On the other side, you have...the thugs.
Caught in the middle are the various innocent parties who would all probably be a whole lot better off if both groups of thugs managed to wipe each other out in the course of this little dispute hence my inability to find a side to root for.
Some police can be thugs, not all and as far as I have seen, they’ve not done anything wrong in Ferguson, so it’s easy for me to find who to root for.