Has anybody noticed that a lot of these issues seem to be planned? There is always a ‘friend’ there with a camera and they always seem to intentionally escalate the situation to start a ruckus.
I don’t think the events are planned, but I do believe the response is. There are two goals to this; make us afraid to defend ourselves and to make us tolerate behavior that is, in our society, currently unacceptable. This lady was disorderly, period. She wouldn’t leave when asked by the store or by the police. The two guys in Starbuck’s the other day had two options when first confronted; they could have left or bought a cup of coffee. The decided to take option 3 and be assholes. That’s all that happened there. I would expect no different if I behaved this way.