1. Mob Violence occurs when a group of people become focused on a violent plan, and 'feed' off one another in their excitement. So no one person can stop the violent events from taking place. Some examples of mob violence would be riots and bully groups. I think this type of violence exists because people feed off each other emotions and in a sense lose their moral compass when they see a group of people all doing the same thing, it seems okay.
2. For my state of Pennsylvania I found a article from March 24, 2010 that took place in Philadelphia. It seems around that time was when flash mobs were starting to get popular except these flash mobs were people just meeting to dance, have pillow fights, or have fun. These were violent flash mobs that would hurt anything or anyone in their path. They would break into fights and hurt each other and onlookers. Before the violent flash mob took place, nothing was happening. The point of these things to break out into a flash mob is to look like you are just going about your daily life and then change into a flash mob as quick as possible. The media points out that these violent flash mobs that are taking place in Philadelphia are black teenage boys who are poor and the incidents are happening in white business class districts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/us/25mobs.html
3. While I was searching for media aspects online I came across a website that listed the author's top 10 movie riots. One was the scene from the original Police Academy in which the rioters were chasing the police officers and also lists another movie, Britannia Hospital which shows police brutality on a woman who tries to hand the police officer a flower.
http://whatculture.com/film/top-10-movie-riots.php
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