The OWS types in Europe have this down pat. They prepare the dumpsters in advance. This is done by “throwing away” several cardboard boxes followed by a gallon of diesel fuel followed by two old automobile tires. Then at the right time, one of the OWS pukes “disposes” a lit road flare in the prepared dumpster. How was he to know?
It's all residential ~ well tended, cut lawns, bushes, everything nice and neat ~ just to the North there's a small shopping center where you could presumably find a dumpster ~ and those things catch fire all the time everywhere ~ particularly on weekends when there are no scheduled pickups.
I do not know anything about adjoining neighborhoods, but all that seems to have happened here is the cops saw a 'suspect'. He ran. The cops shot him.
So, the claim is he was unarmed, the cops turned their dogs loose on a woman with her baby (Film at 11:00 no sh-t!) then the cops fired rubber bullets at the neighbors gathered to watch.
I guess a sort of panic ensued.
About that time I'd imagine you and I would be finding some dumpsters to barricade each end of the street to keep out more cops.
There were a dozen or more cops parked there all night last night ~ like maybe they were waiting on the warrants to do a house to house search or something ~