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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (258421)	8/20/2014 12:20:20 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 542125

None of these events happens in a vacuum. I've spent some time in the St Louis area and for as long as I can remember big sections of the metro area have been racially polarized. You could say some of it even goes back to the 1800s when St Louis was a big friction point between slave-free Illinois and slave-allowed Missouri. I have seen some perceptive coverage which shows a history of bad relations between the Ferguson Police Dept and black citizens which goes back for years, heightened when white homeowners moved further out into suburbia and their homes were purchased by black residents, many of them upwardly mobile. The tinder was there... Michael Brown was the spark. Nothing really new here, except maybe the militarization of local Police departments after 911.