Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced today that he is relieving St. Louis County law enforcement from policing the ongoing protests in the town of Ferguson, Missouri, placing the Highway Patrol in charge instead.
“We’ve all been deeply troubled by this crisis,” Nixon said, adding that the current crisis unfolding in the state “is not what Missouri is about.” He stated that Ferguson looks “like a war zone” lately, and added, “We need to rebuilt the trust that’s been lost” in the wake of Brown’s death and the use of police force on demonstrators.
The highly militarized police used rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas and sonic weapons even on peaceful protesters. They also went so far as to rough up and arrested 2 reporters, shoot another with rubber bullets, gas yet other press and confiscate cameras.
Nixon added that the Highway Patrol’s involvement will not affect the responsibility of those involved in conducting investigations into the killing of Brown and the protests that have taken place since his death. He confirmed that the Department of Justice is conducting a parallel investigation.
Nixon also touched on the controversy surrounding police refusal to identify the officer involved in Brown’s death. In response to a question at the press conference, Nixon said the official’s name should be released as “expeditiously as possible.”
Previously, Rep Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) told Bloomberg News on Thursday morning that Gov. Jay Nixon, also a Democrat, had confirmed to him that county police will be pulled from their duties in Ferguson.
On Wednesday evening, protests in Ferguson for the fourth straight day appeared to resemble a war zone when militarized police began firing tear gas and non-lethal ammunition into the streets towards private residences. Two journalists, one from Washington Post and another from Huffington Post, were briefly detained while on assignment.
“The gov. just called me and he’s on his way to St. Louis now to announce he’s taking St. Louis County police out of the situation,” Rep. Clay told Derek Wallbank, a reporter for Bloomberg, early Thursday.
Earlier that afternoon, US President Barack Obama said during a press conference that he has spoken with Gov. Nixon and Attorney General Eric Holder, and had instructed federal officials to do everything they could to investigate Brown’s death and keep the situation in Ferguson calm. According to NewsChannel 5, the Justice Department will also be spending special prosecutors to Ferguson to assist in the investigation.
Source: rt.com
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TIME AMERICA SEES MORE JOBS. LESS POLICE
TIME SCHOOLS LOOK NICER THAN THE COURT HOUSES
TIME MONOPOLY ORGANIZATIONS AND THE RICH LEARN THERE PLACE
LAST TIME I HAD A RICH ASS HOLE TELL ME I BETTER LEARN MY PLACE IN LIFE. I JUST REPLYED
YOU BETTER PRAY THAT I DONT WORK FOR A COMPANY THAT MAINTAINS YOUR POOL, PLUMBING, YARDS, ROOF,
OR THE COMPANY YOU OWN!!!’
YEAH THAT MUTHER $#%&!@*ER SHUT UP AND LEARNED HIS PLACE….
WITH OUT US THERE LAZY GOOD FOR NOTHING SORY ASS DRUG ADDICTS. CONTROL FREAKS ETC
$#%&!@* YOU CHRIS AWOL
EVERY DAY AS A WHITE GUY I HAVE TO WATCH MY BACK FOR POLICE AND CRIMINALS
IM NOT PROTECTED FROM OR BY EITHER ONE
PS.
MARIJUANA IS NOT A CRIME…
HOW EVER THE POLICE STATE IS
GET BACK TO WORK LIKE A GOOD SLAVE CHRIS
simple solution: disband the “county police” aka “brown shirts” and establish a normal police force using the TV show The Andy Griffith Show (“Mayberry’s Sheriff Office”) and the characters “Sheriff Andy Taylor” and “Deputy Barney Fife” as a guide… i think that will work much better!
no , you need to rebuild your police department, , make them servants, not law brakers, or dictators, screen your police officers, send them to school, teach them to be servants, and hold them accountable, teach them they are not rulers, or above citizens, we dont need vigilanties runing our cities, we dont need thugs over our citizens, officers like yours needs to not be police officers.
jay nixon, you should be ran out of office.
Wait! Let me get this straight. They burn down gas stations, loot stores and throw fire bombs at cops. Then he think the cops are over reacting to what is happening? WTF? Oh guess it will be better to let these animals destroy all these hard working innocent people’s lives. Than to shoot a few and arrest the rest of the crimbals doing this. Since when did a protest give you the right to destroy private property?
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Jay Nixon is an asshat that is squatting in the capitol so he can be BO’s puppet. If the Brown boy was so innocent why was he caught on tape robbing a store? Jay Nixon needs to be right there with the MHP and see how things really are. If you act like an animal expect to be treated like one.
THE ONES WHO DID IT SHOULD PAY
The government trolls are coming out strong on this one. I have serious doubts about the cop’s story, but it really doesn’t matter. He was unarmed. He was shot multiple times….in the back. All you trolls can color it any way you want, it was still murder.