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Riots

Why do they happen?

By Bishesta PaudelPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
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Riots is done by accumulating large numbers of crowds in an area where the police cannot act quickly, and the cost of starting a revolt begins to decline as soon as a participant discovers that. Members of the mob who know more about the intentions of other people than people who know the intentions of strangers alone can issue a signal that sends a signal to people who know that an uprising is imminent.

Even if the people involved in the riots have not yet met, they may be associated with an underlying social problem or grievance. People with no economic opportunity can join the protests because they have nothing to lose, and the middle and upper class tend to stay away from violent incidents because their lives have come to an end.

At the same time, the history of racial violence in the United States since the 1960s shows that while rebellious people may feel short-term happiness, they do long-term damage to the communities they represent and their anger. These communities have long been in a state of economic and social turmoil as a result of the crisis, and none of them seem to care, not even herself. The racial turmoil in the United States has occurred because civil society organizations have ignored the health of black people and the self-confidence of the people themselves and the legal system.

Historians and experts say that this type of violence is not the result of arbitrary violence but of people using difficult circumstances to steal and destroy property. They argue that riots occur when groups are deprived of opportunities and feel that there is no other way to express their anger. The white supremacy of the blacks in the 1940s and the black uprising of property and police in the 1960s and today are not the same kind of urban violence.

Racial discrimination and poverty may be justified as a public concern, but they have nothing to do with why people with that attitude are rebellious. Social justice disturbances often show that people are destroying their communities in less productive ways.

Some experts have likened the 2011 riots in England, where peaceful protests turned into days of chaos and widespread looting after a man was shot dead by police and burning buildings. Riots and looting are often the results of peaceful protests that fail to bring about change or that attempt to make its voice heard. McCone's report, which focuses on urban violence, states that riots are riots and that riots are mindless diseases.

Incidents such as Floyd's death are becoming "exciting moments" because they symbolize the vast majority of people 'knowledge about the relationship between the police and black communities, "said Prof Clifford Stott, a sociologist, social, and police officer at Keele University. . In other words, chaos is a symptom of a major underlying problem, not a problem in itself.

Like a disease, economic disaster, and war, chaos is often the result of interdependence. It is different from official protests and protests because violence often occurs spontaneously. It usually takes an incident to start a riot, such as an accident or a police raid to kill an innocent person.

Professor Hunt investigated the 1992 riots in Los Angeles with four white police officers released from the beating of a black driver, Rodney King. The riots lasted for six days, killing more than 60 people and injuring thousands. This led to the release of the police who recorded the video beating King and another black man while chasing them at high speed. There are riots in the modern era when the public sees pictures of white police officers with a black man whose neck begs him not to breathe and die.

The result was turbulent days in which more than 50 people were killed, more than 2,300 were injured, and thousands were arrested. In 1992, six days of unrest in southern Los Angeles erupted, killing more than 60 people and injuring thousands. Professor Stott, who investigated the England riots in 2011, found that the riots were exacerbated by the fact that protesters in various cities were identified by their ethnicity and hated the police.

Within days, riots erupted, burning cars, looting and damaging grocery stores, liquor stores, supermarkets, and grocery stores. The six-day protest claimed the lives of 34 people and resulted in more than a thousand reported injuries to 4,000 prisoners before orders were issued again on August 17. More than 1,100 buildings were damaged, and the cost of damage exceeded $ 1 billion, making the Los Angeles riots in 1992 one of the most destructive civil unrest in American history.

In particular, mistrust of the police and certain incidents of police violence are important, he said. In an article on Ferguson protests, he wrote that violent conflicts with police in 2015 led to riots in Baltimore, riots in Ferguson in 2014, Harlem Riot in 1964, Watts Riot in 1965, and Newark Riot in 1967, among others. Although recent upheavals may have been fueled by age-related problems, they were probably triggered by a single incident.

While it is easy to blame the riots for vandalism, which leads to more violence and chaos, this undermines the fact that riots are a complex, profound form of violence, the result of many factors. Understanding conflict means understanding the causes of social anger, racism, poverty, or lack of economic opportunities, and how people deal with and deal with it in a harmful way. Just as there is chaos, civil strife presents a social crisis that reflects the government's inability to control the order and functioning of the economy.

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