Violent Protest and the Intelligentsia

Main Street: Ordinary Americans objecting to resume the economy face just contempt from elites. Images: AFP/Getty Composite: Mark Kelly.

The resemblances between this week’s riots and the Los Angeles riots of 1992 are obvious. Both were occasioned by dreadful video images, and both divided the nation along partisan and ideological lines. The differences between the 2 occasions, however, are more revealing. The violence in 1992 followed a court decision; the pounding and arrest of Rodney King had occurred more than a year before. This year’s riots came within days of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis officers. The riots of 1992 were primarily confined to poor and working-class areas of Los Angeles. Today saw trouble all over America, and in Los Angeles, …

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