Ferguson officer Darren Wilson not indicted

[MikeRox]

generic-user-1 said:

Tachikoma said:

generic-user-1 said:

Tachikoma said:
as with the UK riots a few years ago, while some are doing it out of emotion, many will be "aggressively protesting" without really caring for the cause and instead abusing it as an opportunity to run amock / destroy property / loot, etc.

u mean the student riots or the race riots?

Pretty much all riots.

well, normaly the people dont loot or burn down businesses(well banks burn, but thats something different) in riots. they throw things at police men, burn down police cars, etc.  

political riots dont destroy much of the city normaly. 

I find a few parallels with like the London riots that spread across the country here. They were pretty much purely driven by looting and burning buildings down. Tottenham was merely an excuse for it in most of the country. The poor police response to the initial looting is what led to it spreading, sadly it was absolutely nothing to do with what the initial protest was about.

It seems to me the same is happening over this. I absolutely understand why there is so much anger, I was actually really taken aback as to how overtly racist some people are in St Louis. Last time I was over there in October, routine ticket inspections on the metro were grabbing tickets off black people and inspecting them really closely, whilst my own ticket was barely even glanced at.  And I also had to wonder why the hell someone inspecting tickets needed a holster with more equipment than your average bank robber would use here in the UK. Not only was there a pistol, but also a taser, pepper spray, truncheon as well as the radio etc.

All this for a $5 metro ride?! Seriously!?