>>>>Tamar
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>>>LOL.... Burning things, smashing windows, and running someone down with an auto is not rioting? What world are you living in?
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>>Rioting is groups of people committing violence. Burning effigies is not rioting.
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>Tamar, sorry, but this is the kind of nonsense that Melissa Harris Perry used to push. She used to downplay physical violence against buildings if no one was injured.
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Just want to be sure you think it's riot, too, when a team's fans celebrate a championship by breaking windows and overturning cars?

Or when a pumpkin festival turns violent: http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-new-hampshire-pumpkin-riots-20141019-story.html

>In most parts of the country there are going to be laws against burning (and destruction of property). "Rioting" almost sounds like a political term. The bottom line is that people can and should be arrested and charged for burning effigies and destroying property - regardless of the whim of people like MHP and her followers.

I agree about destruction of property. I don't understand why burning effigies would be a crime.

Tamar