The white police officer who killed Michael Brown has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, nearly four months after the confrontation that fueled protests in the St. Louis suburb and across the nation.
Darren Wilson has been on administrative leave since the Aug. 9 shooting. His resignation was announced Saturday by one of his attorneys, Neil Bruntrager. Bruntrager says the resignation is effective immediately.
A grand jury spent more than three months reviewing evidence in the case before declining in November to issue any charges against the 28-year-old Wilson. He told jurors that he feared for his life when Brown hit him and grabbed for his gun.
The U.S. Justice Department is still conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting and a separate probe of police department practices.
(AP)
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Good for him. He is probably still in fear for his life!
It’s a shame that a police officer who we pay to protect us and the law has to feel so vulnerable!
I fear that we, the citizens, will all suffer as a result because police officers who’ve vowed to protect the constitution and the citizens of this great country will not do their utmost to exercise their duty! Wht haven’t law enforcement officials all over the country come to his defense! It seems they’ve been mum!
They won!
We all lost!
What an awful development. He probably was asked to do so to calm the “natives.” He didn’t do anything wrong!!
GUYS DONT FEEL SO BAD FOR SOMEONE WHO”S ABOUT TO RAKE IN MILLIONS ON PRIME TIME TV INTERVEIWS AND BOOK DEALS!!!