I was there. I pulled off the expressway and ran right into the early mob. Jerks were running through moving traffic, pounding on them and yelling. It was a disgrageful display of riotous buffoonery. They were only pounding on the cars of old folks, and those that looked foriegn as they were the ones that looked scared and would not protest.
A few hours later there was almost as many police as wack-jobs. A large contingent of state police showed up to back the locals. The foreign born attendant where I bought gas was scared to death from the mob outside. By this time the police had closed the road and filled it with squad cars. This mob was out to vent on foreigners and that's all . The mosque was not the original objective, but came up later as a place to go trash.
The event was a shameful dishonor to the flag and Freedom itself.