It was weird to watch. Lots of politicians supported the riots and threatened us with riots if we disagreed. Places like Spokane and Cour D'Alene showed up with guns at any fight. Yakima told the 'protesters' directly there were snipers. These parts of the state had no damage but were mocked on TV and called evil by every news site.

Then you saw how the riot organizers were getting paid by some nebulous group. Nothing was grass roots, it was only meant to look that way. Any investigation into that would be insane, because the organizers would act with force.