Another man dies at the hands of police under questionable circumstances. Protesters fill the streets, but their pleas are overshadowed by violence, looters, and the responses required to maintain law and order. We saw it in Ferguson and are now seeing it again in Baltimore.
In both cases, it is hard not to shift focus from a death to the looters, seeing them as separate events -- one distracting from the other. However, if we connect all the dots, we may find that both are related.