Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Officer Wilson: Michael Brown Was Powerful like Hulk Hogan, Intensively Aggresive, Gunting, Looked Like a Demon

Wilson: "I felt like a 5 year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan."

"Hulk Hogan. That's just how big he felt and how small I felt just from grasping his arm."

"I drew my gun... He immediately grabs my gun and says 'you are too much of a pussy to shoot me',"

"He...grabs my gun...and then he twists it and digs it down into my hip."

"Those punches in my face could knock me out or worse...the third one could be fatal."

"He looked at me...and had the most intense aggressive face. The only way I can describe it, it looks like a demon."

"It looks like a demon, that's how angry he looked."

"I tell him get on the ground, get on the ground."

"He turns, and when he looked at me, he made like a grunting, like aggravated sound..."

"He turns and he's coming back toward me...he kind of does a stutter step to start running."

"The first step, his first stride coming back towards me."

"As he is coming towards me, I tell, keep telling him get on the ground. He doesn't. I shoot a series of shots."

"I know I hit him at least once because I saw his body kind of jerk."

"He's still coming at me, he hadn't slowed down...I start backpedaling again, I tell him get on the ground.. he doesn't"

"I shoot another round of shots. I don't recall if it hit him every time..at least once because he flinched again."

"At this point it looked like he was almost bulking up to run through the shots... like it was making him mad that I'm shooting at him. And the face that he had was looking straight through me... like I wasn't even there, I wasn't even anything in his way."

"Well, he keeps coming after me... gets about 8 to 10 feet away."

"I know if he reaches me, he'll kill me."

"I remember looking at my sites and firing, all I see is his head and that's what I shot" 

"the demeanor on his face went blank, the aggression was gone... the threat was stopped."

"His whole reaction to the whole thing was something I've never seen"

"Whenever [my gun] was visible to him, he then took complete control of it.

"Whenever it was displayed to him, he did take complete control."

"He had complete control of that weapon at that time."

Q: How many minutes from when you saw them walking in the street until Michael Brown was dead?

Wilson: "less than one minute"

Wilson on the community: "It is just not a very well-liked community."

Q: "Were you pretty much on high alert being in that community by yourself?"

A: "Yes"

Wilson: "That's not an area where you can take anything really lightly. Like I said, it is a hostile environment."

Monday, May 26, 2014

Rare Photos from Allied Invasion of Southern France in WWII

Life Magazine publishes little-seen photographs from the Allied invasion of southern France  in 1944. 

Dale Rooks took the pictures of U.S. troops in Marseilles, Toulon and other places in the region.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014