Ferguson as symbol and Ferguson as a local law-enforcement incident

I'm so up-to-here with, as well as embarrassed about, Ferguson that I hesitate to post about it yet again.  It's just identity politics of the rankest sort, which leads to absurdities such as a white protestor in Los Angeles (these out-of-state and overseas outbursts prove my point that Wilson and Brown are mere vehicles for stoking the fires of balkanization) lecturing a black cop about racism.  Some chick wanted to mire him in a conversation about a "system" and a "structure of power."  I thought the officer handled it splendidly:

The officer answered that he had grown up in Jackson, Mississippi during the Jim Crow era. "I know racism. I can spot it," he said. 

She was not satisfied. "Do you accept that there are covert types of racism?" she asked, citing an example of a woman clutching her purse tightly when he entered an elevator. "Racism is a structure of power," she insisted. "You are a black man. You are kept down by your race, even if you won't accept it."

He threw the challenge back at her. "Think about it. There are people who don't like me--they don't know me--because of my uniform. Is that discrimination or not? Yes or no?" 

"That's a bias," she said. "Job discrimination is different. I'm talking about your race. The color of your skin...You're a black man. You'll never reach the same pinnacle as a white man in this system, because you are black." Others, gathered nearby, applauded loudly.

The officer then asked the student what she did in her free time, noting that he tutored students in his community. 

"Are you helping your black community out?" she demanded. 

"It doesn't matter what the race is," he replied. "Yes it does!" the demonstrators shouted. 

"So I should go to a school and volunteer with all African-American kids...but all the others--the Asian, the Hispanic kids--not help them out? That's wrong," he replied.

"Color is color," she insisted. 

I guess the main question that interests me is the extent to which this thing has legs.  I don't think the blocked freeways or the disrupted shopping are winning any converts.  Side stories, such as the fund to help Natalie's Cakes-n-More rebuild, are stealing oxygen from the Left's narrative.  It seems that Brown's step-father - he of the "burn this bitch down" rant and the beatdown of the tee-shirt-selling granny - has connections to the Bloods gang.

Plus, the world continues to turn.  Iran is crowing about having "defeated" post-America.  Russian warships are conducting exercises in the English Channel.  Pubs have the Constitutional ammo needed to pull the plug on the Most Equal Comrade's amnesty scheme, per the Congressional Research Service.

Identity politics is essential to the Great Leveling Enterprise.  Individuality is an obstacle of the highest magnitude.  Existing and maneuvering through one's life without prior approval from the arbiters as to whether that life is sufficiently black, or female, or gay threatens the plan to redistribute resources from the supposedly privileged to the supposedly aggrieved.  And then the supposedly aggrieved have no reason to feel gratitude and loyalty to the state.  How do you overload the system, per Cloward and Piven, if you don't have an overwhelming mass of recipients of largesse?

That's the deal.  There is no other reason to make a story about a cop who asks a couple of guys to walk on the sidewalk instead of down the middle of the street, gets attacked by one of the guys and has his gun grabbed for, and winds up shooting the guy, about race.

The facts make it plain:  Michael Brown was the bad guy in this incident.