The media didn't have anything to do with the timing of the release.
obviously not the release, but the media announced early in the day that a decision had been made, thus allowing everyone to get to their looting position (hello, the thread title), before finally announcing late at night.
what were those people going to do I they had indicted the ofc? just go home? lol. they were probably having pre parties, getting high and drinking before heading out, wether they just ended up peacefully protesting, or looting.
and I'm a minority. in reference to the amount of people who use weed and get arrested for it (the disproportionate #): idiots, and I mean Michael brown type idiots that just walk into a convenience store and take shitt and shove the employee, are just too dumb to not get caught. weed stinks, and these idiots openly smoke it in their cars instead of using some discretion. so who do you think the cop is going to search? the rimmed out el dorado reeking of weed or the Saturn that's carefully double bagged their stash and has it hidden? and notice I didn't say black or white. it's fkng cultural. I'd be more concerned with the white guy in tats and baggy pants than a black guy in a business suit holding a coffee. but the problem is while the hip hop culture is now main stream and white people listen to it, the hip hop thug culture is more prevalent and glorified in the black culture.