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If rioting involves businesses being looted and burned, our brothers and sisters in the big red trucks will be summoned — and any FD or EMS response in the hot zone will require a dedicated police presence to protect the responders
Gov. Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard in advance of a grand jury decision on Officer Darren Wilson
Investigation has found that a state police officer was on duty while participating in the video shoot and that the models brandished three state-owned guns
Public records show that Gov. Jay Nixon received thousands of phone calls and hundreds of emails, letters and faxes from people throughout Mo. and the world in the weeks after the Aug. 9 shooting
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Questions have been raised about whether the governor should have responded faster to an increasingly chaotic and racially tense situation
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The streets of Ferguson were peaceful for another night, as protests and tensions subsided in the St. Louis suburb
Since the guard’s arrival Monday, flare-ups in the small section of town that had been the center of unrest have begun to subside
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Although the majority of those arrested are Missourians, just seven live in the St. Louis suburb where the shooting occurred
Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to pay $5M to the family of an unarmed, disabled man who was killed by police in a shooting captured on TV
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder arrived in Ferguson Wednesday to meet with federal investigators
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Police originally said 31 were arrested, but St. Louis County spokeswoman Candace Jarrett on Tuesday said 57 people were booked at the county jail alone
Presence of armed militia members working on their own has added one more variable to an already complex situation
Missouri’s governor on Monday ordered the National Guard to a St. Louis suburb convulsed by protests over a fatal police shooting
Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that sending troops to the border will defend not just his home state but the entire nation from “narco-terrorists”
The Guard troops will be armed for self-defense and trained to avoid confrontation with border crossers as they help back up federal border agents
Gov. Jerry Brown took a dig at Texas’ decision to deploy National Guard troops to the border, saying that “wiser minds will prevail”
Since mid-June, Texas already has been paying an additional $1.3M per week to put more troopers and game wardens in South Texas
Sheriff Chuck Jenkins said a “full deployment of military resources” to the U.S.-Mexico border is needed to address the illegal-immigration issues he witnessed
Sheriffs said they have not been consulted and question the wisdom of sending military personnel who are not authorized to stop, question or arrest anyone
