I don't know if there will be riots. Hope not. It would be very bad for the town. What I'm saying because of the circumstances people assume there will be. The Zimmerman case was a similar case and there were none.
Of course we all know what many here think about groups of black people.
Considering that businesses were burned by rioters it is not unreasonable to think that behavior would notgo away. If it doesn't happen excellent and you are vindicated, but that wasn't my question to you. I personally don't think anything about black people in the sense that I do not believe that are so inferior that they cannot control themselves or be held accountable for their actions any more than whites. I'm color agnostic. If you beat another, rob them, burn their homes or means of earning a livelihood I don't care if you are lilly white or ebony black or anywhere in between. I don't care that someone else did or did not do something somewhere else. I know you have purposefully harmed another and neither race nor status changes that fact. You have done wrong, period.
While I have empathy in come cases, an understanding of motivation, that doesn't change the facts. If a family member was murdered I cannot guarantee my response, but no matter what that is, for good or ill, I am ultimately the one who made the choice to act as I did. If I hold myself to this standard I am not going to permit another to exercise the right of harm with impunity. The exception is the defense of oneself or another and yes in the proper manner when issues of law arise. That means I do not condone police beating people needlessly.
You either accept that or do not. You either hold accountable for wrongs or you excuse or deflect. There's really no wiggle room here.