As you said, this was encouraged by TPTB.
Obama, et. al., are instigating events like this for further the collapse of this society (Cloward-Pivan). In their eyes, the more chaos, especially against the Constitution-loving-law-abiding whites who would oppose his fascist takeover, the better.
Here he is with Ukraine's Poroshenko regarding Maidan and was big also in the Orange Revolution........