[PapaBear3625]

I wonder if the Black Block, or other radical Left anarchist groups, are using this as an opportunity to practice tactics?

[Ditto]

I wonder if the Black Block, or other radical Left anarchist groups, are using this as an opportunity to practice tactics?

Good possibility. In some of the pics you see young punks wearing the bandannas over their faces typical of the anarchist tactics. I'd be willing to bet that the leftist punks infiltrated a half drunk crowd coming out of bars and such, started the looting and burning knowing that mob psychology would get a lot of other idiots to join in.