After declaring a state of emergency in anticipation of a grand jury decision on a police officer shooting, TPM notes Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) couldn’t give a straight answer to the question, “Does the buck ultimately stop with you?”
Said Nixon: “I mean, you know… our goal here is to, you know, keep the peace and allow folks’ voices to be heard. In that balance, I’m attempting, you know, I am using the resources we have to martial, to be predictable for both those pillars.”
He added: “I don’t, you know, I’m more, I just will have to say I don’t spend a tremendous amount of time personalizing this vis a vis me.”
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