Any notion that this could have happened to a young Obama is garbage. Little nerdy Obama would have simply ran away from any trouble with his thick book bag. He was too busy being a nerd to get into any trouble in his youth.
Take race out the equation
After watching a couple of hours of news coverage I have come to a couple of conclusions. First off, NO MATTER WHAT and HOW the police reacted there was NO WAY that they were going to come across, through media outlets, as the good guys. Secondly, RACISM, itself, is so instilled and nurtured in the minority that it will NEVER go away. The media disgusts me. Everything from the young-looking pics of the perp and the CONSTANT mentioning of "The Unarmed Teen" to the suggestion that the officer should NOT have persued the bad guy! So much trashy news coverage shoved down the publics throat that that the water will never be clear.
Sadly, this is the one thing that is not going to happen. It's pathetic that in 2014 America, so much havoc and chaos can occur based on race. We should be light years beyond that by now.
Hindsight is 20/20- but I'm thinking waiting to make the announcement just when most of the criminals were getting out of bed was a bad idea.
It's amazing the totally different point of views between here, and my instagram. I tend to side more with the like minded people on bayoushooter. But my instagram is blowing up with, Racism, cops taking innocent young black lives, blacks have it harder, F the police, American's don't feel like black lives matter etc.....
Crazy, Take race out the equation, GUY robs old lady. Police officer responds to call, finding guy fitting the description. Stops guy, altercation ensues. Fight over weapon. Bad guy is put down...... I don't see a problem.
Overall, I don't think this was a bad plan. It allowed those people who work during the day to get safely out of harm's way before the action started. It keeps headcount down in the hot zones and allows people to be home with their families, preventing a large amount of vacant homes for rioters to rob / loot at will. All this tells me is they were expecting a riot, and the timing was set in order to reduce additional casualties.
Yeah I don't know what time would have been better. Timing seemed pretty good, post-rush hour, kids at home from school, etc.
I got the feeling that the time was not-arbitrarily picked with help of FBI experience, etc., who knew this would be a damage control situation.
'Burn this bitch down': The emotional reaction of Michael Brown's family who had repeatedly called for calm but ultimately could not hide their anger
What I don't understand is why these chain stores wouldn't have cut their loses and pulled all inventory from the stores and left the shelves bare and shut the power off? I understand Mom and Pops couldn't do this but seems like a logical preventative measure considering the looting that took place prior to last night...
And I would have loved to see these crowds disperse through a couple fire monitors especially at 30 degrees last night. My guess is Holder and Obama would have cried about this being cruel and unusual punishment.