Missouri Governor Says National Guard Is Still Option in Ferguson [View all]

[KingCharlemagne]

Source: New York Times

Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday that the Missouri National Guard was part of a multiforce contingency plan by law enforcement authorities to avert violence as the region around St. Louis awaited a grand jury’s return in the death of Michael Brown three months ago.

“The Guard will be available when we determine it is necessary to support local law enforcement,” Mr. Nixon announced in a news conference at a state highway patrol headquarters here, standing beside law enforcement leaders from the St. Louis area. “Quite simply, we must and will be fully prepared.”

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“In the days immediately following Michael Brown’s death, peaceful protests were marred by senseless acts of violence and destruction,” he [Nixon] said. “Vandals smashed the windows of small businesses. Criminals looted and set fire to stores. Gunshots and Molotov cocktails endangered citizens exercising their First Amendment rights and law enforcement attempting to maintain peace. That ugliness was not representative of Missouri, and it cannot be repeated.”

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To that end, three large police agencies in the area — the St. Louis County police, the St. Louis city police and the Missouri State Highway patrol — will operate under a unified command system. Leaders from all of them appeared beside the governor on Tuesday afternoon, though police officers from the beleaguered Ferguson department were not seen there, nor was their role in the handling of possible protests mentioned.

~More at link~

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/us/missouri-governor-says-hes-prepared-to-use-national-guard-in-ferguson-again.html

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Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming, eh?

Notice how Gov. Nixon is buying the right-wing spin machine's BS about Molotov Cocktails (never documented by anyone in the non-Fox MSM)? Too bad Nixon couldn't have exercised the same authority over that stooge DA Bob McCulloch.