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Lord Herbert
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And this is why the Grand Jury acquitted the officer.
"In testimony before the grand jury on September 16, the officer described the moment he gunned down Brown - minutes after the 'aggressive' teenager taunted him by saying: 'You're too much of a bugger*** p***y to shoot me'.
Wilson said he felt overpowered by Brown, who weighed 289 lbs and stood at 6ft 5. Wilson, by comparison, is 210 lbs and 6ft 4.
'When I grabbed him, the only way I can describe it is I felt like a five-year-old holding Hulk Hogan.'
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"The officer said he was completely calm when he stopped Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson as they walked in a Ferguson street and told them: ‘Hey guys, why don’t you walk on the sidewalk?’
The pair then replied they were nearly home, prompting Wilson to say: ‘Okay, but what’s wrong with the sidewalk?’. In a fit of anger, Johnson then reportedly responded: ‘bugger what you have to say’.
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"Wilson drove off and then drove back to speak to them, at which point Brown suddenly punched him and they got into a struggle as he tried to get out of his police SUV, the testimony said.
The officer said he reached for his gun and said: ‘Stop I’m going to shoot’. In response, Brown told him: ‘You’re too much of a bugger*** p**** to shoot me’.
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[i]"Recalling the moment he killed Brown, Wilson said: 'I was yelling at him to stop and get on the ground. He kept running and then he stopped in this area somewhere.
'When he stopped he turned, looked at me, made a grunting noise and had the most intense aggressive face I’ve ever seen on a person.
'When he looked at me he then did like the hop...you know when people do to start running. And he started running at me. During his first stride he took his right hand and put it under his shirt and into his waistband.
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"'And I ordered him to stop and get on the ground again. He didn’t.
'I fired, a, multiple shots. After I fired the multiple shots I paused for a second, yelled at him to get on the ground again, he was still in the same state.
'Still charging hands, still in his waistband, still hadn’t slowed down. I fired another set of shots. Same thing, still running at me, hadn’t slowed down, hands still in his waistband.
'He gets about eight to ten feet away, he’s still coming at me in the same way. One of those, however many of them, hit him in the head, and he went down right there.
'When he went down his hand was still under his, his right hand was still under his body, looked like it was still in his waistband. I never touched him.'
During a later part of the interview, Wilson went over the final moments again and described Brown as ‘very aggressive’.
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"He said: ‘I don’t really know how to describe it. Um, he turns, I look at his face. It was just like intense. It was. I’ve never seen anybody look like that, for lack of a better words, crazy.
'It was very aggravated, um, aggressive, hostile. You could tell he was lookin’ through ya. There was nothing he was seeing.’
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