scream in this revolution or protest, she could have been smarter like Travon Martins mother and father.
ReplyDeleteBut when is it going to end? Black lives are the same as white lives. Understand this racial killing has got to stop. Especially as the murdered had no weapon.
DeleteKeep that in mind when your son is murdered in front of your home in broad day light by the very people you pay to protect you.
DeleteDon't you think she has every right to be angry?
@11:47 Every parent of a murdered child should be the epitome of rational thought because you have standards, right?
DeleteThis ass thinks he's a seal team, wanna be.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing this sad mess needs is an accurate timeline for each witness and not the lump of docucrap that the DA dumped on the grand jurors. Then it needs complete accurate forensics. Until then I am tuning a deaf ear to any official explanations of what happened.
ReplyDeleteMy suspicion is that Mike Brown did a knuckleheaded thing. He he was 18, the start of the knucklehead development phase. But cop darren wilson, who was supposed to be trained to handle the public, has revealed himself as a disrespectful bully, looking for a fight.
Pulitzer goes to the news organization that takes the docudump, lays it out in understandable pieces AND THEN, AND ONLY THEN, writes an editorial. Clock started Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. Get crackin, guys.
' Mike Brown did a knuckleheaded thing. He he was 18, the start of the knucklehead development phase.'
DeleteWhat the heck is a knucklehead phase?
And today a navy seal guy would laugh about taking this guy down and shooting him dead. They would say, wtf? You asshole.
ReplyDeletePerhaps Darren Wilson needs to spend a few tours in either Afgan, or Irag before he learns who is the enemy.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't there, I don't know exactly how it happened.
ReplyDeleteJust do away with this indictment process. There is no trial. At least in this case the DA is very bias especially hearing his background. He should have been put out. It really is not fair. Keep protesting. There is no leadership from the governor.
ReplyDeleteWhen you kick a human long enough they lose whatever civility they may have had before the abuse started. I know why the violence erupted in Ferguson. It was carefully orchestrated by those in control.
ReplyDeleteMy only hope in all of this is we are not talking about the 60's or 70's anymore where this kind of thing was regularly swept under the rug. This is 2014 and there are cameras everywhere.
I'm putting my faith and hope - which are created in a special part of the brain most folk call religion - in the ACLU. I'm imagining sharp hungry young and old lawyers who grew up on tales of injustices back then stand up and say No more. You do not get a pass.
Ferguson authorities were given a chance to show their colors and ooo boy did they ever flash. So now it's the ACLU's turn. Lets see what they can find. I'm thinking there has to be a couple of strings somewhere. People used to being in control get sloppy.
They (the them from which all civility MUST be saved) tried to bury us but they did not know we were seeds.
Long way to say I won't watch the interview. My late husband, one of the fiercest warriors I've ever met killed a person, several persons actually in the line of duty. He was justified and he carried that burden the rest of his life.
I don't trust someone who has confidence - it's been said before, the intelligent well thought person is filled with questions (it's been quoted as doubts but I see it as questions). The person who doesn't think has no doubts. They KNOW they have the answer, even if all the facts are pointing in another direction.
What do I think is a solution to all this? Cameras on all police force members who interact with the public. Film goes to the station and to an independent (not the chiefs brother in law either) monitoring system. That's a start and lets see how it goes from there.
Honestly, instead of spending all that money on riot gear the Ferguson police had an opportunity to outfit everyone with cameras.
Even if the family had not gone off there would have been a fight. All that gear? Everyone ramped up? Yeah, Monday nights violence was inevitable because those in charge wanted it that way.
Let's hope it is true that evil never serves it's own purpose.
Connie
It was appalling that the DA chose to hold the press conference and announcement of the GJ verdict at 9 PM at night EST (8 PM in St. Louis).
DeleteI can only imagine that he did it that late so that his riot police squads wouldn't have the faces of the people they shoot at clearly visible, and that they could just shoot into "the dark".
Why not announce at noon, DA McCulloch, so that your cops can see that there are real people out there? Coward.
Oh, boy. Knowing facts, evidence, etc. should always be the first step before forming opinions and making decisions. Tribalism seems to get us in to trouble, hurts us. Making villains out of "the other" makes it so much harder to come to a good conclusion. Stating something, just because it supports "my side" doesn't show evenhanded justice. So, if a person wants to understand the situation, read it all using critical reasoning. Go ahead and read the whole Grand Jury report. Try to set aside any preconceived positions, that we all have, by the way. Come to an understanding using the primary sources that are available. Give yourself credit for knowing and believing something because you have come to your conclusion validly, whatever the conclusion may be. Most of life is actually pretty nuanced, full of "if only", "on the other hand", "from what I know now", etc.
ReplyDeleteYes, Smiling, let's base our conclusions on the evidence, only on the evidence, because everything else is bias and logical fallacies, which humanity reeks of.
DeleteCritical evaluation of evidence and avoiding the bias of what we call our (unsupported) 'inner feelings' is the fairest method.
I learned everything I need to know about that little twit Suckitoffolous when he interviewed O'Keefe and Breitbart and brought up their "Acorn Video" without ever mentioning that two state's Attorneys General had already found it to be a total fraud. If you haven't watched his interview with Wilson yet, prepare for some hard-hitting journalism. Just kidding.
ReplyDeleteBrown's friend (who was walking with Brown when Wilson arrived on the scene) has given the most believable description of Wilson that I've yet seen. I'll sum it up this way: Wilson is a mouthy, antagonistic smart-ass hiding behind a badge. He decided to teach some unimpressed "boys" a lesson, and was active in both initiating and escalating the situation. Also missing from Wilson's story is that he initially started to drive away, then came back to them in reverse nearly hitting them, and would have had they not been alarmed by the sound of his SUV and jumped out of the way. That sounds like vehicular assault to me, and that's also what pissed off Brown, and led to the beginning of the situation turning violent. Nothing about Brown's actions toward Wilson made any sense until I read that account earlier. People just don't go from walking down the street on their way to smoke some weed with a friend to punching at a cop without something happening in between.
Just like the law that protected Zimmerman while he "stood his ground," the law that protected Wilson has also protected a killer who was the initial aggressor who went on to defend himself with a gun because he was getting or trying not to get a well-deserved ass kicking.
I'm not opposed to protecting cops, not only when they're clearly right, but they also need reasonable protections from reasonable mistakes - the important part being "reasonable." Aggravating a situation by being a smart-ass, bully, or otherwise acting out should negate the "reasonable" defense. It's should also be obvious by now that allowing any cop - no matter what a dumb-ass he might be - to issue and execute a "Dead or Alive" warrant on anyone he believes to be a "fleeing felon" was never a reasonable idea. I'm pretty sure the two robbery/kidnapping victims in Phoenix who escaped their captors and ran from the building only to be gunned down by police would agree with me on that point. And, BTW, since when is stealing a few dollars worth of cigars a felony rather than a misdemeanor?
Wilson is a dead ringer for Nosferatu.
ReplyDeleteWhat conscience? Saw the video, he said "Sorry your son's dead" with the same level of emotion one says "please pass the popcorn". He was coached by his lawyers for the entire thing, They gave him index cards with the questions and answers.
ReplyDeleteThe entire "secret grand jury" system is flawed. Different standards for different states and different criminals. Even my BIL, who's in law enforcement. said he "never saw anything this flawed and biased" after watching the clip and reading the transcripts.
How many more african american teen boys will it take?