“From the very first days of the protests over the police shooting of an unarmed black man here, Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri has been accused of hitting the wrong notes at the wrong times,” the New York Times reports.
“But politicians and others in Missouri said they were not completely surprised by the governor’s handling of the situation in Ferguson. They said his regular approach to governing — a reliance on a tight circle of loyal advisers and an unwavering faith in well-established processes — had proved particularly ill suited to the challenges of Ferguson and a protest movement that views the established processes as fundamentally exclusive and unfair.”
“Mr. Nixon’s supporters say he has been faced with a crisis nearly impossible to handle to everyone’s satisfaction.”
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