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Right. And beyond that ... I suspect that once the Baltimore mayor's office became aware of the fact that three of the six police officers involved are black, it was imperative to get the damn story out of the news. It's one thing for these mutants to have several days or weeks of rioting over an alleged racially motivated abuse of police power, but when the racial aspect of the case is eliminated then the whole story changes.

What Baltimore ended up with was a colossal embarrassment -- for both the city and its overwhelmingly minority residents -- played out on national television, over something that simply didn't fit the agenda of the professional malcontents that dominate the politics there. It wasn't white people who burned down the pharmacy that the city had been begging CVS to build for years. And the ultimate humiliation was when the team's oldest professional sports franchise, the Baltimore Orioles, played an official Major League Baseball game in front of an empty stadium because of the team's concerns about the safety of their fans. I've said all along that this is what ultimately pushed the city government to put an end to the mess.