Downtown beating witness: 'They were going to kill that young man'

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5. I don't disagree

And I don't actually think Johnson was defending what happened. But unfortunately, we live in a world where people's perception of something matters more than the reality.

And when the mayor and waiting says I"t is it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities," might leave the impression that he cares more about the people committing violence then the people are affected by the violence.

Also, you have to ask where were those kids parents? Mr Johnson's kids I think are really young and not old enough to be left unsupervised. But hypothetically, if they were and participated in that chaos something tells me they would be in deep shit when they got home.