HR Pufnstuf
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- May 12, 2015
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Those who riot because of perceived police brutality do so based on factors that are insidious at best. First, is the manufactured news built to drive ratings and fill the relentless 24 hour news cycle and those who crave their 10 seconds of TV sound bite of fame. Add alleged on-the-scene eye-witness reports and deliberate misinformation and soon mistrust is whipped into hysteria. Further the unquestioned stereo-types that all white police officers are racist and consistently engage in racial profiling add more fuel to the fire. Then bring in the "leaders" of the African-American community with their agenda of dividing the races, cause additional unrest and to line their own pockets and soon hysteria is turned into an environment rife with the possibility for riots. All of these things happen within hours of the alleged incident and long before any actual, provable evidence of what happened is discovered, analyzed and confirmed. Finally, the rioting, looting and damage is only perpetrated in their own neighborhoods which causes lost businesses and opportunities. Most businesses, which often are owned by those who live in that community, cannot recover and close down. Larger chains, faced with already high theft rates, choose close those locations in what is referred to as inner-city flight. What is left, after the TV crews and black leadership leave, is a husk of what once was community that turns to crime to support itself which brings more police involvement. This increased involvement will inevitably lead to another incident, most likely imagined, and the whole process is renewed.