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After Violent Night in Ferguson, State Triples National Guard Presence
New York Times ^ | November 25, 2014 | MONICA DAVEY and MANNY FERNANDEZ

Posted on 11/25/2014 6:44:39 PM PST by Second Amendment First

Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri said on Tuesday that he would triple the number of National Guard troops in this suburban St. Louis city and broadly expand their role in keeping the peace, after a night of arson, looting and rampaging demonstrators showed that weeks of preparation for a grand jury decision in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown had failed to prevent violence.

In Washington, St. Louis and Ferguson itself, an array of public officials, community leaders and clergy were deeply critical of one another as they sought to explain how protests over the grand jury’s decision not to indict the white police officer in the shooting had spun further out of control than the unrest that followed the death in August of Mr. Brown, who was black.

Michael Brown Sr. at a news conference Tuesday, the day after it was announced that a grand jury had decided that Darren Wilson, the officer who fatally shot his son, would not face any charges.Mixed Motives Seen in Prosecutor’s Decision to Release Ferguson Grand Jury MaterialsNOV. 25, 2014 Amid Violence, Ferguson Police React With Restraint Not Shown After August KillingNOV. 25, 2014 video Michael Brown’s Mother ReactsNOV. 25, 2014 “What they’ve gone through is unacceptable,” Mr. Nixon said, appearing frustrated at a news conference in St. Louis as business owners along two commercial strips in Ferguson began sweeping up broken glass and trying to assess losses. One of the streets, West Florissant Avenue, a main thoroughfare not far from where the shooting took place, was still smoky on Tuesday and cordoned off by police.

Officials had been unwilling to provide details about the number of troops when Mr. Nixon first called up the Missouri National Guard last week in advance of the grand jury announcement

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: boomshackalaka; ferguson; gentlegiant; gonetosoon; jaynixon; kenyanbornmuzzie; missouri; nationalguard; riots; waronterror
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To: Secret Agent Man
Holder on the DOJ website has a video where he says he has given instructions for law enforcement to protect protesters and change their rules of engagement so they do not confront the protesters. He is essentially telling them it is open season to loot and destroy.
41 posted on 11/25/2014 7:37:14 PM PST by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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To: Gabrial

Does this mean the comment “the Tea Party couldn’t demonstrate because they couldn’t get a permit” no longer applies? Yippeeeee!


42 posted on 11/25/2014 7:41:04 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Secret Agent Man; Second Amendment First

“...as many sitting around tonite not helping the cops?...”

So what exactly are they doing? Containing the cannibals in their own neighborhood, basically?

One wonders exactly what the NG would do if the morons started trying to get to the white neighborhoods. Are they under orders not to engage?

Was watching a Fox news feed last night; they said over 150 shots were fired at the police - along with being pelted by “D”-cell batteries, rocks, bricks, bottles, etc.


43 posted on 11/25/2014 7:43:58 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Didn’t see a single one on the first night.

What’s three times zero? I forget.


44 posted on 11/25/2014 7:46:59 PM PST by DoughtyOne (GOP. GOPe. GOPeGads! GOPeWWWWWWWWWWWWW...)
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To: Second Amendment First

it is all politics. He didn’t send them in until the next morning AFTER the RIOT. here it is. I’m going to send in the National Guard. Pleases white voters , yeah, get then in there. Then sends them in the next day, appeases black rioters and no consequence to them. Black voters like that. This Nixon is the every day sleazy Democrat, Politician. too little too late is the Obama plan on just about everything.


45 posted on 11/25/2014 7:48:33 PM PST by fish hawk (no tyrant can remain in power without the consent and cooperation of his victims.)
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To: Second Amendment First

3 x 0= 0

CC


46 posted on 11/25/2014 7:50:31 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Tagline out of order.)
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To: NFHale

i think it’s more showing the governor’s ineptness since he controls them.


47 posted on 11/25/2014 7:51:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

This Nixon may be the really inept Nixon, but will MO figure it out?


48 posted on 11/25/2014 7:59:53 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

RE Inept Governor:

Well, of course he’s inept - he’s a Democrat; that’s par for the course.

But what exactly is the NG’s job there?


49 posted on 11/25/2014 8:08:09 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“Ten percent of nothing is, let me do the math here, nothing into nothing, carry the nothin’... “


50 posted on 11/25/2014 8:11:50 PM PST by thulldud (Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
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To: Second Amendment First
America needs to hear a little more straight talk like this from the chief of police in Milwaukee.
51 posted on 11/25/2014 8:12:32 PM PST by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: Second Amendment First

Someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo.
I do believe it, I do believe it’s true.


52 posted on 11/25/2014 8:25:49 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Second Amendment First

If she plays it wrong, the Lt. Gov. (Peter Kinder) will smash her.


53 posted on 11/25/2014 8:26:49 PM PST by Paul R. (Leftists desire to control everything; In the end they invariably control nothing worth a damn.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

They’re there as a show of force... They are not aloud to assist or a combat role..... Thanks to Obama.


54 posted on 11/25/2014 8:36:05 PM PST by baddog 219
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To: Second Amendment First

Too little, too late.

Gov. Jay Nixon should resign.


55 posted on 11/25/2014 8:40:39 PM PST by Gator113 ( Impeach. Remove from office. Arrest. Convict. Imprison for life.)
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To: Alissa

I doubt it.

They are basically on an undeclared strike.

You’re gong to criticize us ? Then we will let in burn.


56 posted on 11/25/2014 9:57:21 PM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: tumblindice

huhm..


57 posted on 11/25/2014 10:35:53 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: Second Amendment First

“Michael Brown Sr. at a news conference Tuesday...”

Blah! Here’s communication that’s much more interesting -

COCKROACHES ADMIT THEY WILL MISS HUMANITY

http://www.uncoveror.com/cockroaches.htm


58 posted on 11/26/2014 6:33:49 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Second Amendment First

Expecting that pic of the barn with the open door...


59 posted on 11/26/2014 11:17:42 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Alissa

The White House is deeply involved in this, IMO. This way, 0bama can order all kinds of federal dollars to help the poor and downtrodden


60 posted on 11/27/2014 9:43:59 AM PST by FLCowboy, (Can Hillary save the Clinton magic for Chelsea?)
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