I’m putting this in GD as it is at heart a political question but there may well be a GQ answer.
In Northern Ireland, dotted on the yearly calendar are days of events wherein “recreational” rioting often occurs. During Marching Season centred on July 12th, Easter, and on St. Patrick’s Day alongside authorised parades by people on both sides of the community there there’s also often numerous attacks on police. Bottles and other projectiles are thrown, things set on fire, all sorts of shenigans, often fueled by alcohol. It has come to the point in recent years that these activities have become almost a tradition and someone a few years back coined the term recreational rioting. Some of those involved in it have been as young as 10.
I suppose they do, although you don’t hear much about them anymore. They’re usually more about attacking each other though too rather than the police.
These rioters, both loyalist and nationalist typically target the police in NI.
Perhaps the 2011 riots in England might count as “recreational”? I know that they were ostensibly triggered by a police shooting in London, but I’m not sure the vast majority of those involved had that in mind.
I think sports riots are pretty spot on in terms of recreational rioting. I’m reminded of the riot when the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup in Vancouver in 2011. During the day before it seemed like everyone was anticipating one, with the glaring exception of the police.
Berkeley today? Pretty milquetoast compared to the 60s. But yes, there and SF, it seems like some people protest just because they feel they should. I witnessed a recent one protesting against a bank. At a branch that had been permanently closed for some time… :rolleyes:
One year, the Raiders lost some game or another. People rioted. Another year soon after, the Raiders won a game. People rioted.
But of course, for most of these examples it’s random rioting. The OP’s situation has some… history… involved.
Well, it’s the only controversial holiday on the American calendar, unless you count Christmas, which is no better for the northern states, even though drunken rioting on Christmas is actually quite traditional and respectable (well-off people used to shutter their windows on Christmas).
On July 6th, and for almost 100 years, Pamplona’s Mayor and Councilors went to visit the shrine to St Fermin in St Cernin’s Church (are you confused yet?). People would slow their progress, but what started as a joke eventually became agressive, nasty and had as its goal not spending more time singing and dancing, but actually preventing the Corporation from reaching the church. The event has been taken out of the program now.
For Spanish universities, the Fall term starts in early October. Saragossa’s fiestas take place around October 12. Saragossa University’s students have made it a tradition to come up with some reason to strike or other for those two weeks.
Spanish public High School students have a long tradition of striking, marching and rioting “in solidarity with…” anything ranging from the plight of sperm whales to labor conditions in the Maldives. The amount and severity of the actions will vary by location and school. Those in my home town once tried to come to the private HS and provoke us into a fight, but the response they got made them turn tail: 30 years later they haven’t come back (they were chanting “jump jump jump, you’re a Spaniard if you don’t jump, jump jump jump, you’re not Basque if you don’t jump”, and do not ask me what does Basque Independentism have to do with labor conditions for university TAs, which was the theoretical reason behind the strike; we started sitting down; the adult neighbors, including some old folk who’d been sunning themselves on benches, started sitting down as well; the marchers figured it was better to march back).
(they were chanting “jump jump jump, you’re a Spaniard if you don’t jump, jump jump jump, you’re not Basque if you don’t jump”, and do not ask me what does Basque Independentism have to do with labor conditions for university TAs, which was the theoretical reason behind the strike; we started sitting down; the adult neighbors, including some old folk who’d been sunning themselves on benches, started sitting down as well; the marchers figured it was better to march back).