MSU Student paper - Our Riot was not as bad as France's Riot.

So that must mean the East Lansing mini-riot was excusable, as it had not spread to multiple cities. In the Article Paris burning: April 2-3 disturbances nothing like massive riots in France, E.L. crowd wouldn't have grown close, the editorial opines that because the samll East lansing riot was nothing like the riots currently engulfing France, it was a no-big-deal spontaneous outburst where

those who participate aren't filled with anarchy but just want to rattle cages. We can attribute their actions to one too many drinks or a wish to celebrate.

So that apparently excuses rioting in the streets.

The writer than compares this "rattle cages" exuberance to the Paris riots:

Rioters in France, however, are full of tension and unrest.

The French working class, fed up with unemployment, racial tension and other societal issues, finally exploded.

The MSU student paper, in its student marxist-chic mode, as most University Student papers are wont to do, injects some leftist-speak into the rationale for the riots -- erroneously of course. The Statenews reports that

The French working class, fed up with unemployment, racial tension and other societal issues, finally exploded.

glossing over the fact that the rioters are Muslim and in between merily burning cars belonging to non-Muslims are shouting Allah Akbar, not singing the Internationale.