I did my job right, says Ferguson cop

WASHINGTON: The white policeman who shot dead an unarmed black youth in Ferguson, Missouri and was reprieved by the state’s legal system remains unrepentant for his action even as the city smoldered after violent protests by rampaging African-American youth. The state's Democratic governor has deployed 2,000 armed National Guard to bring the situation under control.
Blacks across the country continued to demonstrate what they see as white police brutality, with President Barack Obama’s palliative words about the inequity they face having little effect on the community that voted 90 percent for America’s first colored president.''66 yrs, processing the same Old Shit! It's supposed to be different... It aint! Sorry for the Brown Family... The rest of us too!'' tweeted the actor Samuel Jackson, without referring directly to the President’s remarks that while blacks still faced discrimination, America had made ''enormous progress'' on racial issues.
The divide and mistrust between most blacks and whites was underscored in an interview that Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot dead 18-year old Michael Brown gave ABC. He portrayed the black youth in outsized terms, suggesting he was crazy and demonic as he (Brown) tried to snatch his (Wilson’s) gun with an intent to kill while he (Wilson) was seated inside his patrol car. Brown was shot when gave up scuffling and ran away after the officer’s weapon went off during the scrap, although Wilson has maintained Brown had turned around and was coming back at him when he fired 10 rounds.
ABC’s Stephanopoulos: Why not stay in the car? He’s running away …
Wilson: Because he’s not … my job isn’t to just sit and wait. I have to see where this guy goes.
Stephanopoulos: So you felt it was your duty to give chase?
Wilson: Yes, it was. I mean, that’s what we were trained to do.
Stephanopoulos: Is there anything you could have done differently that would have prevented that killing from taking place?
Wilson: No.
Stephanopoulos: Nothing?
Wilson: No
Stephanopoulos: Is it something that you think will always haunt you?
Wilson: I don’t think it’s haunting. It’s always going to be something that happened.
In the eyes of the black community, the exchange showing Wilson’s lack of remorse and his description of an 18-year old unarmed black kid as some kind of crazed monster out to kill him, is illustrative of the dehumanization that has led to rampant killing of black youth by white law enforcement authorities. While portraying Brown as an overgrown thug who was 6’ 4 inches, Wilson did share the crucial detail that he was of the same height, instead suggesting that the black youth overwhelmed him in size and he ''felt like a 5-year-old holding on to Hulk Hogan.''
Federal data on fatal police shootings in the US shows that black youth are at least 20 times more likely to be shot than whites. Nationwide, the rate of black conviction and incarceration is far higher than that of whites for similar crimes.
Civil liberties activists are also pointing out that for all the talk about black crimes and the dangers that police officers face in the line of duty, 2012 marked an all-time low for killings of police and a 20-year high for killings by police. Law enforcement also did not make the cut in the Bureau of Labor Statistics list of the10 most-dangerous professions in America.
Wilson, who revealed in the ABC interview that he had gotten married after the August 9 shooting of Brown and he and his wife are now expecting a child, is not out of the woods yet. The Federal Department of Justice is investigating the incident and it has the power to arrest and prosecute him under federal criminal charges even though the State of Missouri has absolved him. But given past US form, it's more likely that Wilson will be looking forward to a book and movie deal.