‘”You don’t understand that Michael Brown does not want to be remembered for a riot. He wants to be remembered as the one that made America deal with how we’re going to police in the United States.”’
Notice that this gets said after the stores are looted and burned, & when the locals are demanding the stores be rebuilt. It was not said when it could even have potentially made a difference.
There was a devastating result from the store looking. The town of Ferguson has had untold damage to its future. The retail businesses have been destroyed and are out of business. Anyone thinking of opening business there will face prohibitive insurance costs and risks. Existing businesses will move out and jobs will dry up. It will be a long time for that city to recover. This is the lesson that the departure from the rule of law teaches. It should have been learned from the Watts Riots of 1965. That economy has never recovered from that tragedy. All it does is lock more youths into the illegal drug industry when there are no other job opportunities.