Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
Here's some racism for you: people losing their goddamn minds and rioting because some idiot robbed a place and tried to beat the shit out of a cop who told him to stop standing in the middle of the road and got shot in the process.
That's not accurate though. People rioted initially because to them it looked like a white cop shot an unarmed black guy in an area where there's already plenty of racial tension. You're looking at this with the knowledge someone has weeks after the shooting with a pretty good idea of how it actually went down due to forensics reports and a compilation of statements.

For most people, the riots after a while were no longer about the shooting, it became something else where they're angry with the police themselves. Not necessarily for this recent incident but it sounds like things have been festering in this city due to the way their cops have handled themselves for a long time. Plus, there's the way they've handled themselves during the riots. They're either not well trained or have shown tendencies to abuse their power.

The point is, Michael Brown was the fuse, the riots later on were no longer fueled by that one thing. I would dare to speculate that if you lived in an area where there wasn't some seriously bad history between the police and the residents of that town there wouldn't be near enough anger to fuel riots like that even if it was a 100% illegal shooting caught on camera.