How is BR and North County St Louis not similar? Why do you think BR will escape all the issues Ferguson experienced?

The protests are starting to look just like STL protest before the acquittal. It was only after the officer's acquittal that protesters became rioters.

Pray your officers are charged or I fear full blown riots are coming to BR.

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Posted by kingbob

Sorrento, LA

Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 7/9/16 at 1:55 pm to mizzoukills

North Baton Rouge is already a place no one wants to live. It already has zero investment in real estate. The rest of the city is far from expensive. The shite schools and poor infrastructure keep prices low relative to most decent cities.

Jobs aren't going anywhere. The main employers here are the plants, state government, and LSU. None of those can leave.

The suburbs are already maxing out. With the road grid the way it is, further white flight is impossible. If they wanted to leave before, they'd already be gone.

The locals aren't violently protesting. Only the outside adgitators. The locals don't want to burn down their own neighborhoods. They saw what happened in Ferguson and want none of it. They will protest for justice, but they will do so peacefully.

Baton Rouge is actually far less segregated than most places. People of different races absolutely must interact in their every day lives. They have no choice. Even if most of the whites stick to the private schools and blacks to the publics, there is still a ton of mixing in civic organizations, sports, and business.

Baton Rouge is nothing like Fergeson. We will get through this and come out the other side no more worse for wear, because we are already the worst possible version of ourselves