Looting random people is not protesting.
Destruction of random property is not protesting.
People that do these things are not protestors.
Vaguely-defined oppression is not a justification to hurt innocent people.
Behaving like an animal will not convince people to not treat you like one.
You need to ask more questions about why certain events are national news, and others aren't.
You need to ask why the verdict was given on a Monday at night.
You need to be more aware of the narrative that's being manufactured.
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Those aren't the protesters, those are thieves looking to take advantage of the chaos caused by cops responding to the protesters. The thieves in this case are assholes, that much is obvious, but they're also not everyone involved. The only way you could call this the "only picture you need to see from Ferguson" is if you already believed that the only thing going on there was looting. Think what you want about Brown, but excessive force is excessive force. No one [b]needed[/b] to die, but unfortunately we don't live in a world where people observe that belief. No, we live in a world where a person was shot six times for a rather trivial crime, rather than simply being arrested. Where peaceful protests were broken up by officers armed with military-grade weapons. Where some saw fit to destroy buildings and hurt other people in the chaos. Michael Brown Jr's story is over, he's dead, his body committed to the earth, his soul left to the void. But his death served as the beginning of several, even more tragic story. We can only hope that order can arise from the chaotic aftermath.