Mike Parson on April 19, 2023, broke his silence and accused President Joe Biden of politicizing the Ralph Yarl shooting. - Rich Sugg/Kansas City Star/TNS
After days of refusing to weigh in on last week’s shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black 16-year-old Kansas City student, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday broke his silence and accused President Joe Biden of politicizing the incident. “I don’t want some 16-year-old kid to be getting shot because he went to the wrong house — we just don’t want those kinds of things to happen. It’s a tragedy,” Parson, a Republican, told The Star at the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City Wednesday. “When the president of the United States is trying to make a political statement over a very serious tragedy, it is v...
