A moral society doesn't sympathize with criminals. It sympathizes with their victims. It doesn't license criminality because it cares about the people who suffer when criminals run wild
The real victim in Baltimore is not Freddie Gray, a repeat loser who eventually died as he had lived, being arrested by the police. The real victims are not the thugs smashing and looting stores. It isn't the young black men disproportionately stopped by the racist majority black police force in Baltimore under a racist black police commissioner for doing nothing wrong except the usual drug and weapons charges.
