As I watched the prosecutor live, announcing the grand jury\u2019s verdict, I watched the ripple of rage go through the crowd outside, seen on the CNN split-screen.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
There was fear in the voices of many news folks reporting from the scene.\u00a0 One seemed surprised when he said that some of the \u201cprotesters\u201d were trying to restrain some of the \u201cagitators.\u201d\u00a0 What a teachable moment: watching a journalist realize that when the thrown missiles are coming in his <\/em>direction, protesters turn into agitators.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t there for truth. They weren\u2019t there for justice.\u00a0 They were there for a lynching, in my view.<\/p>\n