Don't Be Stereotypical

The Audio is not the best, but this clip highlights why the filters of the media often do not correspond to reality. 

Here is an interesting perspective from the far left in Britain. They are comparing this riot with another riot in the 80's:

Back then the police acted as the frontline of a state at war with sections of its own population, determined to hold the line at all costs in an all-out battle for control. By contrast, this week the police have more often looked as if they don’t even know where the line might be and are fearful of crossing it. They have allowed people to run riot. Even when they confronted looters, the abiding images were of officers waving their sticks around in the air like boys trying to appear tough without risking a real confrontation. As the man said, they looked ‘impotent’

The whole article is an interesting read.