Ward 1:  I sent this to Who let the dogs out"  thought I'd share it w/you as well.  Who:  I think we could spend unending time blaming each other.....liberals blame the conservatives; conservatives blame the liberals; Blacks blame the police; police blame the Black community.  Republicans blame President Obama; Democrats blame President Bush. and so forth.  What would it accomplish?  A great deal......and none of it good.  How about us all looking at the situation and trying to do our small part to help make things better.  Things are a real mess. The level of trust between the police and much of the Black community is a as low a level as I've seen since the pre-Civil Rights days.  I we can't all work together to make things better, they're only going to get worse.  I agree with your (unstated) suggestion.....we do, indeed, need to ratchet-down the rhetoric.  regards, Gary