Tomorrow he will announce progress, hope and change.
Via NY Times
The governor of Missouri said Sunday that an overnight curfew had been effective in helping to maintain peace in this St. Louis suburb after a week of unrest ignited by the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager by a white police officer.
“I thought that last night, with the help of the community, a solid step forward was made,” the governor, Jay Nixon, said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Despite the curfew, however, there were scattered clashes and a shooting by an unknown assailant.
Thousands of people marched on Saturday night, Mr. Nixon said, and only seven were arrested. Law enforcement did not fire a single shot, he added.
Asked whether things were under control on Sunday morning, Mr. Nixon said in another interview, on CBS’s “Face the Nation, “We feel much better.”
He did not specify how long the curfew would continue, but left open the possibility that it could last for several days.
After Mr. Nixon spoke, a Justice Department spokesman, Brian Fallon, said that a federal medical examiner would conduct a second autopsy of the teenager, Michael Brown, 18. A state-performed autopsy has already been completed.
Shortly after the curfew went into effect at midnight on Saturday, a clash between protesters and dozens of police officers in riot gear led to the arrests of seven people, all charged with “failure to disperse,” officials said. In addition, a man was shot by an unknown person and taken by companions to a hospital, where he was reported to be in critical condition, officials said.
On Sunday morning, Mr. Nixon called that shooting “a private matter” and said that law enforcement had not been involved.