The post we had to read was the text of Darren Wilson’s testimony at the trial accusing him for the unjust murder of Michael Brown, a black teenager from Ferguson, Missouri.
In the testimony, Darren Wilson describes in great detail his altercation with Michael Brown and the violence which led him to shoot Michael Brown fatally.
The language used in his testimony is very interesting because, considering the court case was extremely hyped in American culture at the time of trial and after, the testimony reads like a novel. Wilson compares Brown to a Hulk, and himself to a five year old as he tries to battle Brown. Later in the trial, he compares the way Brown looked at him to the look of a demon.
Wilson describes how the events unfolded: first, that he heard of a robbery in the area; later, that he was driving on the street and he saw two teenagers walking in the middle of the street. When he confronted them and asked the two teens to move to the sidewalk, he explains that he received a surprisingly hostile response from one of the teens–Michael Brown. He describes the events that followed: as Wilson continued to ask the two teens to comply with his orders to walk on the sidewalk, he received increasingly hostile responses from Brown until the altercation evolved from a verbal one to a physical one, resulting in Brown’s death.
Finally, Wilson explains that from his point of view, his decision to shoot Michael Brown was allegedly a decision made out of fear for his life–that he had no choice but to shoot Brown in order to stay alive and protect himself.
Though Wilson’s testimony in no way paints a full picture of what happened before Michael Brown’s death, it does explain what went through Wilson’s mind at the time of the murder.