Greece Riots

The recent riots in Greece have rocked the people and Parliament of the small country. The shooting of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos on December 6 by a Greek police officer was the spark that set fire to the powder keg of anger that had been building over the vast amount of corruption the Greek Parliament. The amount of violence that has ensued over the shooting, though, has no excuse. The protesters that are using violent actions to protest the violent action that took place in the shooting make no sense. By using violence in their protests, they are provoking an imminent threat of another death. I agree that they should be upset over this whole situation of the shooting, since they are very rare in Europe unlike here in the U.S., but they should use other peaceful tactics to get their point across and oust the leader. Sometimes, though, as trials in the past have shown (such as in their own ancient history), violence is sometimes needed for a change in a corrput regime.