In this case it is important to trace the cause and effect of each action.
The police are overreaching and militarization is frightening, however, some actions they are taking are also justified. In today’s soundbite world each incident is examined individually rather than as a whole.
Overall this event needs to be combined in a case study with the after math of the Boston bomber and the Bundy ranch to show we have government militarism out of control at all levels. Federal, big city, small city. A coalition of African Americans, libertarians and traditional liberals and conservatives to reverse this trend.
I don’t know, but it sounds like you know absolutely nothing about rioting and looting. This kind of anarchy hurts middle class and small business owners trying to make a living. It als hurts the poor people even more, since businesses get lost or even go under can’t hire people. It sounds like you believe in the Hollywood action films. What good is a gun when your store has been lit up by a firebomb? Or when you and your limited ammo is against a mob armed with everything from baseball bats to guns? Police support means everything in a situation. Unlike an action movie, they don’t have the awful marksmanship either. The rioting merited police riot control measures. As for the bad cop, well, we know that the press reported it to us, we know that there is an investigation going on, and we need to realize that the rioting was a foolish response which is going to hurt the community mire than the one kid being shot. I wouldn’t want to live in a place where people react to injustice by destroying part of town in response.