WASHINGTON, USA - The white policeman who shot dead the
unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, showed no remorse
in a racially inflammatory interview published on the one-year anniversary of
the shooting.
Darren Wilson has been living in hiding since he shot the
18-year-old on a suburban street and inadvertently caused days of rioting and a
national debate about race and police violence in America.
In language that commentators described as racially coded,
Wilson told The New Yorker he tries to take his wife and baby daughter out in
public only to places with “like-minded individuals” and avoids what he called
“a mixing pot”.
He also forcefully denied that he looked at the world
through a racial lens while he was a police officer.
“Everyone is so quick to jump on race. It’s not a race
issue,” he said when talking about the relationship between police and black
communities.
In the article, the 29-year-old Wilson said he did not spend
much time thinking about the young man he killed in Ferguson.
“Do I think about
who he was as a person? Not really, because it doesn’t matter at this point,”
he said. “I only knew him for those 45 seconds in which he was trying to kill
me,
so I don’t know.”
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