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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon\u2019s declaration of a \u201cstate of emergency\u201d in Ferguson is bad news in many ways, but I\u2019ve been struggling with finding a way to express my outrage. Then, yesterday, someone did it for me.<\/p>\n

In a short interview on CNN,<\/a> Ferguson activist Tory Russell\u2014one of the founders of Hands Up United\u2014said it all.<\/p>\n

Asked by CNN interviewer Brooke Baldwin for his response to Governor Nixon\u2019s state of emergency declaration, Russell said:<\/p>\n

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I live in one of the poorest zip codes in the state. I constantly live in a state of emergency. People\u2014black and brown bodies walking down the street\u2014I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a cause for a state of emergency.<\/p>\n

If you look at the unemployment rate in Missouri and St. Louis\u2014that\u2019s a state of emergency. If you look at homeless veterans who sleep at [St. Louis City] Mayor Slay\u2019s City Hall\u2014that\u2019s a state of emergency, not black and brown bodies hitting the floor and being chalked down or even chanting. I can\u2019t understand it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Note: In that last section, Russell was referring to a demonstration over the weekend during which protesters lay down in the street and had their bodies outlined with chalk, to symbolize black victims of police shootings.]<\/p>\n

Gov. Nixon\u2019s action is not only premature, it\u2019s downright inflammatory, and as Russell said so well, it\u2019s misdirected. And when asked why he did it and whether he\u2019s the person who will be in charge and accountable for the consequences, Gov. Nixon couldn\u2019t even come up with a coherent explanation.<\/p>\n

To hear his babbling, incomprehensible, hem-and-haw backpedaling response to the simple question of \u201cwho\u2019s in charge here,\u201d listen to the sound bite below.<\/p>\n

Based on what they’ve just said, I\u2019ll take Tory Russell\u00a0 over Jay Nixon any day of the week.<\/p>\n

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