By which side?
Is it? Your Stormfront accusation notwithstanding, this trial is 100% about race, as was the OJ trial and the Rodney King trial. In the latter case there was a riot, and in the former a riot was expected if they returned a guilty verdict. They’ve been asking this question for months in the media, and the question is perfectly valid.
I think there will be some modest rioting, some small property damage and the like, akin to a sports riot, but I can’t imagine that it will be widespread. There’s always some knucklehead, no matter what race, who uses something like this as an excuse to go nuts.
Can our central Florida Dopers check in and let us know if you’re alright, as with the not guilty verdict, surely half the state is in flames by now.
I live in Lake Mary. Nothing’s happened so far. I’m kind of disappointed :’(
(Though I half expect something to happen tomorrow.)
What I thought is that there’d be more or less peaceful protests with a few anarchists trying to turn them ugly. Not so far, except in Oakland, which is predictable.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/zimmerman-protests-turn-violent-oakland/nYqFL/
Howdy, neighbor. I live in Oviedo!
My wife and I were outside smoking when the verdict was read, and that appears to be as close as we got to the county going up in flames.
You’re obviously wrong. Didn’t you read the posts in here? There will be no violet protests.
You clearly didn’t.
Well, so far as I expected. A few arrests here and there as in a large enough protest demonstration there’s always some doofus who wants to throw/break stuff, but no large scale civil disorder.
From here.
I assume this is not a riot.
Just out of curiosity, though, can you share with me some neutral criteria for determining when “riot” has actually been reached?
When the first Molotov is tossed?
That seems like a pretty limiting definition of a riot to me.
Is that what everyone else had in mind? Kinda like ‘it ain’t a party until something gets broke?’ “It’s not a riot until some throws a Molotov?”
That was a joke. Oxford gives us this definition:
I guess the question of whether we had riots in LA depends on how many constitute a crowd.
Haha. Folks sure seem thirsty for a riot, boy! How about we wait until the riots are so riotty that there’s no denying there’s a riot. If we have to sit here trying to find the precise riot line, it’s not a damn riot.
I don’t mean to be contentious, but in my opinion, the news accounts so far meet any reasonable definition of “a crowd,” in my opinion.
It’s funny how so many of the right-wingers seem to be just frothing at the mouth for some black folks to start looting.
I would have said we’re there already, but since that shows my “riot meter” is poorly calibrated, I decided to ask for some more concrete definitions.
I haven’t been watching it on TV. I would say only the people who are actually rioting count as part of the crowd, rather than everyone who’s there protesting.
No.
What I don’t like is people who are not accountable for their predictions. According to Honesty, predicting rioting was a racist reaction, and there would be no rioting.
Thus far, we have had:
[ul]
[li]Over a dozen arrests[/li][li]over ten thousand dollars in damage to just one of the businesses involved[/li][li]the police declaring an unlawful assembly and ordering dispersal[/li][li]“LAPD officers swarmed a Walmart near Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza after a group attempted to enter the store. Another skirmish line was established at the entrance of the parking lot.”[/li][li]a news crew assaulted as they were covering the…um…“event.”[/li][/ul]
And this is not a riot.
Is it really unfair of me to ask, “OK, what is?”
Sure, I agree - there are peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights. They are clearly not part of the crowd. But watching te video of the police repelling the cr…er, the “group” attempting to get into Walmart, it sure seemed to me like that “group” was a crowd.
Probably because I am racist, and stuff. Probably if the group had been Hispanic I would never have thought they were a crowd.
Come on. Can anyone acknowledge that maybe, just maybe there’s a tiny itsy bitsy insignificant riot described here?