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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

There is no organization, no groups of people, I have been in a few riots and lack of organization is literally there defining feature, what is happening is any large crowd draws in a few morons who turn to breaking things quickly when they realise the cops can't stop them, that in turn draws in a few more who might not have thought about breaking stuff when they went on the march but are happy to get pulled in once it starts, it doesn't take many, they are drawn to the points of trouble by the noise and the shouting and become a crowd within the larger crowd.

What we will see as these protests go on is more trouble as every idiot kid who doesn't give a tinkers about George Floyd will be turning out to the protests in order to 'have some fun', the trouble ends up causing an expectation of trouble that itself becomes a self fulfilling prophesy but there is no organization at all, I knew there would be trouble in Vancouver in 2011 long before the game started, all of my foster kids (who are the kind of kids that like to break things) were talking about 'do you think there will be another riot?', that conversation was happening all over Vancouver and it made trouble inevitable, and yes if the Nucks make another final if the VPD aren't totally on top of things there will be another riot in Vancouver solely because people expect it.

While not phrasing it as “how to start a riot”, the same concept applies: