Q: Matthew Sledge Huffington Post: Hi Governor. Thank you. Uh given that you’ve declared a state of emergency and you’ve put the [Missouri state] highway patrol on the unified command uh, does the buck ultimately stop with you when it comes to how any protests are policed?
Well I mean uh, we’re, uh, I, you know, it uh, it uh, you know, our goal here is to, is to, is to uh you know, keep the peace and allow folks’ voices to uh, uh, to be heard. Um and in that balance um, I’m attempting uh, you know, I am uh using the resources we have to marshal to be predictable, uh for, for, both those uh, pillars.
“I, I, I, don’t, you know, I’m more um… I, I, I, I just will have to say I don’t spend a tremendous amount of time personalizing this vis-a-vis me. I’m trying to make sure that uh, um, that that. we move forward in a, in a predictable, uh, peaceful manner that plans for all contingencies that might occur, um, so that people of a disparate group of opinions and actions, um, can can be heard, while at the same time, the property and and persons, person, persons of people in the St Louis region are protected.
“So that it, I mean it uh, um, um…I, I, I prefer not to be a commentator on it. I’m I'm uh, uh, making decisions as, uh, as in a uh, you know, to make sure that we’re all prepared for all contingencies, and I think this is another step, positive, you know, positive, predictable step towards preparing for any contingencies.”
Q: I guess, I guess another way of putting that would be, you know, is there any one official or or agency ultimately in charge here in in terms of response?
A: “Well I mean it, uh clearly, I mean I uh… I feel good about the, the you know, we’ve we've worked hard uh to establish unified command, to outline responsibilities, and now with the additional assets provided by my order today of the Missouri national guard, um you know we have, uh worked through um, you know, a number of of of operational uh issues the the the the folks have, and uh I will only say that I that I, that that um our efforts today are on top of a lot of things did in our last 100 days to make sure that we’re uh uh prepared for any contingency.”
- duration: 2:47
- published: 18 Nov 2014
- updated: 18 Nov 2014
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