© Simon Adomat/dpa via APGoods lie on the floor after people broke into a shop on Marienstrasse in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, June 21, 2020. Dozens of violent small groups devastated downtown Stuttgart on Sunday night and injured several police officers, German news agency DPA reported.
The disturbance started as an apparent reaction to a police search for drugs as groups of people partied outside late Saturday and early Sunday in a central park. People then attacked storefronts in a nearby shopping street, according to German public television reports, tearing up paving stones and smashing store windows.
Cellphone video purporting to be of the events circulated widely in social media. Police asked witnesses to upload videos that could provide evidence to assist the investigation.
Stuttgart police said 200 officers responded to the incident and four were injured. They said they were investigating to get a clearer picture of what happened and said they would provide more information later Sunday.
Comment: Attacks on people's livelihoods and societal order seem to be one of the big underlying goals and outcomes of the worldwide coronavirus shutdown. If this chaos continues unabated, we'll likely soon see demands for even greater governmental controls. People may think this will restore the order they knew, but it will not be. What is being sought by the elite is an order with little, if any, humanity left in it.