Grand jury reaches decision in Ferguson case (Announcement Monday night)

[The Vorlon]

The folks rioting and looting in Ferguson have done their very best to validate every negative stereotype there is about African Americans.

The "leadership" of the African American community needs to step up and actually lead in a positive way.

To quote Martin Luther King

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

[The Vorlon]

The folks rioting and looting in Ferguson have done their very best to validate every negative stereotype there is about African Americans.

Yeah I don't think anyone there gives a sh1t that racists are feeling that their racist views are being validated.

So you support the looting?

[The Vorlon]

There is something of a point under his badly worded sentence. What the rioters are doing is enforcing the notion that these areas are lawless and that cops need to be especially vigilant while there. Thus, the public is willing to give cops more leeway in how they conduct themselves in black neighborhoods.

Yes, thanks for trying to make a point I made badly.

A jury looks at the totality of the situation and asks if the defendant behavior was that of a "reasonable person"

When you look at the riots and looting in Ferguson, its pretty easy for a jury to think a police officer in the African American areas is entirely "reasonable" to be on a very, very high state of alert and legitimately concerned for their own personal safety.