Posted on 07/13/2016 11:50:27 AM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Before August 9, 2014, Jay Nixon was an unfamiliar name. The Democratic governor of Missouri for five years, before that its attorney general for 16 years, had managed to govern far from the scorching rays of the national media limelight, and in doing so he accrued a not-unimpressive résumé in the Show Me State. Then 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo., and Governor Nixon found himself in the national spotlight — to which he has responded with something less than aplomb.
Two days after the shooting, Nixon asked the Department of Justice independently to investigate Brown’s death, and the next day he spoke on the subject at a meeting of civic and faith leaders in North St. Louis County. But not until August 14 did Nixon arrive in Ferguson — prompted, critics contend, only by the national media attention that was by then focused on the St. Louis suburb. Nights of riots, the appearance of Al Sharpton, and questions about the military-style law enforcement finally occasioned this remark: “If people got things to say, they’ll say them, and if people from the news media want to cover stuff and take pictures of things, they ought to do it. We live in a free country.” Not exactly “I Have a Dream.”
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Why are you posting an article that is almost 2 year old?
To show the effects of Black Lives Matter. It can destroy people’s careers. It did to Jay Nixon, a Democrat. It could ruin the core of the country.
Nixon was rotten long before BLM came along.
While I’ll agree they played a role, but he also played a role as well. Black Lives Matter by its very design and conception has the ruination of this country as its goal.
He was probably going to be Hillary’s VP, before the Ferguson saga. He is white, male, Southern.
Nixon has been a dirtbag for a long time.
Just another liberal hypocrite
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