but the protests we saw in ferguson, missouri, combined with the police reaction to those protests turned into the first rioting over police use of deadly force that occurred since the invention of cable news and the internet and social media. there was no cable news to cover the rioting in miami in 1980 after the arthur mcduffy case or many of the other cases that occurred in those days. and so the mcduffy case remained a mostly local story. america did not wake up then to the problems associated with police use of deadly force. but four years ago, the cable news media immediately descended on ferguson where we were reporting live from the streets every day and night of the unrest and barack obama became the first president of the united states to publically discuss police use of deadly