Riots protesting racial issues = thugs...people burning a few cop cars cause their hockey team wins = good old fun.

Katrina was imho where it all hit a head:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones/black-people-loot-food-wh_b_6614.html

or the most fucked up story during that time. Look at these cops protect us from 'looters' as they claimed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/04/new-orleans-police-officers-katrina

The problem is when shit hits the fan in general you're going to have a breakdown in criminal society with people taking advantage. As if having a new Samsung OLED tv makes up for their house being flooded? As if its not covered by insurance? As if 9 outta ten times the whole reason why the riots popped in the first place is because the state failed them (by being so egregious that they are rioting for being so unprepared for acts of nature).

My fav was when during the Baltimore riots CNN anchors crying for a burning CVS, lol.

The good old boys wouldn't be all amped up to protect against looters if there wasn't an implied racial connotation, even if its on the subconscious level.