The final spark was one that has no excuse and was essentially a public lynching in broad daylight while onlookers openly recorded and pleaded for it to stop.

The final spark was one that has no excuse and was essentially a public lynching in broad daylight while onlookers openly recorded and pleaded for it to stop. There are few things more loaded with terrible, horrifying historical imagery in America than a white police officer lynching a black man. And I promise you, the significance of this horrific imagery was not lost on a single black American.