A lot of those mother****ers use these incidents as excuses to be *******s, let's not sugarcoat it.
I'm sorry, but I have absolutely no sympathy for the criminal who got shot. He was a person with a long rap sheet that was wanted on burglary and unlawful possession of firearm charges who then ran from the cops with a gun in his hand at night. A person with a complete disregard for basic laws and common sense isn't someone that people should be rioting over. Plus this isn't a case where race played an issue because both the officer and criminal who was killed were black.
That doesn't magically mean race isn't an issue. Many black cops buy into the corruption, power tripping, and hatred for the black community that other cops have. Hell I can't go on facebook without seeing someone post a clip of Sheriff "Uncle Ruckus" Clarke babbling some incoherent nonsense...
Is it still a race issue when you don't know whether or not corruption was involved, when it could have been self preservation?