today i am pleased to introduce 16 men and women who i have appointed to serve this region and our state as members of the ferguson commission. they bring to the table a rich diversity of life experience and points of views. while they are clearly a diverse group, they are united by the shared passion to promote understanding, to hasten healing, to ensure equal opportunities in education and employment and to safeguard the civil rights of all of our citizens. >> missouri governor jay nixon picked those people in the wake of the police shooting of michael brown in ferguson. he asked them to go beyond that case and look at the structural problems in policing crime and pvrt. today the commission released its report. it's worth looking at why the commission was different in the first place. from the very day of governor nixon's announcement, it didn't