“Can anyone sue these parents for raising kids who are too stupid to leave a party when it turns into a riot?”
Ya ever been walking home with no idea something like that is going on, turned a corner, and been overrun by a swarming mob of idiots — and cops chasing them?
I have.
Yes, I was young, dumb, and not situationally aware at the time. Still glad all I got was some tear gas from a cannister fired off by the pursuing police.
PS It was a Fourth of July celebration in a major city, and that answers the whole “how didn’t you hear it coming” thing.
Same here. I was at Northeastern University in Boston during the 1970 Cambodia rioting. One night I was waiting out in front of the school at the trolley stop on Huntington Avenue after a few hours at the library when a small crowd of SDS provocateurs and their supporters fled by my toward their Hemenway Street refuge. Close behind was a pursuing crowd of Tactical Police Force cops in hot pursuit. My long hair, pea coat and camouflage pants apparently qualified me as a legitimate law enforcement target, despite my armful of books. I was clubbed to the ground by a passing cop.
It happens.
Three friends and I almost walked into a post Rodney King riot in Atlanta, unknowingly. One man was killed, and others injured.
Had, we stuck together and fought the mobsters, we would have been fine, though. Mob dynamics are such that weaker individuals are mainly attacked. A group that would stand and fight are not a tempting target.
Ok, and did you ever think of suing the police?