![]() ![]() The first time I pulled up to the curb, Wilson, who is six feet four and weighs two hundred and fifteen pounds, immediately stepped outside, wearing a hat and sunglasses. This March, I spent several days at his home. Wilson has tried, with some success, to block it out. ![]() For many Americans, this discussion, though painful, has been essential. During the past year, a series of police killings of African-Americans across the country has inspired grief, outrage, protest, and acrimonious debate. Because of such precautions, Wilson has been leading a very quiet life. He and his wife, Barb, who is thirty-seven, and also a former Ferguson cop, rarely linger in the front yard. Although Wilson recently bought the house, his name is not on the deed, and only a few friends know where he lives. Wilson, who is twenty-nine, started receiving death threats not long after the incident, in which Brown was killed in the street shortly after robbing a convenience store. Most of the nearby houses are clad in vinyl siding there are no sidewalks, and few cars around. Photograph by Ryan Pflugerĭarren Wilson, the former police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, an eighteen-year-old African-American, in Ferguson, Missouri, has been living for several months on a nondescript dead-end street on the outskirts of St. He hasn’t read the Justice Department’s report on systemic racism in Ferguson. Wilson has been living for several months on a nondescript street on the outskirts of St. ![]()
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