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I guess if it had been America the cops would have gone in guns blazing (quite literally probably). It's not so easy to control that kind of disorder when it's popping up randomly in lots of different places.

Also, the riots never affected anywhere a tourist might venture.

No, American police probably wouldn't have twiddled their thumbs while violent hooligans torched the capital city and assaulted innocent bystanders for days on end.