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There was a lot of rioting and violence in small concentrated zones after the police killing of a boy last week. A lot of people online are trying to make it about race/immigration (as usual i guess) and there is a lot of misinformation (old videos, completely fake headlines like military coming in etc.)
What it's really about is young people from the 'cités' feel abandoned by the society/system and have been suffering from a long history of police abuse, this was a tipping point. While there has been a lot of destruction (mostly in their own neighborhoods which makes it fruitless) it's really not a bad as it seems.
related to virality that stemmed submarine saga?
Where is this? Singapore?