There's a related phenomenon called "elite panic", where the media focuses/outright manufactures fear about poor people looting, rioting etc whenever there's a

There's a related phenomenon called "elite panic", where the media focuses/outright manufactures fear about poor people looting, rioting etc whenever there's a natural disaster, and this leads to idiocy like police standing around guarding undamaged rich people's houses instead of even trying to save the actual victims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_panic