To the Editor:
Regarding the riots and looting in Ferguson, Mo. Stacey Washington of the National Center for Public Policy Research (Project 21) made the following comment: “The most important thing anyone can do in this tragedy surrounding the officer involved in the shooting of Michael Brown is to take a step back and wait for the entirety of the facts to come to light. The rioting looters are opportunists; people who have taken a tragedy and are using it as an excuse to exercise their most base and criminal desires. These lawless individuals are stealing from a community that is already reeling from losing one of their own.”
Horace Cooper also of Project 21 said, “Looting and rioting is never justified. These are not the actions of mainstream black America. These are the hooligans and thugs who make life miserable for everyone else by taking advantage of what they see as an opportunity.”
I agree entirely with Stacey and Horace and think the agitation by hot heads and thugs only hurt the good people of Ferguson and that community as a whole. And the media is not innocent in this either. Words mean things and the tone of the media coverage of tragedies like this can incite and inflame an already tense situation.
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