Examining and re-examining a culture of nearly unmitigated failure is boring.And, as the posted piece illustrates, leads to leftists engaging in acts of literary masturbation that are extremely boring (and painful) for the reader to watch... though presumably it was "good" for the author.
As for the riots themselves, my brother lived (and still lives) in LA at the time and he told me that during that time the local news media discovered the "trick" of flying a helicopter above a storefront of an as-yet-unattacked store and filming it, while the TV announcer said something like "look, here's a corner that is safe, just to show you there are parts of this area that have no riots", so they could be there when the rioters, getting the news on their own TVs, rushed to loot the unoccupied building with the news helicopter getting live coverage of the initial breakin.
A symbiotic relationship between the high-ranking filth and the low-ranking filth.
I wonder how much of the left-wing self-abuse literature mentions THAT little tidbit.
Hint: none.
That’s amazing, that the broadcast media would do something like that.