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Not exactly the classiest guy and nobody I'd want as a next door neighbor but a few things:
1. Anyone committing arson KNEW is was a crime regardless of what the step dad said. They are truly the guilty ones.
2. Although calling for rioting is a crime, I tend to give people suffering a recent death of a loved one some leeway when no one was harmed as a direct result of their actions, at least until some time has passed.
3. That naturally leads to this question: Would the rioters have rioted anyway or where they just going to get together and sing cum ba ya but were driven to barbarism by Michael Brown's stepdad? I personally then no.
If your loved one dies, would you be screaming to burn down your town? Would any of us here?
He chose his words and he should be responsible for them. He is not a child, even if people want to treat him like one.