--- Ron Johnson is the Missouri Highway Patrol captain who took over patrol in Ferguson Thursday night; Johnson, a Ferguson native, spoke and walked with protesters and supervised a force that presented itself much less aggressively than the quasi-military SWAT teams that had confronted residents on previous days. The result, by all accounts, was a significantly less tense evening. There were not any calls for service, we did not deploy any tear gas, we did not make any arrests, Johnson said when he met minutes ago with members of the media and local citizens. ... One questioner asked him a broad question about race relations and justice. The governor talked about old wounds, Johnson said. This is an old wound. Its time to stop saying its an old wound, and close it for good. Later he spoke about the future of the community: Yesterday we saw what it could be. We saw what it should be. And we saw what it will be.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:00:03 +0000
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