(MENAFN- The Peninsula) To police officer Darren Wilson, Michael Brown didn't look so much like an unarmed black teenager as a "demon" with a box of stolen cigarillos who was about to kill him.
Brown, Wilson told the grand jury that Monday decided not to indict him in the 18-year-old African-American's shooting death, "had the most intense aggressive face."
"The only way I can describe it, it looks like a demon, that's how angry he looked," the white 28-year-old Ferguson, Missouri police officer told investigators.
Wilson's first-person account, disputed by others, makes up 85 of the 4,799 pages of testimony released against the backdrop of overnight violence in the St Louis suburb. It represents the first time that his version of what happened on Canfield Drive at noon hour on a hot, sunny Saturday has become public.
Wilson was half-way through a 12-hour shift when he responded to a "laid-back" call about a sick baby at an apartment complex on the quiet residential street.
Over the radio, he overheard a call about the theft of a box of cigarillos from a nearby convenience store. He didn't immediately take much notice of it.
Getting back into the seat of his Chevrolet Tahoe SUV marked patrol car, Wilson noticed two young men walking single file down the middle of Canfield Drive.
One was Michael "Big Mike" Brown, in shorts and bright yellow shin socks. The other was his friend Dorian Johnson.
From his SUV window, Wilson suggested the pair get onto the sidewalk. Johnson said they were close to their destination. Brown added: "**** what you have to say."
"When he said that, it drew my attention totally to Brown," said Wilson, who at that moment noticed Brown holding a box of cigarillos. Brown and Johnson kept walking. Wilson radioed for back-up, shifted his car in reverse and veered it around the two young men, blocking
their path. Wilson testified that he began opening his car door, only for Brown to slam it shut, saying: "What the **** are you going to do about it."
"I then looked at him and told him to get back, and he was just staring at me, almost like to intimidate me or to overpower me," Wilson recalled.
Wilson tried opening the door again, telling Brown: "Get the **** back." Instead, he alleged, Brown - as tall as Wilson, but heavier at 290 pounds - punched him twice in the face.
"I felt that another one of those punches in my face could knock me out or worse... the third one could be fatal if he hit me right."
"So the only other option I thought I had was my gun," a holstered Sig Sauer P229 .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol, he testified.
"I drew my gun (and) said, 'Get back or I'm going to shoot you'. He immediately grabs my gun and says, 'You are too much of a ***** to shoot me'."
Brown lunged through the car window at the firearm. In the ensuing struggle, Wilson pulled the trigger twice - but the gun did not fire. The third time, a bullet pierced the door panel, sending a piece of glass into Wilson's hand. Brown stepped back. It was at that point that he looked to Wilson like a "demon."
Another misfire, then the gun went off again.
Brown then started running away. Wilson got out of the car to pursue Brown on foot.
According to Wilson, Brown stopped and turned around. Wilson repeatedly told him to drop onto the ground, but instead, he claimed, the youth began rushing at him.
Wilson fired "a series of shots" at Brown, who "looked like he was almost bulking up to run through the shots, like it was making him mad that I'm shooting at him."
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