Transition or instability?

There is nothing as cold, cruel and cowardly as pumping six bullets into an unarmed, unresisting suspect – if ever he was one.

But this was the fate of a black American teenager, Michael Brown, a fortnight ago, with a white American policeman pulling the trigger.

People are angry – and rightly so – because of this medieval cruelty in modern times.

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