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  • The decision…to announce the [Ferguson] decision at 8:30 p.m. CT was foolish and dangerous. Here’s the thing about that time of night: it’s dark. Anyone – anyone! – should have known the decision in the Brown case would have been controversial. A decision not to indict, which was always possible, even likely, would have been sure to attract protests, even violence. Crowd control is always more difficult in the dark.

Monday, 17 September 2018 / Published in Anti-Government, Community, Courts & Supreme Court, Free Speech, Human Nature, Ideology, Leadership, Military & Armed Forces, Policy, Politics, Protesting, Public Opinion & Polls, Race & Ethnicity, Reality, Strategy, Violence

The decision…to announce the [Ferguson] decision at 8:30 p.m. CT was foolish and dangerous. Here's the thing about that time of night: it's dark. Anyone – anyone! - should have known the decision in the Brown case would have been controversial. A decision not to indict, which was always possible, even likely, would have been sure to attract protests, even violence. Crowd control is always more difficult in the dark.


Jeffrey Toobin, CNN op-ed, Nov 25, 2014

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