The white police officer who killed Michael Brown has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, his attorney said Saturday, nearly four months after the fatal confrontation with the black 18-year-old that fueled protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.
Darren Wilson, 28, has been on administrative leave since the shooting on Aug. 9. His resignation was announced Saturday by one of his attorneys, Neil Bruntrager. The resignation is effective immediately, Bruntrager said.
Nothing at all surprising about this. After all how could this man ever be expected to walk the streets of Ferguson as a law enforcement official after this.
Or walk down the street at all actually.
And why should he keep such a low paying job, rife with the possibility of further interaction with people who so desperately need to be shot, when he can get paid simply to spin his tales on television?
Courtesy of Got News:
A NBC source with knowledge of the #DarrenWilson interview talks said that ABC offered to pay “mid-to-high” six figures for the interview.
The source did not say an exact figure because NBC stopped bidding for it after ABC upped the ante.
Mid-to-high six figures, that sounds somewhat north of $500,000 doesn't it?
Quite a bump up from what police officers typically make, isn't it?
Well perhaps Wilson is looking for a more lucrative job providing analysis on some cable new outlet or something. Hmm, I wonder which cable news station would be so unscrupulous as to hire a man who just may have shot a young man to death in cold blood?
By the way Wilson characterized his decision to quit the Ferguson police force as "the hardest thing I've ever had to do."
Yes so much harder than gunning down an unarmed teenager in the streets. Right?
0 Comments:
Post a Comment