Actually, the timing of the verdict was amazingly good. Late at night on a Saturday, when attention of most of the potential rioters was directed to visiting some party or club, rather than raging through the streets overturning vehicles and setting fires and looting stores, kind of took off the edge. The big eruption was planned for Monday, when the verdict was expected, and the war room at the Department of “Just-Us” had the potential rioters all set up and ready to go. This way, by Monday, the verdict is “old news”, and it looks like the golden moment has passed. Even this afternoon, as the revelers from last night are just waking up, it is going to be hard to get any steam behind the demonstrations that have been in planning for the most part of a year.
I love it when a plan goes bust for the Current Regime squatting in the White Hut.
Yep, they tried like hell to make it a race war and it was a no-go from the beginning. In addition to what you said, which is good stuff, I think the intended protest participants were thinking, “If I’m packing my 9mm and some guy’s got me on the ground pounding my face in, am I supposed to just lay there and die?” Pulling a conviction and doing a few years in jail still beats being a dead body found by a morning jogger.
From the beginning, this thing never had the same level of outrage that the Rodney King debacle had no matter how hard the Jesse Jacksons and community organizers tried to drive it. I don’t know if it’s the lack of video or the fact that the clear aggressor was the one who got shot or what.