Well, racism can never be fully squashed but when the response to one person (that cop) doing something that appears racist - and we don't have any idea if he would have been just as aggressive or not with a white guy - is to steal and burn and destroy things at random... that isn't helping race relations at all. The government response is simply going to be to have more control and less freedom. Plus those cities that normally had nice storefronts are all going to install riot proof doors now kind of like how we have in Thailand and that is just ugly.
You are right! I agree we are not well versed with the reality from both the sides.