re: #935 iossarian

The London thing feels a bit different though. In the case of anti-war marches etc., there’s usually a more obvious split between the earnest protestors and the smash things up crowd.

In Tottenham, I don’t think the line is quite as bright.

I think you’re right - it was a total extrapolation (which I did note.) The last big protest in Oakland (not counting the recent police killing last week of a young man in Hunter’s Point) had similar circumstances.

BART Police shot and killed a man, Oscar Grant, lying face down on a BART platform, hands behind back, everybody watching; they moved the cop trial to LA; the filth walked with involuntary manslaughter, and so “riots” broke out, mostly broken windows and other b.s. vandalism; most arrested causing problems were out of towners.