The white police officer who shot black teenager
Michael Brown dead has resigned, nearly four
months after the confrontation that prompted
protests in the US city of St Louis and across the
country.
Darren Wilson, 28, had been on administrative
leave since the August 9 shooting .
Darren Wilson' s resignation has been widely
anticipated.
Still , it ' s likely that those in Ferguson who 've been
angered that Wilson wasn ' t indicted will welcome
his resignation.
It ' s almost impossible to imagine him as a police
officer patrolling a community that believes he ' s
guilty of at least the wrongful death of Michael
Brown.
Civil rights activists have been calling for protests
to focus now on changes in Missouri state law to
restrict the use of deadly force by police and to
explicitly outlaw racial profiling by officers .
That' s what marchers are calling for as they make
their way 190 km from Ferguson to the state
capital Jefferson city over the next week.
Find his statement through his lawyer below:
"I, Darren Wilson, hereby resign my commission as
a police officer with the City of Ferguson effective
immediately, " the Dispatch newspaper quoted
Wison' s resignation letter as saying on its website .
"I have been told that my continued employment
may put the residents and police officers of the
city of Ferguson at risk, which is a circumstance
that I cannot allow .
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