Missing the point. Riots and protests are individually unhelpful, but widespread and persistent civil instability provide exciting opportunities for insurgents and insurgent politicians, and plunges surveillance states into situations where they have the most difficulty operating
It needs to be reiterated that mob violence is not going to solve the situation in the United Kingdom. London's latest moves have been towards imposing a surveillance system without a parallel outside of Xinjiang & increasing the share of migrants in the security forces.