It is impossible to know for sure what the rioters
wanted. It is very likely that there were many different motivations because there were
so many different rioters. Here are the two major schools of thought as to what the
rioters wanted or hoped to achieve.
One school of thought
says that the riots were a way of lashing out against an oppressive and uncaring
society. This school of thought argues that the rioters were expressing their
frustration with a society that keeps them down and does not help them to have better
chances in life.
A second school of thought is much more
critical of the rioters. It argues that they were motivated mainly by greed and a
desire to do mindless violence. In this view, the rioters were criminals, or at best
people with shaky moral values who got swept up in a mob mentality. They were using the
police killing and the protests simply as a cover for their desire to either commit
violent acts or to get valuable goods without paying.
It is
probable that some rioters fell into each of these categories and some fell into others
or into both. There is no way to know for sure.
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