Showing posts with label Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson. Show all posts
Saturday, August 16, 2014
New Top Cop Unhappy With Ferguson Chief's Remarks
By NBC News, Aug. 15, 2014, Nbcnews.com
The Highway Patrol captain appointed to oversee security in Ferguson, Missouri, suggested Friday that the city's police chief should have been more open in a news conference that lawyers for the family of slain teenager Michael Brown characterized as "character assassination."
"I will be talking to the chief," Capt. Ron Johnson, whom Missouri's governor put in charge in Ferguson on Thursday, told reporters Friday. His remarks came after Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson released security video and photos that he said showed Brown robbing a convenience store shortly before he was shot. But Jackson also said the officer who shot the teen didn't know Brown was a suspect when he stopped the young man for walking in the street.
Johnson said he'd "wished that I'd have a kind of been involved in that and had some conversations," adding: "I'm going to talk to the chief later about inclusion in some of these press conferences. We probably could have said some things differently at that press conference and maybe given out some information in a different way."
By NBC News, Aug. 15, 2014, Nbcnews.com
The Highway Patrol captain appointed to oversee security in Ferguson, Missouri, suggested Friday that the city's police chief should have been more open in a news conference that lawyers for the family of slain teenager Michael Brown characterized as "character assassination."
"I will be talking to the chief," Capt. Ron Johnson, whom Missouri's governor put in charge in Ferguson on Thursday, told reporters Friday. His remarks came after Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson released security video and photos that he said showed Brown robbing a convenience store shortly before he was shot. But Jackson also said the officer who shot the teen didn't know Brown was a suspect when he stopped the young man for walking in the street.
Johnson said he'd "wished that I'd have a kind of been involved in that and had some conversations," adding: "I'm going to talk to the chief later about inclusion in some of these press conferences. We probably could have said some things differently at that press conference and maybe given out some information in a different way."
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