"rioting mobs are not rational, that they attack the wrong targets or the innocent." This is true, and this alone makes justice incompatible with rioting, neve

"rioting mobs are not rational, that they attack the wrong targets or the innocent." This is true, and this alone makes justice incompatible with rioting, never mind the arrogance and viciousness of riotors. But even if the rioters did attack the "right" people, it would also not be licit for we would fall into vigilantism which puts the self-righteous vigilante in a state of war with the state by denying their moral right to govern and to stop him from carrying out acts of vigilantism. So just rioting is a contradiction in terms.