Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson has spoken publicly for the first time since he fatally shot Michael Brown. In an interview broadcast on ABC News, Wilson described how he shot Brown repeatedly because he feared for his life. He was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos.

George Stephanopoulos: “Is there anything you could have done differently that would have prevented that killing from taking place?”

Darren Wilson: “No.”

George Stephanopoulos: “Nothing?”

Darren Wilson: “No.”

George Stephanopoulos: “And you’re absolutely convinced, when you look through your heart and your mind, that if Michael Brown were white, this would have gone down in exactly the same way?”

Darren Wilson: “Yes.”

George Stephanopoulos: “No question?”

Darren Wilson: “No question.”

Stephanopoulos also asked Wilson whether the killing of Michael Brown would always haunt him.

Darren Wilson: “I don’t think it’s a haunting. It’s always going to be something that happened.”

George Stephanopoulos: “You are — you have a very clean conscience.”

Darren Wilson: “The reason I have a clean conscience is because I know I did my job right.”

In his testimony, released after the grand jury decision, Wilson compares Michael Brown to a “demon,” and says, “When I grabbed him, the only way I can describe it is I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan.”