[PancakeBrah]

Although some stuff in Metts' post could be called into question (the poverty in West Baltimore being the fault of black people; that's a whole socio-economic issue that's too deep to even discuss here, really. I've watched The Wire, though, so I'm pretty much an expert on the black ghettos of Baltimore) and the language a bit coarse, his general point should be well taken. Ruining community businesses has absolutely nothing to do with the debate over the man's death. If anything it cheapens it and makes any serious discussion or protest easier to dismiss. The people looting stores are wrong. I can understand (well, maybe I can't since I'm white but whatever) being angry about supposed oppression and all that, and maybe that shows itself in different ways for different people but I just don't see the point, at all.