When criminals target enclaves of wealth and privilege, the gloves come off.
Think about the low key response by the media to the much more questionable killing of Eric Garner in New York City, capital of the globe, compared to the blatantly false narrative in Ferguson, Missouri, a small lower middle class suburb of St. Louis where zero rich, powerful or well connected people live.
A big part of the current PC climate is a double standard where rich liberals in places like SF and NYC are allowed to use aggressive and sometimes unconstitutional measures to control crime but poorer more conservative parts of the country are brought before inquisitions over imagined brutality and racism.
“Think about the low key response by the media to the much more questionable killing of Eric Garner” -— His death got a LOT of attention in this country.