Here’s a comment from my friend in the UK after I advised they should switch to real bullets:
“Jack,
We are OK. Unbelievable what is going on. Whilst it is rioting, it nonetheless in truth is a race issue. The Rioters are 90% black/Asian but nobody will mention this and because of this the Police do not use any meaningful force against the rioters. We need the New York police force, they would not stand back and be pelted with bricks by black and Asian teenage rioters.”
He might be wrong about the NYPD but interesting anyway.
He’s wrong about the NYPD. They stood back and let the same ilk stage a pogrom in Crown Heights.