Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

letter to the editor:

Society doesn’t owe rioters anything

I get tired of hearing people make excuses for the people who riot, burn their own neighborhoods, loot and say it’s owed to them. I lived in Watts during the riots and lived by Florence and Normandie, where the Rodney King riots started. People were looting and burning stores, saying it was owed to them because of what happened to King. Lots of people live in poverty, but they don‘t go burning and looting, saying it’s owed to them. They ended up with no market and shops, so it hurt, not helped.

What happened in Baltimore was sad, but it’s not a reason to riot and burn your neighborhood. Rioting does not help anyone. It needs to stop.

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