The big thing here about Ferguson is missing. Riot police with assault rifles pointed at a crowd. It used to be they just clubbed protesters with big sticks, and turned fire hoses and dogs on them. Now it’s looking down the barrel of a hundred 40 round assault rifles pointed at your head.
Oops! There were two instances where the protesters were confronted by military weaponry. The Boston Massacre and Kent State. That went well. The first rallied the people to Revolution while the the latter became the turning point in the middle class joining the protests to end that poop War in Vietnam. With all that hardware given to small town cops it’s only a matter of time before that happens once again. Oh, it will have to be white people dead in the street for it to matter though.