It is looting and mob mentality.
Mattie and others: I don't fundamentally disagree about what this has become, but to me this comes across as akin to saying that the riots in Los Angeles after the Rodney King verdict were merely looting and mob mentality. Can we not agree that there is a context which provides the kindling that eventually leads to the flames of looting mobs? Ten year olds (hopefully) are not concerned about acquiring jobs, but they are old enough to feel angry about structural inequality, even if they lack the experience, scope or vocabulary to understand it as such. I think it's perfectly okay to condemn this sort of destruction while still understanding that sometimes people are not going to wait to form protests, but rather just want to break stuff. This is kind of the definition of disenfranchisement (to whatever extent real or imagined). Again, this is not at all a defense of such actions--I just think that the aura of "mob" and "looting" (even if accurately used here) leads us down an even darker road.