Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed unarmed teen Michael Brown in August, setting off months of protests, will likely never be a law enforcement officer again, his lawyer said in an interview with NBC station KSDK.
“Realistically speaking, Darren will never be a police officer again, and he understands that,” attorney Jim Towey said. “Going forward it will be school, and trying to carve out a new niche, new career, for he and his family.”
There were violent protests this week in the St. Louis suburb after a grand jury declined to indict Wilson in Brown’s death on Aug. 9 …
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