CNN is now offering Breaking News of a story I wrote yesterday on the personal account of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson shooting the black teenager Michael Brown on nate-thayer nate-thayer/ferguson-cop-darren-wilson-reveals-shot-missouri-black-teenager/ On Friday, officer Wilson’s girlfriend, fellow Ferguson police officer Barbara Spradling, either personally called in or authorized the public version of Ferguson police Sergeant Darren Wilson’s story of what happened around noon on August 9, 2014. I identified a caller to the “The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative” FMNewsTalk 97.1, St. Louis, Missouri Friday, on Friday August 15, 2014 as having phoned in from telephone numbers associated with officer Wilson. I transcribed the interview below: Here is the verbatim transcript: The Dana Show: I want to go to the phones and take, and I don’t know, this is a–the person on the line. It says ‘Josie’ on my call screener, but she has been identified, and I had our call screener talking to her, is a friend of Darren Wilson, the officer that was involved with this. Good afternoon to you. Thanks for calling in. “Friend” of Ferguson Police Sgt. Darren Wilson: Thanks you very much The Dana Show: So you said you are a friend of the officer that was identified by the police as being involved in the Michael Brown situation. Give me your aspect on this because now your friend’s name, this officer’s name, is out there. Talk a little bit to this. Sgt. Wilson “Friend”: Okay. Well it has been really, really hard to be quiet because I do know his version of the story and I haven’t, it seems like everyone only talking about the other side and I understand they haven’t really gotten to hear this side, um, and I have been afraid to say anything. I think we all are. All his friend and family but i just feel like I just need to put out there his version of events so people can consider them as the truth, if nothing else.” The Dana Show: OK Sgt. Wilson “Friend”: You want me to kinda run down…I mean…. The Dana Show: Yes, yes, absolutely Sgt. Wilson “Friend”: Okay. So he said that they, you know, um, they were walking in the middle of the street and he rolled his window down and, you know, said “Come on guys out of the street.” Um, they refused to, and were yelling back and saying: “We are almost where we are going.” There was some cussing involved, um, and then he just kept rolling up and he pulled over, and I believe, at that point, he called for a backup but I am not sure. But I know he pulled up ahead of them and he was watching them and then gets the call-in that there was a strong-arm robbery, and they get the description, and he was looking at them and they got something in their hands that looks like it could be, what, you know, those cigars or whatever, so he goes in reverse back to them and tries to get out of his car and they slam his door shut violently–I think he said Michael did–then he opened his car again and tries to get out. and as he stands up, Michael just bum rushes him, just shoves him back into the car, and punches him in the face, and then of course Darren grabs for his gun. Michael grabs the gun. At one point he has the gun totally turned against his hip and Darren, you know, shoves it away and the gun goes off. Well then Michael takes off with his friend and he gets about 35 feet away and, um, you know, Darren–of course protocol is to pursue–so he stands up and yells: “Freeze!” Um, Michael and his friend turn around and Michael starts taunting him: “Oh what are you going to do about it?”, you know, “You are not going to shoot me!” And then, he said, all of a sudden he just started to bum rush him. He just started coming at him full speed, and so he just started shooting, and he just kept coming. So he really thinks he was on something, um, because he just kept coming. It was unbelievable. And then–so he finally ended up, the final shot was in the forehead, and then he fell about 2 or 3 feet in front of the officer. So that is why the stories are going around that “Oh, he was shot execution style.” I think some people saw, you know, the shots to his head. Of course ballistics will prove he wasn’t shot in the back like the other people are saying that quote unquote when this (sic). But that’s, um, that is his version of what happened. The Dana Show: So can I ask how did you come by this information, is this something that you, did you have discussions with the family? How did you come to know the details of it? Sgt. Wilson “Friend”: Um, it was with his, um, significant other who told me. It was before it was such a huge, you know. It was Sunday night, before the riots, so, you know, it was when they were still on Facebook and everyone was still talking, you know, it was kinda an open discussion, about at that point, and of course, we had no idea it would turn into this. The Dana Show: Right. Is his family, are they in town? Have they left town? Sgt. Wilson “Friend”: They have not been in contact with anyone since Tuesday morning The Dana Show: I appreciate you calling in and giving that perspective. Thank you so much Sgt. Wilson “Friend”: Yes. Thank you. The Dana Show: That individual is a person who claims they are friends with the officer involved in the Mike Brown shooting, Darren Wilson, so again, when the investigation is concluded and more details are released–and earlier this morning the incident report was released–all of that is going to come out……….That was an interesting account. And I don’t know, you know that caller said they were friends with Darren Wilson and speaking to their significant other and that was how she got those details. You always have to be very careful in situations like that about, you don’t want to say that definitely was a friend, or it was definitely, but, it will be interesting to see, if when the investigation concludes, if all those details that she just gave matches up with what comes out of the investigation……” There are a lot of discrepancies between the account of officer Wilson and eyewitnesses’ to the shooting. Speculation is rampant. We will know the truth eventually, despite the efforts of interested parties to obfuscate them to manipulate popular opinion.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:32:45 +0000
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