Everyone knows that this can happen in almost any inner-city Black neighborhood in America.
All that is needed is an excuse to gather.
Black leaders here complain that businesses will not build in Black neighborhoods, not even grocery stores. I wonder why?
From my source in Toledo, it's a race riot, complete with looting, vandalism and burnt down buildings. The ACLU, NAACP or famous-name activists cannot alter the connotation people create for themselves and non-deserving others. They themselves are responsible for breaking the stereotype. CNN reports indicate the perpetrators blame this on police action. It's always about "police action" it seems.
Like you said, it would have been some other reason if not that one. Being a policeman amidst this type of violence is no picnic. Riots breed distrust, disgust and hatred on all sides of the issues at hand in and of themselves. It's a sad day for Toledo and those involved in instigating the riots.
We lived in Baltimore during the riots of 1968, the thugs destroyed our little community shopping center, we had a pharmacy,grocerystore,hardware,beauty and barber shops etc. family businesses who stayed after the "white flight" prior to the riots; they had been there over 50 yrs, everyone was like family, credit was extended, After the looting and burning, the area never recovered.Our Jewish business owners were so hurt; and we had grown up knowing them and their children.My father got the opportunity to purchase our first home and we left the neigborhood , never to return.There was no reason to loot then, but the agitators and worthless scum saw this as a opportunity and thought they were "entitled to free goods for the years of percieved injustices".My Mom and Dad cried because they never saw their friends, the wonderful shop owners again.