Riot

Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private. Targets can include shops, cars, restaurants, state-owned institutions, and religious buildings. Urban riots are provoked by conditions such as discrimination, poverty, poor living conditions, governmental oppression, taxation or conscription. Sports riots may happen as a result of teams contending for a championship, a long series of matches, or scores that are close.

About Riot in brief

Summary Riot Riots typically involve destruction of property, public or private. Targets can include shops, cars, restaurants, state-owned institutions, and religious buildings. Food riots are caused by harvest failures, incompetent food storage, hoarding, poisoning of food, or attacks by pests like locusts. In a race riot, race or ethnicity is the key factor. Sports riots may happen as a result of teams contending for a championship, a long series of matches, or scores that are close. Almost all sports riots in the United States occur in the winning team’s city. Student riots are riots precipitated by students, often in higher education, such as a college or university. Urban riots are provoked by conditions such as discrimination, poverty, poor living conditions, governmental oppression, taxation or conscription, conflicts between ethnic groups or religions, the outcome of a sporting event or frustration with legal channels through which to air grievances. During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, 2,383 people were injured, more than 12,000 arrested, 63 people were killed and over 700 businesses burned. At least ten of those killed were shot by police or National Guard forces.

The economic and social effects of riots can be as complex as their origins and harm to individuals are. The term had entered the English language in the U.S. by the 1890s. Early use of the term referred to riots that were often a mob action by members of a majority racial group against people of other perceived races. The rioting mob targets people and properties of a specific religion, or those believed to belong to that religion. It is often done to express a grievance, force change or attempt escape. In the 1977 Egyptian Bread Riots, hundreds of thousands of people rioted after food subsidies stopped and prices rose. Over 300,000 vehicles were destroyed and over 2,800 suspected rioters were arrested and over 300,800 buildings were burned. By the end of the 2005 civil unrest in France, over 10,000 people were arrested, and over 800,000 buildings were destroyed. Over 2,000,000 cars were burned and over 1 billion dollars worth of property damage was estimated at over USD 1 billion. Such riots may also occur as a. result of oppression of peaceful demonstration or after sporting events.