OnTheIce OnTheIce:
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
The cops gave him a chance. Good job.

And yet, you were so critical of police in the Michael Brown shooting.
Selective rage.
I am still critical of the cops in the Michael Brown shooting. Their after-the-fact behavior incited a problem as opposed to settling it down.
The shooting of Brown has never quite been an issue for me and I've said numerous times that the here-nor-there of the shooting was something I'd put aside pending more information.
That said, the Ferguson cops were excessively heavy-handed in the immediate aftermath of the shooting and they should have had Brown transported to a trauma room and declared at the trauma room instead of leaving him on the street for four hours with his blood pouring out.
Brown absolutely provoked his own shooting. But the cops absolutely provoked the riots.