"Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned. We should not turn a blind eye to them."
OK. But where were these people, and the extra police,
when there was excessive violence for years directed against ordinary
people by Lebanese gangs?
when the police gave up on trying to control the gangs, they left law and order in the hands of the mob. And a mob is what they got.
The officials also REMOVED handguns from the common man; so the average man has no defence from these thugs.
An armed society, is a polite society.