Acts of violence

It was just as predicted. There wasn’t just indignation during the protests against corruption in the flood-control project dealings the other day; there was violence and vandalism. Well, at least in the Mendiola and Recto areas in Manila, anyway.

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You have probably seen footage of it; masked youths dressed in black shirts, not really chanting for an end to corruption and more accountability from the government, and more bent on causing any form of destruction and violence.

One video shows them targeting the lobby of a hotel, as if the hotel had anything to do with the issue or offended them somehow. They broke the glass façade of the hotel, threw items in, then set those items on fire.

Then as if an afterthought, they trashed the motorcycles lined outside the hotel.