True to Cincinnati style, this happened on Liberty Street, which isn't even an irony. It's a disgusting farce. See, all the rioting from last week, the window smashing and fire setting, it has nothing to do with justice. But it's pretty safe to say, given the mounting evidence, that where the rioters are concerned, nothing has anything to do with justice, because law and order has become a pretense for harassing black folks. Liberty isn't even in the picture.
Justice is out the window.
They have nothing of that sort to preserve or protect. Yes, the unrest was stupid and reckless. The looters and rioters not only don't have a stake in the society, but they've got good reason to suspect that blacks have been tagged as a civic nuisance to be kept in oppressive check by the police. Many Cincinnati cops, if not most, take seriously their charge to preserve public safety, do their work with a sense of proportion and the community is in their debt for undertaking this often thankless, difficult task. And, in any community, kids hanging out in the streets doing nothing is cause for worry.