By JOE HARRIS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) – Only deadly force by the National Guard would have prevented Ferguson rioting and looting after a grand![\"\"](\"http://www.courthousenews.com/homepage/logo.gif\"){kind=logo}
jury declined to indict the police officer who killed Michael Brown, National Guard and Missouri Highway Patrol leaders said Tuesday.
National Guard Adjutant Gen. Stephen Danner and Highway Patrol field operations Cmdr. Maj. Bret Johnson spoke in a joint interview. Also Tuesday, Gov. Jay Nixon released hundreds of pages of internal Guard memos, emails, troop orders and timelines to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in response to a public records request.
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