[Cronos]

Comments from the comment section

• There is no justification for rioting, looting and the destruction of property, and particularly not the death of an armed drug dealer.
  
  This is a shameful article
• I have never felt the need to burn and trash other people's property because the police killed an armed gangster

  I cannot disagree more with this justification of wanton violence

• My memory of the Riots was young people stealing things and damaging property ("taxing free stuff", as it was described to me) all over London

  Everywhere except Eltham, where the English Defence League prevented damage to the streets and property

  Funny who the bad guys are portrayed to be

• I think Dalston was fine as well as the local Turkish and Kurdish population (who actually work for a living) banded together to keep them away
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8692317/Dalston-communtiy-show-off-weapons-in-stand-against-London-rioters.html
• Garbage. Tell that to the people who had their shops smashed up, or the kids who were mugged, or the pensioner who was killed in Ealing.
  
  It wasn't a revolt, it wasn't an uprising, it was idiots nicking stuff and mugging people because they thought they could get away with it. You might have felt poetically empowered but the rest of us felt like shit watching our city get smashed up and our local businesses get terrorised.
  
  This kind of thing just encourages people by dressing thuggery up as revolution.
• Write this story again, but this time tell it through the lives of the Asian family in Birmingham whose son was killed by the rioters. Tell them their son was killed because people couldn't afford the TV they saw in Curry's or the pair of trainers they saw in Sports Direct. Try and do this or more likely think about trying to do this. If you have any sense of humanity you will be deeply ashamed.
• Samuel Ashdown: You're looking at this in too small a field of view. Stealing from nike doesn't need to drive nike prices up. They sell hundreds of millions of items a year at enormous profits. And to be honest, i don't find stealing especially morally wrong. The social impact of a riot or unrest of this scale eclipses the retail effects. There is not just hoardes of people who feel entitled to free things wandering around waiting for a catalyst, there are social factors that cause this type of thing.

[CincyRichieRich]

No where in the bible or any laws, does it say, ‘except for rioting’

[rochester_veteran]

This article reminds me of the way the local media, SJWs and even Mayor Lovely Warren tried to portray the 1964 Rochester, NY Riots as some sort of noble rebellion on the 50th anniversary of the riots in 2014.

July 64 - Rochester Remembers

I was 8 years old when those riots occurred and my family and I lived within 1 1/2 miles of the epicenter and it was a scary time! That neighborhood where it started has never recovered! Prior to the riots, it had a thriving commercial district of mainly Jewish business owners and they were targeted, looted and set on fire. The National Guard was called in to help restore order and it was the first time troops were dispatched to a Northern city since the Civil War.

The revisionists who try to portray wanton violence, looting, arson and destruction as some sort of a noble rebellion are liars and idiots!

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, the silly Guardian! They took away my posting privileges years ago. Read it on the weekend when the conservatives are home from work and post comments. The layabouts post all week long.

[uncbob]

Philadelphia had a riot in the early 60s
Mainly Jewish merchants were being burned out and looted
Future Police Chief and future Mayor Frank Rizzo then a captain had them under control early until ordered to Stand Down by the Politicians
Went on for about 3 days

Then came MLK’s murder
Rizzo was now police chief and Mayor Tate had the sense to give him free reign

Big Frank made the announcement
NOBODY is looting or burning this city PERIOD

And nobody did even though nationwide major cities burned

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[bert]

——There is no justification for rioting——

Actually, there is.

Rioting is akin to striking. Workers have no control over their destinies and build up all sorts of grievance, real and imagined. They go on strike, withhold their labor. It is the only actual power an individual posses. The strike is recognized by both business and labor unions as a popoff valve, a means to release the pressure.

A riot is similar in purpose albeit more dangerous and certainly more destructive. The riot is a social safety valve that pops off when pressures have reached an intolerable level. Imaginations have been stroked to maximum levels in past months

American cities will pop off in the next thirty days.

[johniegrad]

But erased from this narrative was a declaration on gross consumerism reserved for the wealthy, yet pushed upon the working classes who simply couldn’t afford what they have been instructed to believe is necessity.

What a warped worldview.

The "working classes" either lack the free will to live within their means or are too stupid to make prudent decisions.

This exemplifies the soft bigotry of low expectations.

[originalbuckeye]

Just wanted to point out that the author’s last name is Suleyman. There’s the reason for the tone of this article.

[Oatka]

I did not look at him. I simply anticipated the moment it would happen:

Typical liberal, the willing victim.

[farming pharmer]

The F’ing idiots in Detroit are now calling the ‘67 riots an ‘uprising’.