And now for more on the riots.
As a disclaimer, I have no interest naming and shaming. Whilst effective as a deterrent, it serves only to cause mob justice towards otherwise innocent people, as this post will show. The links contain names, for that I cannot control.
Read the apology of a teen involved in the riot. This particular young man received some ardant vilification following the posting of a photo of him trying to set a police car on fire, and having it posted on the public shaming blog that arised after the riot.
In his apology, he apologises to all those in his community around him. His father is a doctor in the town that they live in, and accordingly he has suffered from some of the backlash that this has caused. My sympathy lies totally with his parents. I am sure that they never taught there son to behave in such a way, but because of his actions, his family's reputation has been brutally tarnished. His father's rating on an internet website allowing you to review your physician has dropped dramatically, although it appears that site will adjust the reviews accordingly.
His family will live in the spectre of their sons behaviour for a long time. He had to close his practice for a few days to stem the bombardment of phone calls that the vigilante justice squad was making. Don't get me wrong, this young man made a grave error and should be punished soundly, but his parents are now the unfortunate victims of his maligned behaviour.
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