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I am still wondering what the folks doing the rioting and looting were thinking, what kinds of stories they were telling themseves in their heads.
Lore is, england is the most highly surveiled country in the world - did they not know they would be on cameras and likely be tracked down afterwards?
I saw some photos of a boy setting a store on fire, then standing there, face in full view, watching it burn.
What was the culture that made this seem like a good idea? If it was just dumbness, what does that say about the society that produced such dumb people?
The lenient on minors thing explains some of it - but why would kids decide to rampage? (I've watched a few vids, about a 16 year old girl the cops beat up, with commentary suggesting the rapid passing along of that video was a spark. But what poured on the gasoline that the spark ignited?)
I"m still waiting for followup articles that try to explain all this.
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