The dirty secret is that those riots are manufactured. It's just how the cathedral does buisness.

Hand out money to people with nothing. Now you own them. They need you to live.

Tell them they aren't dependant on you. It's that those other people are keeping them down.

Watch your political enemies cower in fear, and grovel for it to end.

Placate the mob by implementing whatever policy you handed out on the signs. Probably something that will make the mob easier to unleash next time.

Repeat