Police arrest a man as they disperse a protest on Aug. 20, for Michael Brown, who was killed by police Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Mo.(Photo: Charlie Riedel, AP)FERGUSON, Mo. When protesters burned down a convenience Authentic Kiko Alonso Jersey store near where a police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, many condemned it. But experts say the ensuing images on national television could become as much of a catalyst for social change as peaceful protests. history that's caught the national spotlight, along with the 1965 Watts Riots in Los Angeles, Calif., the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1992 acquittal of police officers on trial for beating Rodney King.

"It may be a challenge to see these primarily young males and females rioting and looting as part of protest, but it is," said Priscilla Dowden Kiko Alonso Jersey White, a history professor at the University of Missouri St. Louis.

"You are talking about people who are living at or below the poverty line. You are talking about people who are the products of failing schools, and so I look at the looting as part of survival."

Brown, an unarmed African American teenager, was fatally shot Aug. 9 after a white Ferguson police officer, Darren Wilson, stopped him for walking in the middle of a local street. In the days that followed, police using military grade weapons, assault vehicles and tear gas repeatedly clashed with crowds of angry citizens in this St. Louis suburb.

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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and Hillary Clinton both commented that the town looked like a "war zone" during the civil unrest.

But Ferguson's looting created conversations that likely would not have happened if only prayer vigils and other "normal" responses had happened, Dowden White said.

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"The looters, the robbers, the chanters, the nonviolent protests, the sign making . . . all of it has value because it wouldn't be international if it wasn't for the looters," said Amari Sneferu, 54, of St. Louis. "There was a guy who came out of a store with one hubcap rim. One. He can't drive or put that on his car. Authentic Evan Mathis Jersey But he just wanted to take something. He just wanted to do something. That was his expression of outrage because a murderer is getting away with it."

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"They (protesters) could see it was a war against them and they were rebelling against that Jordan Matthews Jersey war," said Sneferu, who is the manager general of the Universal African Peoples Organization and participated in the protests.

He added that he was proud of young people for taking matters into their own hands and not conforming to past nonviolent tactics.