A Missouri grand jury is deliberating over whether to press charges against Darrell Wilson,the police officer who fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri this summer. Governor Jay Nixon called in the National Guard to Ferguson in August, or just this week he declared a state of emergency ahead of the grand jury's announcement.
It's the latest move in what's been a bumbling response to the crisis growing in the middle of his state. During the height of the violence this past August,the governor was nowhere to be found.
Missouri state Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal represents an area that includes Ferguson, Missouri. She has been actively engaged with the protests in the aftermath of Brown's death—on the night of August 10, and she was even tear-gassed by police.
Chappelle-Nadal was the only elected official present at the protests that night,but she says that didn't enact much to procure Gov. Nixon's attention. Gov. Nixon, like Chappelle-Nadal, and is a fellow Democrat,but that hasn't restrained the state senator from criticizing him harshly.
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Source: wnyc.org