The rioting and looting in Oakland, California was pre-planned. The authorities also knew this, as their preparations (and the preparations of local businesses) occurred prior to a verdict being issued regarding this:
“A Los Angeles jury deliberated for about six hours over two days before reaching their decision about the shooting on a train platform in Oakland, indicating they deemed it a tragic accident rather than the intentional act of a rogue cop.
The defendant in the racially charged trial, Johannes Mehserle, 28, testified that he mistakenly drew his gun instead of his electric Taser and shot Oscar Grant, 22, while trying to subdue him during a confrontation on New Year’s Day 2009.” (from http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66763A20100709)
Such a thing is an opportunity to live out rebellion and wickedness in public, in Oakland. But the striking thing to me is in addition to all this, there was the ever-flashing cameras and video. Journalists and reporters had cameras, bystanders had them, but even the rioters and looters had them!
“Dude, here I am kicking in a Foot Locker window right before I grab me a $100 pair of shoes!” To have the forethought to pack a camera in addition to spray paint and gasoline spray bottles, indicates something more sinister than mere frustration venting is at hand. Let’s do some evil tonight!
Psalm 92:7
…that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;
Peace,
Jim
