Back to my favorite scripture, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, there is a time for every matter under heaven.
I'll venture to guess that few of us were actually on the spot witness to the many unthinkably abusive acts by a white cop(s) against a black citizen(s), in real time, over the last five or more decades.
Now is the "time" of cell phones with cameras.
Generally I object to taking advantage of other peoples' misfortunes by snapping unflattering photos for the purpose of subjecting someone to public ridicule. In this case it was a...blessing? A God send? That while bystanders pleaded for the cop to lighten up at least one recorded it? I say yes, because otherwise we the public can go on thinking "how awful" without being confronted so directly with the ugly reality of the mistreatment, literally watching the death of one human at the hands of one who should have been protecting him. This was no movie, this was as real as it gets. One mean spirited cop and three others too cowardly and too uncaring to intervene.
But the looting and destruction of the town, that is as damaging and divisive as the cop's actions.
We all know how hard it is to be a policeman in the line of fire. How they put up with what they have to put up with day after day, I can't fathom. The cop in this situation did a disservice to every other cop. Shame on him and the other cops who did nothing, and shame on the looters.