Gov. Nixon 'Deeply' Disagreed With Release of Surveillance Video

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Source: NBC

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said his office was unaware that a surveillance video allegedly showing Michael Brown stealing cigars before being shot and killed by a police officer would be released by local police — and he "deeply" disagreed with the decision to make the video public.

The release of the footage purportedly showing Michael Brown getting into a confrontation inside a convenience store "put the community, and quite frankly, the nation on alert again," Nixon said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.

Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson released the video Friday, sparking renewed outrage after a relatively calm Thursday night in Ferguson. Brown's family said police committed "character assassination" of the slain teen, and Jackson later said that the officer who shot and killed Brown did so without knowing he was a suspect in the taped robbery. Rioting and looting broke out overnight Friday as an apparent response to the video release, prompting Nixon to declare a state of emergency and issue a midnight curfew for Ferguson. Nixon said he thought the curfew "made a difference" on Saturday night, although police arrested seven people and used tear gas. A police car was fired on and one person was shot and is in critical condition, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Nixon calls on prosecutors to 'step up' investigation

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

1. "THUNDERSTRUCK"

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ‘Thunderstruck’ by Images of Ferguson Police

“I, all of us were thunderstruck by the pictures we saw,” Nixon told Martha Raddatz in an interview in Ferguson. “I mean, the over-militarization, the MRAPs rolling in, the guns pointed at kids in the street. All of that I think instead of ratcheting down brought emotion up.”

“We were unaware that they were going to release it and we certainly were not happy with that being released. Especially in the way that it was it appeared to, you know, cast dispersions on a young man that was gunned down in the street,” Nixon said.

[ChiciB1]

10. Did He Really Say "Dispersions?"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the word he should have used is Aspersions! Disperse & Asperse mean two different things! I won't bother giving the definitions, they're in the dictionary.

[7962]

13. You are correct.

[ChiciB1]

14. Thank You... Thought So And

I only graduated from high school! LOL! But, to be honest I was a typesetter for most of my working life. Proof readers make you learn "stuff" quickly!

I can't tell you the times I hear so called well educated people make some of the worst statements. But today we have texting and I guess I'm the one who has new "stuff" to learn. Not really. My kids hate my texts, they go on and on and on! Told them they can call me!

Still, I'm human and make mistakes too. Still he is a Governor!

[7962]

17. The most used mistake, I think, is confusing "affect" & "effect"

I've even heard the President mix them up!

And if I hear anyone use "irregardless", I go crazy. maybe we should just MAKE that a real word.

[ChiciB1]

18. Was Just Going To Comment On the Word Irregardless Myself!

Not a word actually.

[VanGoghRocks]

3. EXCEPT THERE WAS NO THEFT!!!! I repeat, Brown did not steal anything. And, if

Brown didn't steal anything, he would not have suspected that he was being stopped by Wilson for 'theft'. After all, why would he, since in his mind he hadn't stolen anything?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025400413

And they didn't get it 'all out at once.' It only took them six days. By any resonable person's definition, that's not 'at once.'

[VanGoghRocks]

5. Sigh. He didn't 'obviously' do anything. It has been suggested the clerk 'ran' after him

because the clerk was not allowed to sell tobacco to anyone under 18 and Brown perhaps did not have the right kind of ID with him.

BTW, he was only 'intimidating the store clerk' if the store clerk wasn't unlawfully detaining him.

You have a lot of catching up to do, it seems.

[indivisibleman]

7. Exactly!

There was no theft. There was no "strong arm robbery". The police didn't even take time to check out the facts.

[VanGoghRocks]

8. These people (police apologists for the most part) simply keep moving the goal posts. They don't

even have the decency to concede that there was no theft. Instead, now, it becomes 'assault'. I'm about done fighting to preserve Mr. Brown's reputation and good name. Way too much calumny, chicanery and knavery for my tastes.

[ChiciB1]

6. TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH YOU!

Not giving out the name of the OFFICER who shot him is even MORE suspect IMO! If people would draw a conclusion that the tape was "doctored" then what do you think they might think about the POWLICE Report??

You are making assumptions about this incident just as much as anyone else. The POWLICE are now taking on more heat each and every hour that goes by! NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING seems to have been done from the get-go when Brown was shot! Er, how long did he lay there?? And THREE different stories in ONE day, and days AFTER the incident a video was presented and yet the public is supposed to simply "take" the word of THAT POWLICE Captain???

What I believe is that they've gotten away with crap for so long they simply were doing POWLICE procedure as they always had in the past! If there's ANY justice left in America heads will roll. Until that time I remain seriously suspicious about this mess. And I have no doubt this is happening in so many other cities as I type! America has lost it's way, and maybe it's soul too!

And lest you think I'm a person of color, think again... I'm a white female who lives in Flor-EEE-Duh! And in a very "white" county!

[VanGoghRocks]

11. I'm right there with you, save that I'm a white male who lives in the Granola State (you know, nuts

and flakes of Cali-for-ni-eee.

About the only 'good' I've seen from this, aside from the heroic resistance by the masses in Ferguson, is Captain Johnson. The rest has all been dark, very dark and despairing.

[ChiciB1]

12. Well It Looks Like We "Done" Run The Feller Off!

Methinks we caught a troll!

[VanGoghRocks]

16. jeesh, I'm so naive :) I was responding to him in good faith, merely

suspecting he wasn't fully up to speed. I think he must have let his credentials show more openly in some other thread.

[ChiciB1]

19. Yeah, Tip Off Was His Post Count...

I see you don't have very many, but I saw your comments and it didn't make me suspicious. Whoever that was got attacked, then whoops.. name removed!

I can't swear on a bible, but removal of name is a clue.

[rickyhall]

9. I don't care if he did do something

You don't shoot an unarmed running man especially after he turns to surrender and you don't keep pumping bullets into him when he's down. Even if he's a mass murderer execution is not a cop's job. Not something Reed and Malloy would do. Killing suspected terrorists with hell fire missiles launched from a drone is also wrong in my book.

[Shoonra]

15. Governor's phony public reaction

I honestly think Gov. Nixon's supposed disapproval of release of the videotape of the shoplifting of some cigars is just a pretense, and that he's really glad that there is this tiny scrap of apparent evidence to deflate some of the aggressiveness of the Ferguson protesters. If Michael Brown seems less innocent then the cops seem less guilty.

Even so, a cop shooting to death (5 or 6 shots) a teenager for swiping a handful of smokes is extreme. It returns us to the bad old days of brutal policing of some 50 or more years ago.

[NickB79]

20. "A police car was fired on and one person was shot and is in critical condition, according to Misso"

Damn, I didn't hear anything about this in the press!