Funny how news reports are shaded left and right.
NEWARK — As he helped serve food in a soup kitchen today, Gov. Chris Christie said he has no problem with people protesting a grand jury’s decision not to indict a police officer in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Mo., as long as it doesn’t become violent.
Christie made the remarks as he and First Lady Mary Pat Christie volunteered their time feeding the state's most vulnerable residents the day before Thanksgiving to promote the fourth annual "Season of Service."
"Everyone has the right to protest," Christie said, inside St. John's kitchen, as ninety quarts of creamed corn simmered on a stovetop behind him. "But those protests, whether in Ferguson or anywhere else where people want to express their dissatisfaction with something that government has done, then they should have the right to express that, but they have to express it nonviolently."
After referring to deep national anxiety, Christie put some of the blame on the White House.
“The country has anxiety over lots of things and the only thing that clears up anxiety is leadership and direction,” he said. “And I think the country needs more leadership and more direction and less division. So on Thanksgiving when everyone’s thinking about what they’re thankful for, hopefully they can also pray for some leadership in the country that’ll be strong to help bring people together.”
Asked if he was blaming Obama, Christie said: “I’m suggesting lots of people have responsibility for that … not just the president. He’s just one of them.”
Christie declined to criticize the performance of Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Republican, saying that “you never know exactly what’s going on unless you’re on the ground.”
KTC NOTE: Jay Nixon is a Democrat
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/11/26/gov-christie-on-ferguson-people-are-anxious-and-pres-obama-is-partly-to-blame/
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