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I would delay the reading of the grand jury\u2019s verdict until prime time viewing. If I waited long enough, there would be ample time for a large crowd to gather. I\u2019d heighten the feelings of unease in town and across the country by erecting police barricades long before there was any need for them. I\u2019d leak<\/a> the grand jury\u2019s verdict hours before it was read in court so that people had that much more time to work themselves into a frenzy. I\u2019d want nothing more than for the riots I\u2019d helped the whole world anticipate to take place after dark so that the rioting protesters were lit by the flames of the fires they\u2019d predictably started.<\/p>\n

Because I\u2019d know that the throngs of an enraged black populace lit by fires in the dead of night would strike fear into the people watching the news at home. That they\u2019d look less like distraught citizens and more like wild savage animals, and that the viewers at home would think warm thoughts about the police whose job it was to protect them from the mobs.<\/p>\n

Right or wrong. Black and white. Even the safety of the police officers manning the safety checkpoints wouldn\u2019t matter to me as long as it made for good TV watching and kept people from questioning anything that the police might do in retaliation.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know why the reading of the verdict was delayed until such a politically and news broadcast convenient time, but if I were a PR guru I might. Then again, I could be wrong. I might just be cynical about the whole blasted affair.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"