During my 11 years as a FReeper I must have seen hundreds of declarations that Detroit was going to burn over this issue or that. The simple fact is that such things are seldom spontaneous and the agitators have moved on to greener pastures.
About 3 days after the Mike Brown shooting police shot and killed a man in Detroit. Some local agitators showed up to stir things a bit but the locals weren’t interested and it was largely forgotten by the next morning.
I fully expect violence in Ferguson and maybe some minor unrest elsewhere but I really don’t see any reason to believe there will be any large scale widespread violence.
That will probably be the case unless some of the protestors around Ferguson get set up and are killed in the process to make it seem like a race war had started. Depending on how much the protest organizers want the war, it could happen.
I was a mile or two from ground zero in the rodney king riots they burned my building i was rehabbing and the whole fing block that night i was husted out to my truck by a black guy i befriended who owned a traffic school next door weeks early we ran the gauntlet and he said to all the ferals i was not to be touched it worked He told me not to stop for anything get over the hill i went down on sat and the block was gone with the exception of the bank fault being guarded by Ca. National gaurdsmen never did see him again