From a comment in /r/Stlouis[0] (because I live in another suburb and have been watching developments closely) > A shooting is a disproportionate response to s

From a comment in /r/Stlouis[0] (because I live in another suburb and have been watching developments closely) > A shooting is a disproportionate response to someone walking in the road, riots and looting are a disproportionate response to an unjust death, militarized police is a disproportionate response to riots and looting, and Molotov cocktails are a disproportionate response to a militarized police force. > A cycle of violence will continue to escalate until one side will take a step back and often it takes a third party like the Missouri Highway Patrol to make that happen. When a conflict is escalating, there are multiple layers of disproportionate response that allow outside observers at any point to interject how the people worrying about Layer X are ignoring Layer X-1, which allows other observers to interject that said person is ignoring Layer X-2, ad nauseum. It's somewhat the inevitable result of people trying to process a complicated tragic situation with information overload into simple understanding that are inevitably influenced by their pre-existing biases and experiences. [0]http://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/comments/2dlq8w/the_first_night_of_peaceful_protest/ http://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/comments/2dlq8w/the_first_ni...