[From article]
A hallmark of August was pointlessly destructive civil disorder, and it’s only gotten more pointless. In late September, the makeshift memorial to Michael Brown on the street in Ferguson burned down, probably set alight by its own candles.
This set off minor rioting, including the vandalizing of a beauty salon that has been hit multiple times for the offense of operating a business in a town where protesters are so committed to justice.
In nearby St. Louis a few weeks later, an off-duty cop working as a private security guard shot to death a teen who had fired at him with a Ruger 9mm.
It turned out the gun had been stolen two weeks earlier, and the teen, monitored with an ankle bracelet, had been awaiting trial on a felony concealed-weapon charge.
This event was nonetheless filtered through the lens of Ferguson. Protesters took the streets to demonstrate against what would strike most people as a legitimate act of self-defense, chanting the inapt “Hands up, don’t shoot!”
[. . .]
FBI forensics show that the gun was indeed fired twice in the car, and Brown’s blood was on the gun and Officer Wilson’s uniform.
Sharpton and protesters maintain that all they want is justice. It may well be what justice demands in this case is no indictment of a cop who fired in self-defense.
Although, sadly, that is unlikely to be a formula for peace.
http://nypost.com/2014/10/20/justice-in-ferguson-the-politics-of-the-protests/
‘Justice’ in Ferguson: The politics of the protests
By Rich Lowry
New York Post
October 20, 2014 | 7:48pm
