What’s stoking the riots is 40M people with no job responsibilities getting $1k a week to go set things on fire. Knowing if they get arrested Hollywood will bail them out and they won’t miss work anyways. The media wants to portray it as some mass uprising when it’s mostly jobless mopes.
All this is a consequence of fear. Fear perpetuated by media. Govt and private sector also participated in this. But the media is the gasoline.