Years ago, when I was in college, and living at home as we were only 2 blocks from campus, my father's daily newspaper started disappearing.
After a couple of weeks of this, he got up early, leashed his German Shepard dog, who was highly trained, and waited in the dark on his porch.
Eventually, a young black kid (the neighborhood was just beginning to integrate) came along and picked up the paper and started off with it.
Daddy opened the door and yelled, “Drop that paper right now, or I'll unleash this dog.”
Well, the paper was dropped, and the boy hightailed it. About half-an-hour later, the boy's father showed up, wanting to know what the hell was going on.
Pops explained the situation to him, the man apologized, and said it wouldn't happen again, and it never did.
It'd be nice if people could settle their differences as easily nowadays, and the troubles were as simple as a pilfered newspaper. Oh, and it wasn't the authorities that were doing it. And, yeah, if different groups could settle their differences by listening to each other.
Good story.
Sadly today the father would have shown up with his ‘crew’ and begin his flap-an-dap ‘justice-for-st-trayvon act and then shoot his ‘gat because you dissed his son.
I'm sure there was an interesting encounter when the man got home after believing the lie his kid told that got him to confront the angry neighbor.