While considering the timeline for when a grand jury will unveil the results of an investigation into the police shooting of Michael Brown, Gov. Jay Nixon is – in at least one instance – flying blind.
A day after Nixon declared a second state of emergency and activated the Missouri National Guard in advance of a grand jury decision sometime later this month, Ed Magee, a spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch, said Tuesday it has been several weeks since the prosecutor’s office has heard from Nixon.
“We have not heard from the governor or his office in about a month,” Magee wrote in an email.
Since the shooting in August, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has taken the lead on the investigation into Darren Wilson, the white cop who shot Brown, an unarmed black man.
In public statements over the past week, Nixon has said repeatedly he is relying on the public timeline laid out by the prosecutor’s office regarding when the grand jury plans to publicly release all of the information it has collected during its investigation of the Brown shooting.
A spokeswoman for Nixon’s office did not immediately respond to a multiple inquiries about Nixon’s communications with the chief investigator into the Ferguson shooting.
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The chilly relationship between the two was illustrated most vividly during the first state of emergency Nixon declared during the Ferguson protests in August. Protestors on the ground were demanding Nixon pull McCulloch from the case. While Nixon argued that he had no authority to remove McCulloch, McCulloch argued the opposite. Nixon said McCulloch would have to make the decision for himself, while McCulloch said it rested in Nixon’s hands.
McCulloch slammed Nixon in the same month for his decision to put the Missouri Highway Patrol in charge of policing the protests after violence broke out. Since Brown was shot and the investigation began, Nixon and McCulloch have never appeared together publicly.