“The riots didn’t happen because of outrage, but because the gathering mobs were told by everyone from CNN right up to their local (left-wing) politicians that angry protests were expected and would be tolerated. That was as good as throwing a match into a spreading pool of gasoline,” Daniel Greenfield wrote via the Sultan Knish blog.

Greenfield outlined the top three ways a race riot is actually put together:

1. Riots are about power, not for the rioters, but for the establishment:

In the aftermath of the murder of a Jewish student by an angry black mob, Al Sharpton said, “We must not reprimand our children for outrage when it is the outrage that was put in them by an oppressive system.”

Today’s instigators follow Sharpton’s same message.

2. The outsiders:

“Before the riot, community organizers, citizen reporters and assorted activists show up to coordinate, spread slogans and justify the coming violence. They want violence far more than the locals do and they taunt police and try to create incidents, but they often avoid personally engaging in violence,” Greenfield wrote.

“In the early twentieth century the group stirring up riots was usually some arm of the Communist Party. Later a variety of leftist groups, like Antifa, many closely entangled with the Democratic Party took over. Most of the damage is done by looters and rioters from other areas looking for an opportunity to burn and steal. Some locals will tag after them, but they are usually responsible for the worst of the violence. Some of the looters are from out of state, others from different neighborhoods.

“Being outsiders they’re unknown to the police and rarely have to worry about being identified afterwards. And they don’t care about burning down someone else’s community.”

The major media, meanwhile, “usually sticks to its narrative of an outraged community that engages in excesses, especially when it can’t tell apart the locals from the outsiders. Local cops can, but no one in the media listens to them. Arrest records often show that most of those charged in the more violent crimes aren’t locals, but the media remains immune to facts that conflict with a favorite narrative,” Greenfield wrote.

3. Opportunism:

“The rioters aren’t outraged, they’re usually bored young men, frustrated and lacking in empathy. Many of them have gang ties or a criminal record stretching back to kindergarten,” Greenfield wrote. “They’re the same people who commit crimes in any other non-outraged context.”

The rest are there “to get some attention while providing them with protective coloration. 9 out of 10 people screaming frenziedly while holding up ‘Black Lives Matter’ signs would eagerly scream and hold up ‘Tiger King 4 President’ or ‘Minneapolis Loves the KKK’ signs if it got them positive attention and a shot at being on television.”

Greenfield continued:

“Everything else you need to know about why riots happen can be read on a thermometer. Weather breaks up a riot faster than appeasement. It’s hard to riot when your teeth are chattering. There’s a reason that riots usually happen in the summer. The same viral video that sets a nation on fire would have been met with shrugs in the winter.”

The answers to the ongoing rioting “can’t be found” in the streets, Greenfield wrote. The problems came from a corrupt political establishment that lights the fuse for its own power and profit.

“The angry rioter is a sacred figure in the progressive pantheon of social justice. But the saint of the looted convenience store is as mythical a figure as the selfless community organizer. The race riot isn’t a bubbling stew of outrage out of which wounded souls emerge to cry out for justice. It’s a complicated criminal conspiracy in which the perpetrators rarely suffer any consequences.”