Uh and the utter lack of a natural disaster. Oh and massive looting. If you want to compare the footage of the looting that took place during th LA riots to the footage of the looting that took place during the LA riots I am sure I could dig up some footage. There were literall thousands of people looting in LA. People were driving in from the suburbs to loot. I have seen maybe a couple hundred people looting in NO. Entire blocks were burning for days on end in LA. I haven't seen that in NO.
I'm talking about the behavior of the people, not the effects. There's no difference in motivation or behavior at all. I saw a lot of people that night.