> At first, the crowd was quiet, even peaceful, he said. But as night dropped, more began showing up. And cops came, too, with riot gear and assault rifles.
You lied. You said they were already rioting before the police turned up in riot gear.
There's no point continuing the conversation with someone willing to mislead.
And so what if he did rob a shop? The penalty for that is arrest, charge, trial, conviction, punishment. Not drag to the back of a police car, shoot him in the head.
The riots occurred after the cops murdered an unarmed black man. But why even try to argue about the causality? The fact is people are alienated from society, and consequently give no fucks about society's rules or expectations.
If you want people to care about your shit, they need to have some stake in it, some meaningful reason to respect it.
> At first, the crowd was quiet, even peaceful, he said. But as night dropped, more began showing up. And cops came, too, with riot gear and assault rifles.