Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday that he would name a commission next month to study socioeconomic problems in the St. Louis area that have been highlighted during protests after the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. The Ferguson Commission, named after the city where Michael Brown, 18, was fatally shot by a police officer in August, will examine the area’s poverty, the public’s relationship with law enforcement, education, housing and other issues. Governor Nixon said it was a “defining moment” for the St. Louis region that will determine whether Ferguson will be synonymous with “racial unrest, or a region that will above and heal.” A St. Louis County grand jury and the Justice Department are investigating the shooting.
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