
Darren Wilson, the former police officer who shot and killed unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown last August in Ferguson, Missouri, is unemployed and living in seclusion on the outskirts of St. Louis, he reveals in an in-depth New Yorker profile.
Wilson, who wasn’t indicted in the case, says he has struggled to find employment since the August 9, 2014 shooting, which became a flashpoint for racial tensions around the country. Wilson says he wanted to go back to work for the Ferguson police, but was told that his presence on the force might endanger other officers. He briefly worked in a boot store but quit when reporters began calling the store.
He says he hasn’t read the U.S. Justice Department’s report on the systemic racism of the police in Ferguson, a predominantly African American St. Louis suburb.
“I don’t have any desire,” Wilson told The New Yorker. “I’m not going to keep living in the past about what Ferguson did. It’s out of my control.”


August 5, 2015 





Good for him