More information here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255705/posts?page=203#203
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255431/posts?page=107#107
I should've known that FReepers would be on top of it faster than Drudge.
Your posts did not come up when I searched the word "riots" before posting.
Maybe because those comments were way down in a particular thread, and not in the title.
I don't know why they weren't found in the search.