Since Ferguson is descending into chaos (as is usual when black America gets upset), I will leave the situation alone--except to add that regardless of whether or not Brown was executed, and I do not think this was the case, regardless of whether or not he had shoplifted, or had an altercation in the prowl car with the officer prior to it, all the protesters are doing now confirms biases long in the making. Destroying the St. Louis community solves absolutely nothing, and yet here we are, with thousands of dollars in losses in an already stressed neighborhood.
Police officers are human. They get killed by perpetrators who steal their weapons, and these stresses are mitigating factors. We have a mixed race president, a black attorney general who still reverberates to the rhetoric of "I have a dream," and the entitlement is apparently sanction to go and destroy. If I engaged with that behavior against my landlord, or the city, where do you'd think I'd be?
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