RamscoopRaider
Donor
Yes but there is a difference between a 20% price hike out of necessity and a 200% to make more money, especially for those who lost jobs for unrelated reasons.Excessive price gouging? If the supply of food goes way down the price goes way up. There aren't many ways around that. I didn't like the price hikes but didn't go rioting in the streets. The biggest result of all that was many Americans lost quite a bit of weight but most of them (including me) could afford losing a few pounds.
The riot started from a peaceful protest against the latest price hike egged on by media fear mongering and paranoia on the part of the police department resulting in the riots after the second attempt to break up the protests went bad