Significant investments in public transportation infrastructure will ultimately prove to be the rare policy that is both economically and socially justifiable.
The fact that this defence is used so often, and is picked up so readily by the press, suggests that we are resistant to holding men responsible for the violence they commit, and so their victims shoulder the blame instead.
While the reports rightly condemn violent demonstrations, they ignore its link to police brutality and a President who has declared a State of War on his own people.