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Posted: 11/25/2014 6:43 pm EST Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson opened up for the first time in an  interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos , part of which aired Tuesday evening, less than 24 hours after it was announced a grand jury  would not indict  him for the death of Michael Brown. Wilson said there was "no way" Brown put his hands up before Wilson fired his weapon, as some witnesses have described. Wilson said he thought, "he will kill me if he gets to me" when he saw Brown come toward him. Wilson: “When he stopped, he turned and faced me, and as he does that his right hand immediately goes into his waistband, and his left hand is a fist at his side, and he starts charging me.” Stephanopoulos: “What did you think when you saw that?” Wilson: “I didn’t know, I mean, my initial thought was, is there a weapon in there?” Stephanopoulos: “Even though he hadn’t pulled something out earlier when he was confronting you.” Wilson: “Yeah, i...

The Huffington Post  | By Sebastian Murdock Email Posted: 11/21/2014 1:32 pm EST  An Ohio man convicted of raping a 5-year-old girl blamed the victim for his crime during his sentencing. Clifford Taylor, a 51-year-old former research scientist, was given the  maximum sentence of 22 years  on Nov. 12, the News-Herald reported. Clifford Taylor In October, Taylor admitted in court to  molesting his girlfriend's daughter  while baby-sitting her sometime between May and July of last year, according to  Cleveland.com . The child later told her mother, who went to authorities. Taylor was convicted on two counts of rape. During his sentencing, Taylor blamed his defense lawyer for suggesting the plea deal he had earlier agreed to take. “I was threatened with mental incompetence," Taylor said of his lawyer. "He threatened me, saying there was some reason I wasn’t thinking properly.” Judge Eugene A. Lucci wasn't buying the excuse, and explained t...

 Posted: 11/21/2014 11:46 am EST  The fatal police shooting of an unarmed man in Brooklyn Thursday night appears to have been an "unfortunate tragedy," New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said Friday. Akai Burley was unarmed when  he was fatally shot. The victim, Akai Gurley, 28, had spent the evening at his girlfriend’s apartment inside the Louis Pink housing projects, Bratton told reporters at a press conference. The couple left the seventh floor apartment around 11:15 p.m. and tried to take an elevator down to the bottom floor. When the elevator wouldn’t work, they entered the stairwell. Two officers, meanwhile, were conducting a vertical patrol -- also known as a top to bottom patrol -- inside the building. Upon entering the "dark" stairwell on the eighth floor, Bratton said, Officer Peter Liang drew his gun and flashlight as a safety precaution. That's when Gurley and his girlfriend --  identified by the New York Daily News as Melis...