The looters were from outside the area and were all criminals.
The shooting of Michael Brown had nothing to do with it except for in the MSM reports. The stores looted and cars attacked had nothing to do with the killing. It was just an excuse for criminals to be criminals.
The little city of E. St. Louis, Il. gets way too much credit for being bad a$$ - population 26,708. Just slightly more than Ferguson, Mo. population 21,203.