Why do people feel the need to riot instead of protest?

[Amandistan]

I completely understand the anger and frustration going on in Ferguson Missouri at the moment. I also don't think firing several shots was just self-defense and believe that it is a major injustice.

 However, i don't see why people feel the need to burn people's businesses down and use violence. Some of these people have spent their lives working hard to get there. People of all races in fact.  I just read about a crying woman who worked hard for her cake shop to have it burnt to the ground. Her insurance will not cover it. People like this do not deserve this and it is an injustice to them. It's like the use a tragedy to steal a television or p.c.

Instead of voicing their anger in a constructive manner and work toward a positive change, they become violent an destructive. Against the advice of an sensible people.Even the parents of Micheal Brown discouraged  it. If this sort of thing happens, nothing will ever change. This only gives racists more ammo.

It just makes nothing better and nothing will ever change. History just keep repeating itself. Maybe humanity really is hopeless. 

[Pol]

I guess people are very angry Would the same thing happened if it was a black cop shooting a white kid ? I agree the policeman was put in a very difficult situation and that they are trained to shoot to kill. Did he really need to fire 12 times  ?
Others people just leech on to protests and have their own agenda. There was no need to loot shops etc. I'm just glad that the UK has some of the toughest gun controls in the world.
Some people are just using what happened as an excuse

[Pol]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HF7e2rgzsrU

[Heno]

i dunno

i used to think that protests were for people who wanted to make a point but if ignored just went home again. and then realised that protest has real power if it is supported enough. if as much energy went in the protest and people got off their arse then it might address some things. but at the end of the day if you are protesting for something that ultimately oyu must accept and are willing to do so then you have to question the point in the first place.

i get concerned about rioting especially when the press are involved. some rioting may actually be genuine distaste for human rights abuses or the like. and not just opportunists looking to loot. but others just look like they are up for it. all that said, in the most recent riots in inner city london, if was very apparent that the looting was to get what would usually be unattainable for the looters. there chance to have what mtv are shoving down their neck all the time.

maybe you never know until you are in the middle of it

we have water protests going on here at the moment and it is very clear the press are on the side of the state and are playing it all down and measuring outcry by numbers and not passion. irish people are funny old lot. we have this inbuilt poxy church led guilt which doesn't allow to share our fears or concerns and certainly never let ourselves down in front of her from number 41 or anyone else we know. and its such a small place there is no anonymity.

[Rusco]

maybe you never know until you are in the middle of it

I've been there once. The police shot one rioter. Luckily he didn't die. The whole area of the city was sieged by hundreds of containers and even the locals couldn't get out, if they'd tried. It was really mental. No one couldn't trust anyone and people went paranoid,  whether they were rioters or not.

Posttraumatic state lasted one week after it.

[Master Ray]

Some people just adore violence.  They will inflict it any chance they get and if they can wrap it up in some sad silly justification that might get them some chits if they get slung in a courtroom for it, so much the better.

 

[Ron B]

Some people just adore violence.  They will inflict it any chance they get and if they can wrap it up in some sad silly justification that might get them some chits if they get slung in a courtroom for it, so much the better.

 

Excellent Point . Well said Ray and may I add that you have to learn to see the real protestors who are  peacefully protesting what they feel is an injustice from those that are just thugs looking for an excuse to rob and loot. Some are plain out anarchist who don't need a protest to start trouble they just want to see the world Burn. And I will say why they made the announcement so late in the evening I will never know I am in New York this is in Missouri they are an hr behind us so it say 8pm Central it is 9pm my time that gave the thugs  the cover of night totally a  stupid mistake and why they did not have the National Guard in the major areas well that is something for the State to explain.

[Rusco]

Quite many of the anarchists I've met and know would judge such destroying of shops. I don't know is it the case and haven't seen the videos. When I was in Gothenburg nearly 15 years ago during an EU meeting there were people who smashed the banks but quite many who refused about attacking other firms.

[Heno]

i think its unfair to anarchism to suggest that it has anything to do with rioting or violent protest. in fact anarchy is totally the opposite.

anarchism, just like atheism, has been vilified and scourged too long by those who fear an independent view that is not in line with corporate or societal ambitions