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To: one_less who wrote (802999)	8/20/2014 3:17:42 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579866

Less, Of course nothing is certain, but he'd have to be the dumbest reporter in America to go there with out some degree of awareness this would happen in the situation he inserted himself in. I don't like this whole "blame the victim" mentality that people on the Internet seem to have. Sure, the reporter should have known the risks, but that doesn't excuse the police spraying him in the face when all he did was report on what was going on. Personally, I blame the rabble-rousers. They wanted to take what the reporter said was a peaceful (albeit tense) protest and turn it into a riot, thereby testing the patience, the restraint, and the training of law enforcement. Why? Because they want to be badasses. Because they want to see a riot. Because they benefit when law and order breaks down. And maybe because they can also get some free loot in the process. They don't realize that they are doing their side a huge disservice. They don't realize that they're one of the main reasons why their race remains permanently "disadvantaged." Really, they didn't learn jack from the 1992 LA riots when they had a legitimate grievance but turned an entire city into a major war zone (and trashed half of the Korean businesses in the process)? Tenchusatsu