I had not heard anything about this until reading Komrade's post here recently. While watching the news today, I heard a great deal more about it. The whole issue seems to be growing completely out of hand, as usually happens in a situation of this type it seems. That is sad too. Sometimes it looks like we haven't made any progress at all in regards to race, respecting others, abiding by the laws of the land, etc.
While the original act may not have been the right thing to do or handled wrongly to begin with, that still does not make it right to handle the situation or retailiate with violence also. A crime is a crime and should be treated as such and the appropriate punishment handed down, in my opinion.
And, didn't the original "message" of some race supporters in the beginning talk about or had the premise of issues like this to be carried out with " non-violence". It seems all we see on TV these days is violence, and very little "non-violence".
Anyway, it is a sad news item, I think, but one that probably will be, and has been, multiplied many times in different ways and different areas and that will seemingly never go completely away.
Also, I think CNN (channel 39) is doing a show on this tonight at 7 p.m. called "Jenna 6", I believe, if anyone is interested.