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Re:Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of eme... by paulddraper on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @03:45PM (#10740340)
Multiple buildings (including two schools) and hundreds of cars were burned, at least one elderly man was killed.

IDK of anything comparable in the US in this century.

It's hyperbole only in that the area affected was small compared to the rest of Sweden, in the same way that one street is small compared to the rest of the US.

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Re:Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of eme... by flubert on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @05:34PM (#10740996)
>IDK of anything comparable in the US in this century.

https://www.google.com/#q=cars+burned+baltimore+riots

https://www.google.com/#q=damage+from+ferguson+riots

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Re:Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of eme... by paulddraper on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @07:09PM (#10741462)
Yep. I stand corrected. Those are similar and on the same scale (i.e. larger than I had remembered). Like I said, there are worst sights than an old house.
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