To bring the metaphor back into the realm of reality, the rioters were not protesting their harsh parenting, they were simply misbehaving. The idea that these riots had any political or social impetus remains a purely self-serving speculation.
Despite the fact that these riots took place in the full sunlight of modern cities, no evidence has yet emerged that any of the participants of the riots were even remotely aware of the motives that apologists have attributed to them.
We are asked to accept as self-evident truth that these riots are an eruption of discontent and the inevitable consequence of structural social injustice. If so, where was the anger? Where were the slogans? Over and over again, the images and accounts just reveal gleeful and random mayhem.
Even if we were to accept that structural social injustice is somehow to blame, that does not excuse random mayhem. It doesn’t even mollify it.