re: #63 jaunte

Nope. His “customers” weren’t businesses. They were the white communities surrounding Ferguson. His job, as he saw it, was to contain the situation to Ferguson, at all costs. And that meant coming down hard, merited or not.

There’s a whole lot of racism involved here, from the white flight that changed the local demographics in short order, to the education system that has been filleted and gutted (which is a disaster in its own right).