Ferguson shooting: Wilson confident federal probe will 'clear him too'

The Ferguson police officer who was absolved by a Missouri grand jury in the killing of an unarmed black teenager has said that he is confident that a federal criminal probe into the incident will find "nothing" and will clear him too.

Officer Darren Wilson said that he did not carry any racial bias when he shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson on August 9. He also added that he had never been accused of acting in a "racist manner" in his entire career as a police officer, reported ABC News.

Wilson said that he was doing his job and following his training when the "training took over."

The United States Justice Department is now conducting two investigations into the incident.

A criminal investigation will try to ascertain if the cop used "unreasonable force" and intentionally violated Brown's civil rights when he fatally shot the teenager. Wilson's past records will also be analysed but "racial animus" is not something that the federal prosecutors will have to prove in order to bring charges against him, William Yeomans, a former civil rights prosecutor at the Justice Department said.

The second probe will broadly look into whether the Ferguson police department has routinely engaged in a "pattern or practice" of "unlawful and discriminatory policing.