3 Simple Steps To Tramp Down Spreading Riots

WASHINGTON - June 11, 2025 - PRLog -- Despite curfews, a massive police presence, national guard troops, and endless exhortations to keep them peaceful, many immigration-related protests have nevertheless turned into riots with wanton destruction, looting vandalism, arson, graffiti and injuries to officers and civilians apparently beyond the control of authorities.  The riots have already spread to cities other than Los Angeles, and far more are promised this weekend as part of planned national "No Kings" protests.

Since the conventional means employed so far have obviously not been successful, its probably necessary to add new and different tactics if peace is to be keep, and injuries and damage are to be reduced, suggests public interest law professor John Banzhaf, whose proposals in an international report to reduce the risks posed by school shootings are being adopted.  He suggests three simple measures which can be taken before the weekend to supplement other efforts to keep the peace and tramp down riots.

FIRST, there should be a formal announcement that any person who touches, blocks, or otherwise interferes with a U.S. official performing immigration functions or keeping the peace will be arrested and charged with a federal crime which will be vigorously prosecuted by a U.S. attorney. . . .

SECOND, an appropriate federal official such as Attorney General Pam Bondi should immediately and forcefully remind those organizations now being investigated for helping to ferment the LA riots, by providing logistical support and financial resources to individuals engaged in these disruptive actions. that, as Senator Josh Hawley pointed out, it "is aiding and abetting criminal conduct," and therefore grounds for the revocation of their tax exemption. . . .

THIRD, those who have been harmed, injured, or otherwise adversely affected by the riots - including shop owners and other businesses, innocent civilians injured, or even people stuck on a highway by those illegally blocking it - should sue those rioters who can be identified (from arrest records, facial recognition, or even doxxing) for damages under a variety of well established torts (civil actions), says Banzhaf, who has successfully encouraged using such civil actions in a variety of situations involving criminal protest activities. . . .

Any individual or business which was harmed by a riot can sue any identified rioter, and probably bring a class action law suit for millions of dollars, says Banzhaf, who has been called a "King of Class Action Law Suits," as well as "a Driving Force Behind the Lawsuits That Have Cost Tobacco Companies Billions of Dollars," and "The Law Professor Who Masterminded Litigation Against the Tobacco Industry."

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