If I were a cop in Ferguson I would have let it burn too.
These hood rats aren’t happy unless they are taking from others and creating general mayhem. Let em suffer from their culture. They don’t wand structure, laws or civility. There are only two things they want from whitey. Free stuff and someone to blame.
They want civility, let em police themselves!
“They want civility, let em police themselves!”
And here’s the irony; they would do a far better job at greatly lower cost. You can’t force social norms on large groups of people who don’t accept those norms absent sending in an armed force. Why go there?