By Melanie Batley From Newsmax

Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, said that the unarmed teenager taunted and threatened him, and accused him of being too cowardly to shoot.

According to NBC News, Wilson detailed the confrontation with police detectives following the killing and said he was afraid for his life.

Specifically, he was asked what he was thinking during the encounter. He said, “He’s gonna kill me.” “How do I survive?” “How do I live through this, basically?”

Later in the interview, Wilson described Brown as physically uncontrollable and “for lack of a better word, crazy. I’ve never seen that. I mean, it was very aggravated, aggressive, hostile. Just, you couldn’t, you could, you could tell he was lookin’ through ya.”

Court records show that Wilson’s testimony before the grand jury was also along those lines. He was questioned for four hours in September, NBC News reported.

At one point during the testimony, he said, “I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan,” adding, “That’s just how big he felt and how small I felt just from grasping his arm.”

He also described in his testimony to the court the rage Brown unleashed on him.

“The only way I can describe it, is it looks like a demon,” Wilson said. “That’s how angry he looked,” The New York Post reported.

The details of the testimony and whether the officer felt physically at risk are pivotal in determining whether the shooting was justified under the law. The grand jury’s decided not to indict Wilson on any charges.

There were accounts, however, that conflicted with Wilson’s, but several witnesses testified that Brown did advance on the officer.

“As tragic as this is, it was not a crime,” St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch said, according to NBC News.

In the immediate aftermath of the incident, Wilson described the confrontation moment by moment to investigating detectives, starting from the first encounter when Wilson asked the teenagers to stop walking in the center of the road after responding to a call about a theft of mini-cigars.

Brown swore at him, at which point Wilson said he tried to get out of his car but Brown cursed and shut the door.

Brown, he said, “was swinging and punching at me from outside the vehicle” and made at least three attempts to enter the car through the open window. He also gave Wilson two “solid blows” to the face with a closed fist, the officer recounted.

He told the jury that he was concerned that another punch to his face would “knock me out or worse,” the Post reported.

Brown then turned to the person he was with, giving him “several packs of cigarillos,” at which point Wilson grabbed Brown’s arm, but he said Brown was too big and powerful to control, according to NBC News.

“I was already trapped and didn’t know what he was gonna do to me, but I knew it wasn’t gonna be good,” Wilson said.

Brown had him pinned him down so that Wilson couldn’t reach his Mace canister, he said. He said he wasn’t carrying a Taser so he pulled out his .40-caliber handgun.

Wilson told investigators that Brown taunted him saying, “You’re too much of a pussy to shoot me.” Then, he said, Brown grabbed his gun, and “my firearm was in his control around my hand.”

Wilson then described in detail the moments he began firing. Two shots were fired from inside the car at which point Brown ran away. Wilson said he got out of the car, called again for back-up and then began pursuing Brown.

Brown “stopped, he turned, looked at me, made like a grunting noise and had the most intense aggressive face I’ve ever seen on a person,” Wilson said, according to NBC News.

He fired more shots, he said, which “hit him in the head and he went down right there.”

“I got on the radio and said, ‘Send me every car we got and a supervisor,'” Wilson said.

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Ferguson riots: Ruling sparks night of violence

From BBC

The US town of Ferguson has seen rioting and looting after a jury decided not to bring charges over the killing of a black teenager.

Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, on 9 August, sparking protests.

A police chief said the latest violence in the suburb of St Louis, Missouri, was “probably much worse” than on any night since the teenager’s death.

St Louis County police chief Jon Belmar said rioters had fired 150 shots.

Many in the African-American community had called for Mr Wilson to be charged with murder, but after three months of deliberation a Missouri grand jury – of nine white and three black members – made no recommendation of charges.

President Barack Obama joined the teenager’s family on Monday in appealing for calm, urging Americans to accept the decision was “the grand jury’s to make”.

The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool reported seeing more vandalism and looting after Monday’s ruling than on any night in August.

Demonstrators flooded on to the streets of Ferguson after the verdict, with several buildings set alight

Police were heavily armed but say they did not use their firearms during the rioting overnight

Several cars were set on fire during protests in Dellwood, an area of St Louis close to Ferguson

Many residents and business owners took to the streets early on Tuesday to begin the clean-up

‘Torn apart’

Authorities said more than 80 people were arrested amid chaos in several areas of St Louis overnight. Sixty-one of those arrests were in Ferguson, with charges including burglary and trespassing.

The fabric of the community, Mr Belmar, had been “torn apart” in Ferguson, which is a predominantly black community patrolled by a mainly white police force.

As protesters charged barricades, hurling glass bottles, police responded with smoke and tear gas.

One protester, Charles Miller, told the BBC that while he did not advocate violence, he understood why people were angry.

“You can’t just go shoot an 18-year-old who’s unarmed on the street, despite what the story may have been,” he said.

Thousands of people also protested in other US cities, from Los Angeles to New York.

In Oakland, California, they blocked traffic on a major highway in the San Francisco Bay area.

The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool abandoned an interview as tear gas landed near him

‘Y’all wrong!’

Much of the debate since August has centred on whether Michael Brown was attempting to surrender to Darren Wilson when he was shot, and protesters have adopted the chant “Hands up, don’t shoot”.

But state prosecutor Robert McCulloch, speaking after the grand jury decision, said physical evidence had contradicted some of the witness statements.

State prosecutor Bob McCulloch: No “probable cause” for indictment

Police say there was a struggle between the teenager and the officer before the shooting.

Mr Wilson himself says that before the shooting, Mr Brown had pushed him back into his car, hit him and grabbed at his drawn gun.

The jury was made up of 12 randomly picked citizens from the state of Missouri. At least nine votes were needed in order to issue an indictment.

Mr Brown’s family said in a statement: “We are profoundly disappointed that the killer of our child will not face the consequence of his actions.”

But they also appealed for calm, saying: “Let’s not just make noise, let’s make a difference”, and calling for all police to wear body cameras.

Mr Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, wept at news of the jury’s decision as she was comforted by supporters outside the police station in Ferguson.

Mr Brown’s family could yet file a wrongful-death lawsuit against Mr Wilson.

Meanwhile, a justice ministry investigation is still under way into whether the police officer violated Mr Brown’s civil rights.

Darren Wilson, 28, is currently on paid leave and has kept out of the public eye.

The ministry is also investigating practices at the Ferguson police department.

IMAGES:

Demonstrators celebrate as a business burns in Ferguson, 24 November

Riot police on a vehicle in Ferguson, 24 November

The charred remains of cars that were set alight during riots in Dellword, Missouri – 25 November 2014

A worker cleans up glass at a building damaged during riots in Dellwood, Missouri – 25 November 2014

Map of Ferguson, showing where Michael Brown was shot dead – 25 November 2014

Mr Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, is comforted by supporters in Ferguson, 24 November

An undated family snapshot of Michael Brown

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