Darren Wilson's Side of the Story

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by sheltiedave

If Wilson had followed the St. Louis Police Academy training for this type of incident, without backup, he would have pulled back and maintained a ten to fifteen foot "safe" distance the entire time, as much as practicable. But of course, he didn't attend the St. Louis Police Academy, because he was not accepted.

Or, since he didn't have the advantage of that training he could have, as an alternative, used common sense, but he missed out on that too.