Blog #4

1. Mob violence is a form of civil disorder characterized often by disorganized groups lashing out in a sudden and intense rash of violence. Two examples of mob violence are riots and killing parades. To be honest I really don't know why groups like this exist. Living in this society nothing really surprises me anymore. I'm actually having trouble understanding the reasoning for mob violence because it seems as if they are being violent for no reason. There's no valuable reasoning behind the killings that comes from mob violence. 

2. In Michigan, on a Saturday morning 3,000 to 5,000 people was waiting patiently for the doors to open for Section 8 vouchers that were being offered. Unfortunately only 1,000 vouchers were being offered at the time. Once the doors open people was going crazy, stepping and falling all over children and disabled people. There was a lady in a wheelchair who people pushed over just to get a hand of her and pushing children out the way as well. The riot became somewhat out of hand to the point the police had to turn off the lights in the building. Just to try to obtain the crowd but it back fired and everything ended up worse. I believe the children and the disable woman was the victims and the offenders was the adults jockeying for position to be the first ones inside the building.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/12/fighting-and-throwing-chairs-riot-explodes-as-thousands-seek-housing-vouchers-in-mi-town/

3. One big media documentation on a riot was when Martin Luther King was killed in Memphis April 4, 1968. In the United States, African American protest on the streets of DC, Baltimore, and Chicago. It ended with the result of 11 people killed, 48 people injured, and a damage cost over $10,000,000.

Another media riot that took place in Kenya December 1992, which injured thousands and killed between 800-1,500. The riot happens because of the re-election of Kibaki. Everyone felt that the election was rigged and that made people go insane. There was over 600,000 people displaced from their home and over billions in damages. 

http://matadornetwork.com/change/11-of-historys-biggest-riots-and-why-they-happened/