


James Crowley
Obama's role in Ferguson is complicated

WASHINGTON The morning after the St. Louis County grand jury decided to not indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, reporters traveling on Air Force One with President Barack Obama to a Chicago speech on immigration had a question they came back to repeatedly in ensuing days: Would the president go to Ferguson? That possibility was "under consideration," deputy press secretary Eric Schultz said, and it would be re-evaluated "when things calm down a little bit." As in all things Ferguson-related, the definition of "calm down a little bit" is subjective and evolving. So far, that presidential visit has not come, but White House press secretary Josh...