@Dorkymike The individual shot in Ferguson was a criminal. He robbed a convenience store and assaulted a clerk. Later, he assaulted an officer and tried to wrest the man's gun way from him. He was shot. He died. He brought it upon himself.
I don't label them hoodlums because they were angry. Lots of Black people have been angry about a lot of things, and many of them have been reasonable. But burning down your own town because some thug got shot while attacking a policeman is not reasonable. If anything, it just reinforces the stereotypes that have polarized racial relations for decades.
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@Dorkymike The individual shot in Ferguson was a criminal. He robbed a convenience store and assaulted a clerk. Later, he assaulted an officer and tried to wrest the man's gun way from him. He was shot. He died. He brought it upon himself.
I don't label them hoodlums because they were angry. Lots of Black people have been angry about a lot of things, and many of them have been reasonable. But burning down your own town because some thug got shot while attacking a policeman is not reasonable. If anything, it just reinforces the stereotypes that have polarized racial relations for decades.