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The senator is actually saying, "if you don't indict, Ferguson is going to burn."
That is not inciting, it is a measured and reasonable assessment of what is going to go down. Multiple areas in St. Louis, Kansas City, Cahokia, East St. Louis, Belleville, Venice, Granite City, Alton, Ferguson, Moline Acres, Madison, Cairo, Carbondale, and elsewhere will see some riots, fires, torchings, and firearm based shootings and killings. You don't understand how deep the antipathy is.
The areas that police never investigate New Years Eve firearm discharges are all going to become very dicey indeed. A lot of people are not in tune with the level of discontent to hatred that has been created by the post-Sheriff Taylor era of policing. Of the three recent police killings of younger black men in St. Louis, only one was generally accepted as justified - and that one was grudgingly so by the black community.
The black community here is engaged, motivated, and here to stay. They are not happy that there have been zero police charged with a crime for killing a black person in the past decade, so they have protested at City Hall, in Ferguson, at the Rams game, at the Symphony, at concerts, at the universitys, on the major highways, at grocery stores, at businesses, and they will have no problem revisiting the riots in broad daylight with deaths and bombs and other collateral damage.
For the majority of people in this thread, this is an exercise in semantics. Here in St. Louis, it is going to get ugly. And the police could not handle the first go around at all, completely f'ing it up until the State Highway Patrol figured things out. The next time is going to be infinitely worse. All the school districts have asked that the presser not be announced until all the schoolchildren are home. The National Guard has been requested to respond on a two hour notice. We will know when it goes down by the PDs cancelling all their vacation time. What fun.
Our local neighborhood safe association has developed our emergency plan, with all the five access streets being blocked off with cars and manned by armed guards/retired military folks. For the first three or four days, it is going to be Watts/Detroit, so y'all can have fun watching from afar. We are fourteen miles from Ferguson, so hopefully we can avoid most of it, if I stay home from work.
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