The media can try and spin it all they want. I think the overwhelming silent majority will see you got some nut who was influenced by the "police are out to kill blacks" mantra being promoted by Sharpton, et. al., and he went on a shooting spree. Yeah, he might have been mental, but most of these hoodies live on the edge of being that anyway, and people know it.
The sympathy on this is with law enforcement. Most people realize the police just want to go out, do their jobs (something most people don't really want to have to do but realize is necessary), and come home to their families like the rest of us. Most people know better than to resist arrest and that if you have 30+ arrests against you the police are going to view you differently. Most people know you shouldn't steal cigars from a store, and if you're walking in the middle of the road and a law officer tells you to get back on the sidewalk, you don't argue, you just do it. I think sometimes we read the reactions of the kooks in society and think there's more of them than us, and it's just not true. They are way outnumbered in this instance. What they are is small, can be loud, but overall they usually end up showing themselves for being the fools they are.
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