By C1 Staff
RALEIGH — A Ferguson corrections officer described feeling helpless during last Monday’s riots after officer Darren Wilson was not indicted for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
ABC News reports that the officer, who did not want to be identified, works to bring arrestees to the jail. He said the last few months have been stressful, and even more so in the past week.
In recent months, he’s been helping to police protests.
“It was uncontrollable, it was chaos,” he said. “It’s almost like there’s no way of stopping it. It’s like an avalanche.”
He never imagined the riots would get so bad.
“You see people running everywhere,” he said. “You could hear shots. I don’t know if they were shots being fired from a gun or if it was shots from police. I don’t know how was shooting. It was so dark, you can’t see too much of anything.”
He said he wished the announcement of whether or not Wilson would have been indicted had been made earlier in the day.
“At nighttime, you could hardly see. You couldn’t tell who was throwing things from which way. IT was just chaos. It was hard to work through.”
Though the protests have grown more peaceful, the officer still feels the city is unstable.