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Originally Posted by iheartthed
How is "riot" defined? Many people have conflated protesting with rioting. The 2020 rioting in NYC was mild by NY's historical standards, but the protests were massive.
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Hard to quantify. NYC was in mandatory curfew similar to LA, and what was going on was pretty crazy. The police simply did not respond and let people loot. The news never showed the footage, but people were posting it on Tiktok, liveleak, and such (all other social media was taking it down due to showing violence). There were literally people trying to run over people with cars at full speed. There was one video of a car running full speed at a line of NYPD officers at night in the Bronx during curfew, hitting two of them. It was crazy. Unless you were watching it live on Tiktok as it was happening, you couldn't really see what was going on around LA, NYC, Minneapolis, Seattle, etc. I think the only video that got out to mainstream news was the one in LA where the car hit the girls on the highway. There were also videos of people shooting into crowds, into buildings, people robbing trains, etc.
There was another crazy one (I think somewhere on the west coast) where people swarmed a big trailer truck and the truck driver just floored the gas. I don't know if mainstream news showed it.