“This crowd was not throwing Molotov cocktails and using firearms”
Like they were in Ferguson when they showed up with MRAPS and machine guns? Oh yeah, no they ween’t.
Like they were at the “1st amdendment zone” in Bunkerville when they showed up with attack dogs? Oh yeah, no they weren’t.
US police go full SWAT door busting, shooting folks dogs and throwing flash-bangs in babies cribs over nothing and US police go full MRAPS and machine guns over nothing.
Anything that would have effectively swept the streets of looters and rioters would have gotten howls of protest. Big deal.
If I were running things in Ferguson, I would have used one of two options:
1. Seal off the town and only let people who can prove they live or work there to get in. All others can go home and burn down their own neighborhoods.
2. Completely withdraw all police and let those who think that the police are the problem experience what it’s like when the “community” is in charge.
I have no sympathy for those who were not there making assumptions based upon race and acting upon them with violence.