article_snippet.sent: We let things get out of hand.
article_snippet.sent: We created a culture of such deep distrust and disrespect that violence seemed the inevitable response.
article_snippet.sent: We let the violence flow.
article_snippet.sent: We let that violence stand for everything that's wrong with the things We already didn't like.
article_snippet.sent: We created a polity in which racial inequity and economic inequality magnify each other unrelentingly.
article_snippet.sent: Every time protests and violence break out in response to police brutality, the same depressing pattern breaks out.
article_snippet.sent: Both a history of police brutality and a present crisis of street violence.
article_snippet.sent: Both an inherited, multigenerational lack of opportunity and a dearth of leaders willing to address it.
article_snippet.sent: We can't judge looters for their antisocial behavior without judging a color-caste structure and a school-to-prison pipeline that has flushed their away like so much refuse.