CULTURAL APPROPRIATION:

Travon Walton, a 25-year-old student from Long Beach, arrived in the Fairfax area in the afternoon to join the protests.

He said he saw many non-black protesters inciting the police from up close and worried that the black community would be blamed. “All the white people are in the front,” he said. “We’re going to be the ones that get the backlash.”

People egging these riots on — or just plain inciting them — aren’t doing it because they have the black community’s best interests at heart. (Original paywalled L.A. Times version here.)