Former Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson led the department for five years until he resigned in March of 2015. That period includes the time immediately following the shooting death of Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson in August of 2014, and the protests. He joined Marc Cox to dispute recent statements from Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush.
"It's frightening that people are going to believe that stuff," says Jackson. "Now we have, all of a sudden, white supremacists hiding behind hills, shooting at protestors? Not hitting them, of course, but shooting at them. That's just absurd, it didn't happen. It's a lie, it's just a bunch of lies, her saying she was brutalized by the police during the Ferguson riots. It just didn't happen."
Jackson penned a book, Policing Ferguson, Policing America, which was released in 2017.
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