They do not want the police to do their jobs of protecting the general public, its properties and even themselves. In this case, they’ve made it where the police can’t do their jobs, and they didn’t, which means the public is on its own for protection.

The so-called parents send their kids out to commit crimes for them and then when something happens, the crocodile tears fall, “What have they done to my baby!”

They don’t act like people; therefore, they don’t deserve to be treated as such. They think they should be allowed or even encouraged to assault police officers: outrageous. Even if I were an 800-pound galumphus, I wouldn’t try that.

Since they like anarchy, they’re also saying they like vigilantism, which has never worked, and they’ve also tried to undo the civil-rights work of the 1960s by making this a racial issue.

If the reverse happened, would there be a massive white riot? What a bunch of criminal morons.

Trashing a city will increase people’s insurance costs; therefore, there should be a gigantic class-action lawsuit against the president, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, the Black Panthers and all other progressives who caused this. The criminals at the top are using the criminals at the bottom to further enrich and empower themselves at everybody else’s expenses. None of them ever pays for the damages they’ve caused. The Ferguson fiasco is progressive utopia at work, and this also proves that none of them wants any control of criminals, only innocents. They created this crisis, and now Holder wants more control of racial profiling, but it was one defenseless white guy who was profiled in Ferguson!

They say there needs to be a change. They’re the ones who need to change – not Darren Wilson and everybody else. More diversity on the force won’t help, either.

John Feazel

Pagosa Springs