Riots—Coming to a City Near You (Source thetrumpet.com) The community held a vigil for Brown Sunday afternoon, attracting large numbers of people. Hours later, the looting started. With darkness descending, a QuikTrip convenience store was looted and set ablaze. Rioting. Tear gas. Looting. Batons. Stealing. Squad cars. Fire. This was the scene that marred the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, Sunday night, after a vigil for Michael Brown, an unarmed black youth who was shot and killed by a police officer Saturday afternoon. Michael Brown and Dorian Johnson were reportedly on their way home, walking down the middle of Canfield Drive, when a police officer ordered them to walk on the sidewalk. Ferguson is a predominantly black community with a predominantly white police force. Johnson, Brown’s friend, claims the officer was white. Many of America’s inner cities are boiling over with racial tension. Hooligans and criminals are quick to exploit the chaos. The mayor of Ferguson noted that “a lot of the people [rioting] aren’t even from our town; but they came in and stole from our businesses and left our town in ruins.”