England riots

the sad thing is, if the police start retaliating, people will become even more outraged.

I don't know, theres a point where it becomes ok to retaliate with force, and I think this is way past that point. When they can do this

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to our police officers who don't seem to have any proper weapons to defend themselves with when they selflessly go out to try and protect innocents and their property from these thugs, I stop caring about them and just want them dealt with. If they called in the army to deal with them, I'd probably support the move.

weird though, we had small riots after the Steelers won the super bowl here in Pittsburgh and there were mounted police, and even smoke canisters everywhere, but you dont seem to see that here...

There have been mounted police, though theres no signs of water cannons, tear gas, or anything other than batons.