Why I shot unarmed Michael Brown: What Ferguson's white cop told the grand jury

After the grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the Ferguson case where he shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown, transcripts of testimony that jurors heard have been released to the public. Here are excerpts of what Wilson told the Jury in his testimony: On fearing Brown and thinking he could beat him to death: Wilson told the Grand Jury that he noticed that Brown was carrying a handful of Cigarillos and realised that he’d heard a call earlier that day for a robbery involving the small cigars. He then stopped Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson and asked the two of them to get on the sidewalk. [caption id=“attachment_1820591” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Image: AP[/caption] “I go to open the [police cruiser] door and I say, hey, come here for a minute to Brown,” Wilson said. “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.” Wilson said he then opened his door again and used it to push Brown back. Wilson said Brown grabbed the door again and he saw Brown coming into the cruiser. Wilson said Brown then punched him in the face. “I felt that another of those punches in my face could knock me out or worse … I’ve already taken two to the face and I didn’t think I would, the third one could be fatal if he hit me right,” Wilson said. On testifying that he shot at Brown “As he is coming towards me, I tell, keep telling him to get on the ground, he doesn’t. I shoot a series of shots. I don’t know how many I shot, I just know I shot it,” he said. “I know I missed a couple, I don’t know how many, but I know I hit him at least once because I saw his body kind of jerk,” he said. “Just coming straight at me like he was going to run right through me. And when he gets about that 8 to 10 feet away, I look down, I remember looking at my sites and firing, all I see is his head and that’s what I shot. The area where Brown was shot a “hostile environment” “There’s a lot of gangs that reside or associate with that area. There’s a lot of violence in that area, there’s a lot of gun activity, drug activity, it is just not a very well-liked community. That community doesn’t like the police.” ‘The threat was stopped’ “I don’t know how many, I know at least once because I saw the last one go into him. And then when it went into him, the demeanor on his face went blank, the aggression was gone, it was gone, I mean, I knew he stopped, the threat was stopped. “When he fell, he fell on his face.”