I don't think so, not this time. There's been simmering resentment about police brutality ever since Occupy Wall Street. There's been racial tensions ever since Trayvon Martin. And it's the mid-term elections so everyone's looking for a wedge issue. The tremendous overreach by the StLPD is pretty indefensible and the solution involves "taking guns of the streets" (even if they are police weapons and even if those weapons are military surplus). Meanwhile, training up police forces and drawing down SWAT is a jobs program. This is the sort of critical mass the militarization of police problem has been needing for a while now. I suspect we'll be hearing the name "Ferguson" for the rest of the year in some context or another. The Alamo it ain't, but it has all the markings of My Lai.