I've been so busy the last week or two that I've not followed the news much, but I did hear about the riots a short while ago.
It strikes me as being not that much different than the sort of situations we've seen in Britain where teenagers have been killed after trying to outrun the police in a stolen car and then certain sections of the public have decided it's all the police's fault.
I seem to recall there were riots in one of the northern cities some months back after just such an incident.