KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Some Kansas City students have walked out of a speech Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was giving in an apparent protest of the police shooting in Ferguson.
Nixon was talking Thursday at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy when a handful of students raised their hands over their heads in a gesture associated with the Ferguson protests. The Kansas City Star (https://bit.ly/14SjtcS) reports that the students then left through an auditorium door without disrupting the speech.
Nixon was at Lincoln to recognize its status as a National Blue Ribbon School, one of the nation’s top awards for academic excellence.
Nixon says he understands the students’ concerns. He says they’re “going to be - and need to be - a force, so that we can be a better state and better society after this.”
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Information from: The Kansas City Star, https://www.kcstar.com
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