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Missouri is under a state of emergency tonight, and Governor Jay Nixon is supposed to make a statement at 6 p.m. Central Time. He has called out the National Guard (again) and the FBI has also issued a statement. Something's coming down.
Governor calls State Of Emergency. National Guard waiting. FBI giving warnings. KKK issuing threats.
What 'effing year is this?
#ferguson
— Elon James White (@elonjames) November 18, 2014Update: Not a speech, a conference call with media. Scroll down for quotes from reporters. It seems that Governor Nixon was mainly reading from his own press release.
Governer Nixon couldn't get his act together on this call. Reporters pressed and he ran from the issues. We'll post audio soon.
— Ferguson October (@fergusonoctober) November 18, 2014Gov. Jay Nixon speaking now. "Our hope and expectation in the coming weeks is that peace will prevail..." #ferguson
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) November 18, 2014The Gov. Nixon phone press conference is happening now. He's saying that he's going to announce #Ferguson Commission tomorrow.
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 18, 2014The guns & tanks are back in #Ferguson.
The Governor steps up rhetoric about “protecting constitutional rights.”
https://t.co/l4EX9gimKl
— Shawn Carrié (@shawncarrie) November 18, 2014"The actions that we took today after based on what the STL Prosecutor said publicly." -
Gov. Nixon #Ferguson
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 18, 2014@GovJayNixon says Mo Highway Patrol will take over duties of Ferguson police department in cases of protesting.
— Allison Blood (@AllisonBlood) November 18, 2014Gov. Nixon notes that he has called the National Guard before twice in preemption: snow storm and ice storm. #Ferguson
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 18, 2014Gov. Nixon literally reading out the press release his office distributed four hours ago. So don't get too excited #Ferguson
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) November 18, 2014Q:How many Guard Troops and where will they be? Nixon: I won't get into operational details.
— Allison Blood (@AllisonBlood) November 18, 2014Just asked Gov. Nixon when he expects grand jury decision. Will it be before "late" November? Short version: He didn't answer. #Ferguson
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) November 18, 2014Gov. Jay Nixon: “I’ll do anything to prevent violence in Ferguson. Anything except calling for laws against police murdering black people.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 18, 2014There are 1,500 American forces in Iraq. And there are 1,000 American police on standby in #Ferguson. Think on that.
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 13, 2014101 days. 3 dead boys. 4 free white male officers. 1,000 officers ready. 1 national guard mobilized. 1 incompetent governor. #Ferguson
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 18, 2014As #Ferguson protests to date have been 99% peaceful, they should be called “demonstrations” not “riots.”
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) November 17, 2014Too much to ask that just 1 authority figure at a Ferguson press conference connect with the community's pain that is causing the protests?
— Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) November 17, 2014Jay Nixon bobbles a simple question of whether he in charge and he stumbles all over the place. I smell fish and it ain't Friday. #Ferguson
— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) November 18, 2014Man, that was a finely diced word salad Gov. Nixon spewed right there.
— Devin (@devbost) November 18, 2014State of emergency declared & National Guard activated ahead of #Ferguson grand jury decision http://t.co/UlW2dLNAzP pic.twitter.com/PKTBsWyHkf
— BBC News US (@BBCNewsUS) November 17, 2014Mayor: National Guard troops to be sent to St. Louis area before Ferguson grand jury decision. http://t.co/tN8YNlOaBF
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) November 17, 2014Exclusive: FBI bulletin: Violent protesters, cyberattacks possible after Ferguson decision: http://t.co/d1Kp4xykDm pic.twitter.com/UBOHwmXTYj
— ABC News (@ABC) November 18, 2014NEW: Exclusive: FBI bulletin warns Ferguson decision "will likely" lead to violence by extremist protesters: http://t.co/d1Kp4xykDm
— ABC News (@ABC) November 17, 2014So to put it in language a cop can understand, if you don't want trolls buying pizzas with your Credit Card data - DO NOT HURT PROTESTERS.
— Operation Ferguson (@OpFerguson) November 18, 2014Brown family lawyer: Gov. Nixon is preparing for war, not peace, in #Ferguson http://t.co/ba7ubuX3MW #TheLead
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) November 17, 2014How is there a State of Emergency ALREADY?! Y'all, you know this ain't right. This is a set up. #Ferguson
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 17, 2014And if you don't think today's State of Emergency isn't about race, then you don't understand America. #Ferguson
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 17, 2014It must be all kinds of illegal to share a jury decision among high-level gov+military & call in National Guard before it's even announced.
— Shawn Carrié (@shawncarrie) November 18, 2014