FERGUSON PART II: THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG

As I watched the prosecutor live, announcing the grand jury’s verdict, I watched the ripple of rage go through the crowd outside, seen on the CNN split-screen.  Soon, the rocks and bottles were flying, there were gunshots (apparently not from the police side), a police car wrecked by the riotous, drawing a volley of tear gas. Then buildings were burning, and the looting was underway.

There was fear in the voices of many news folks reporting from the scene.  One seemed surprised when he said that some of the “protesters” were trying to restrain some of the “agitators.”  What a teachable moment: watching a journalist realize that when the thrown missiles are coming in his direction, protesters turn into agitators.

The agitators were already moving into their long-pre-planned assault on society, before the prosecutor could even begin his explanation of the reasoning behind the decision of the grand jury, who he described as the only people who had seen all the evidence there was to present.  They weren’t there for truth. They weren’t there for justice.  They were there for a lynching, in my view.

Those who DO want to find out the truth, can start here, with the transcript of the grand jury minutes, courtesy of the New York Times: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/11/24/ferguson-assets/grand-jury-testimony.pdf .

This is not going to be pretty.

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