One tweet captures the problem with Missouri’s state of emergency
The August shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown launched months of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, with more likely ahead. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) declared a state of emergency Monday in advance of the protests that will likely erupt upon the grand jury’s announcement, expected any day now, on whether to indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson for the 18-year-old’s death.
But the state of emergency belies a troubling logic in how law enforcement has approached the unrest in the small Missouri suburb, as St. Louis Alderman Antonio French tweeted Monday.