Replying to bump up. This is exactly what happened. They couldn't be bothered to declare a state of emergency when their own police were attacking citizens and media, but a "handful of looters" warrants a state of emergency. This is a deliberate police action. They deliberately stepped aside and failed to do their job…

Seriously. The cops want looting and rioting to happen so they can use those things as excuses to impose draconian measures to keep protesters from protesting. And to attract sympathy for their department. You have tons of white people who were initially horrified by Mike Brown's killing hearing about the scary riots…

I think it's strategic. They keep piling on civil rights abuses so they look like they're making progress when they stop shooting into crowds, or when they lift the curfew, or when they eventually caved and released the officer's name. I.e. when they stop doing things that they had no right to do in the first place.…

I watched the whole thing happen via livestream last night. The cops weren't doing anything about the looting. This was strategy all along. They let this happen so that they could impose the curfew and block the protests.

So let me get this straight: law enforcement doesn't dare fight Clive Bundy and his thugs, but unarmed protesters and journalists get the full armed brigade treatment.

Yeah. Holy shit. This thing is everything that is wrong with America and has been wrong with America in a fucking nutshell.

to see all of this leaves me upset. I am so bothered by this I am on edge

"We've done everything we can to demonstrate a remarkable amount of restraint."

99% of my Twitter feed is talking about this. It's incredible what's happening. I am beyond words. The pictures are especially telling. The tear gas smoke, the guns trained on protesters. I wish I could post one, it's of two protesters with their backs turned that have red sniper rifle dots on their backs. (Edit -…

The United States of America is not for black people.

Keep waiting. He's white.

And that Boston bomber survived. He was on the run, a known criminal killing and injuring hundreds yet he was not mown down in the streets. I wonder what would have happened if he was black. I wonder.

And the media is complicit in this also. All the people who showed up at Ted Bundy's ranch with guns blazing were called "supporters" and the protestors in Ferguson were referred to as an "angry mob" on Saturday, 24 whole hours before any kind of looting started. Sometimes it all just seems so hopeless, and feels like…

There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys. Guns aren't for black people, either.

Yeah, I don't even care at this point if normal burners like me get caught up in it as long as they get rid of these Stormfront dipshits. And Deadspin is by far one of the least affected by the sudden infux of racist halfwits, it's way worse over at Gawker.

David Simon, the creator of The Wire, often talks about how there are really two Americas—one economically viable and mostly white, the other economically hopeless and mostly black. In my experience, no place embodies this division more than St. Louis, where I've lived the past few years. You can drive north from a…

"There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys."

250 years of slavery, 100 years of Jim Crow, housing discrimination, police brutality, Congressional vitriol toward Obama...

Tony Stewart is well known to have temper and anger management issues. Science has proven that when you give in to your temper, it overrides a part of your brain that controls logic and consequence, so your judgement and ability to comprehend consequences are severely hampered.

My heart goes out to Kevin Ward Jr's family.