Alan.....you've mentioned people needing to be responsible before, and I totally agree. But that's never going to happen. What then?

And what concerns me about these situations is that the public is becoming more and more hostile, and capable of really doing damage to the police/innocent bystanders/local businesses.
And that teaching cops how to defuse situations, etc., does get further and further from a possibility, when nothing they do matters to these criminals. Some people are very dangerous and enjoy venting their various angers (perhaps not even the anger that peaceful protesters might feel) and they wait for times like this to destroy things. I'm sure they probably didn't know who worked in that CVS store, or whose cars they destroyed (except for police cars........and maybe it belonged to a black cop)..........So waiting for rational behavior to happen is living in a fairytale. I want the law to come down much harder on these people......but how do we do that? I'm sure there will be some law suits against some of the police in this situation.......and it will be ridiculous. Police aren't automatons. How would you feel if you were being pelted with rocks and bottles and seeing people running out of someone's store with stolen loot in their arms and a big smile on their face?
This is getting to be a pretty crazy place. And if we don't start coming down hard on some of these thugs, things are going to get uglier and uglier......