Why didn't they announce the grand jury decision right now?

[KevinNYC]

9AM in full daylight?

Why did the prosecutor decide to do this at night? Knowing about the very real threat of violence?

What was so important it had to announced after dark last night?

[ImKobe]

9AM in full daylight?

Why did the prosecutor decide to do this at night? Knowing about the very real threat of violence?

What was so important it had to announced after dark last night?

This was all planned. They want people to riot, they want people to be distracted by everything that's going on in the media right now. This is pathetic but the people that fall for it are even worse.

[Godzuki]

supposedly because those were business hours....altho its a retarded excuse consideering they could have easily closed up if they knew in advance. considering hoodlums usually only come out at night, and a lot of the protesters would've had to be at work, whoever made that call is a moron.

then again you know they would've just rioted that night either way. it might've lessened the riot anarchy tho.

[Patrick Chewing]

Less people on the streets.


Remember Reginald Denny??

[Draz]

The children. They wanted the children to be at home safe after school hours not during.

The entire situation is stupid.

[gts]

You don't want people rioting while kids are going to school and people are trying to get to work. If they're going to riot regardless, rather they do it at night

this....


I'll add the Rodney King verdict was announced during the daytime... that went well :rolleyes:

[Raymone]

Are black people less violent in the morning or something?

[Jet]

Are black people less violent in the morning or something?


They are still passed out after a long night of murder, raping and robbing. 9 AM is the best time to avoid a riot.

[MavsSuperFan]

9AM in full daylight?

Why did the prosecutor decide to do this at night? Knowing about the very real threat of violence?

What was so important it had to announced after dark last night?
:lol why would that be an advantage for the cops?

LA riots happened in board daylight. If anything the extra viability helps the looters.


Why did the prosecutor decide to do this at night? Knowing about the very real threat of violence?

Because less vulnerable people are out at night. Little kids at school, old folks at the park, etc.


What was so important it had to announced after dark last night?
If anything they should have announced the decision later. some people that work late and get off work probably were unnecessarily put in danger

[ThemBombs]

this....


I'll add the Rodney King verdict was announced during the daytime... that went well :rolleyes:
um... the difference is, Ferguson doesn't have a metropolitan population of 12,000,000

granted, violence would've still occurred, but it would've been managed much better and it would've been less widespread.

[MavsSuperFan]

This was all planned. They want people to riot, they want people to be distracted by everything that's going on in the media right now. This is pathetic but the people that fall for it are even worse.
a riot at 9 am lasting a whole day is much worse than a riot starting at night.

at 9 am you put little kids at risk.

[KevinNYC]

You don't want people rioting while kids are going to school and people are trying to get to work. If they're going to riot regardless, rather they do it at night

I think there's more impunity at night.

They also could have gotten the full guard in daylight once anything started going down.

[MavsSuperFan]

um... the difference is, Ferguson doesn't have a metropolitan population of 12,000,000

granted, violence would've still occurred, but it would've been managed much better and it would've been less widespread.
Why? what logical reason is there that the people who rioted and looted wouldnt have done so in the morning.

If anything it would have been worse as at least at night eventually these guys have to sleep

further imagine kids at school being stuck there while a city riots

if anything you announce the decision at 1 am. that way only the people that really want to be there are caught in the riot. all people who want no part of it wont be trapped by it

[MavsSuperFan]

I think there's more impunity at night.

They also could have gotten the full guard in daylight once anything started going down.
theres enough impunity in numbers already and people were wearing masks.

cops werent going to deploy into the city unless it go so bad that they got the clearance to shoot.

if you announce it at 9 am the rioting starts at 9 am and lasts the whole day, further tons of people that want nothing to do with this situation will be caught in the riot.

announcing it at night helped insure the only people caught in the tear gas or rubber bullets or thrown rocks, etc would be media, protesters, rioters, looters and cops

Edit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOXcHEMiHr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc_SgpyJWRY
that is a video of the LA riots that occurred during board daylight. they made a huge mistake announcing it during the day while innocent people with nothing to do with the situation were dragged out of their cars/trucks and beaten/killed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_J7kPNe7fI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6tmD0W5r4w
korean shop owners vs looters

If they had announced the decision at night, a lot of innocent people would not have suffered permanent injuries

[west_tip]

Look, the hoodlums were gonna riot, loot and destroy property regardless of what time of day or night the decision was announced.

At least by announcing the decision at night kids, senior citizens and innocent member of the public were safely in their homes and did not get caught up in it. That was the rationale behind announcing the GD decision when they did.

[oarabbus]

Look, the hoodlums were gonna riot, loot and destroy property regardless of what time of day or night the decision was announced.

At least by announcing the decision at night kids, senior citizens and innocent member of the public were safely in their homes and did not get caught up in it. That was the rationale behind announcing the GD decision when they did.

No way, riots are fueled by the night. It's why they impose curfews during martial law. Had they announced it in the AM the riots would have been less severe.

[9erempiree]

No way, riots are fueled by the night. It's why they impose curfews during martial law. Had they announced it in the AM the riots would have been less severe.

I disagree because the innocent would be hurt due to the looting and rioting. They would have attacked businesses with customers in them.

The best thing to do was announce it at night because they would have been tired by nightfall.

[west_tip]

No way, riots are fueled by the night. It's why they impose curfews during martial law. Had they announced it in the AM the riots would have been less severe.

I agree that nightfall does facilitate rioting due to the inability of police to identify individuals responsible but the authorities have a duty of care to minimize casualties and ensure that there are no fatalities. Your best way of doing that is to confine the rioting to the night when law abiding citizens, suitably forewarned will be confined to their homes.

Its all about containment, its a pick your poison type scenario and the commanders on the ground will have decided that commercial properties being destroyed and looted is more palatable than innocent civilians being put in harms way. Businesses can be rebuilt lives are simply irreplaceable.

53 people lost their lives in the LA riots and many thousands more were injured, lest we forget.

[GimmeThat]

9AM in full daylight?

Why did the prosecutor decide to do this at night? Knowing about the very real threat of violence?

What was so important it had to announced after dark last night?

because the nation had most likely be misguided that such an event decides the future of its course.


and in the case that it does

something tells me that the government much prefers to respond, than to be on the offensive end.


because as systematic noise hit.

repair, might just be fool's gold.