Juguls_Bhoot Well, even if I assume the kid was homeless (therefore no parentws to take care of him) and lets say he participated into the riot to make some extra money with the full acknowledgement (or at least expectation) that he might end up getting beaten up (or getting killed) then I dont see much reason to question the RIOT POLICE and put sympathy on the kid. The kid did his job of throwing the rocks at the police and the RIOT POLICE did it's job of controling the violent crowd. The RIOT POLICE, by the very name itself is meant to control violent and unruly crowd by using brute force. Violence, haste, dis-order is the indespensible part of their job then why should I expect any RIOT POLICE personnel to discriminate between the adult and kid in the situation of haste, violence and dis-order. I guess the kid jumped into the hot frying pan despite the full knowledge that the fring pan is really hot. The kid got fried in the hot frying pan. RIOT POLICE is the frying pan in this case.