While I agree that these type should be shot on sight, my experience is that mostly what shooting a few does at this point in a major riot’s development (unless you are the National Guard) is simply make the rest of the mobs displace elsewhere. They don’t just go home or disperse.
Earlier in the process it might have helped.
That's my point on this and other thread? Florence and Normandie avenues were the flash point. I can understand not wanting to inflame that small crowd. However, once Reginald Denny was dragged out of his truck and beaten almost to death, that is when the acting Chief Of Police of LA should have come down on those with the full might of every cop in the city, including live rounds. I also watched the thugs pulling some unknowing guy out of his car and starting to beat him. Some good samaritan black folks came to his rescue.