Through all the fire and smoke and anger and fear and frustration–and through all the shouting–if we saw as God sees, what might we see? Everyone sees a police force that shows evidence of misconduct or poor conduct, particularly where African-Americans are concerned. We might also see a community that has had racial divide, enforced in the early part of the twentieth century by a fence that separated blacks from whites with a gate that was locked every evening until the 1940s. And ever since has been home to racial tensions. We might also see a dysfunctional family, in which a…