The Week in Pictures: Riot Preseason Edition

Prediction: If Derek Chauvin is found guilty by the Minneapolis jury, there will be riots anyway, like we sometimes see in a city that wins the Super Bowl or World Series. Dust off Edward Banfield’s chapter on “Rioting Mostly for Fun and Profit” in The Unheavenly City.   Which I may just talk about on our podcast this week. In the meantime. . .

Headlines of the week:

And finally. . .  our own “Lucretia” (and you can see why no one messes with her):

 

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