a different place here but it could easily be detroit or miami;

 

On the nights of March 29th and Tuesday 31st, public disorder broke out in Clapham. Hundreds of largely African-Caribbean heritage youths gathered along the high street (organised as a ‘link up’ beforehand on social media), proceeded to steal from shops and carry out acts of criminal damage – although the primary purpose seems to have been to dominate the public space through force of numbers and menacing behaviour.

The Retail Director of Marks & Spencer, whose Clapham outlet was one of the main targets of the crowd, has directly criticised London Mayor Sadiq Khan for being soft on crime. The police, yet again failing to realise that perception is everything, took a softly-softly approach and made few arrests, promising to feel the collars of the wrongdoers later.

Naturally, liberals have attempted to explain away the mayhem as it simply being a matter of there not being enough ping-pong tables for teenagers. But this was not just youth culture expressing itself. It was a public demonstration of power: brazen, co-ordinated and utterly predictable. These adolescents were sending a message: that the streets can be claimed, rules can be broken and authority can be ignored, all without consequence. And it did not occur in a vacuum. Why are the African-Caribbean youths who rioted last week so disengaged from any sense of British common life, despite being born and brought up in this country?.......more........