In the wake of King's assassination in 1968 riots broke out in more than one hundred cities across the United States as people grieved; James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th 1968, when King had come to Memphis in support of a labor strike.
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No government has any rights not granted to it by the governed. It may have the power but it would be pretty darn foolish for the people to grant it that power. The people on the other hand have the right to decide on the termination of an undesirable government and or its officials. A sane modern liberal government will have an established procedure for doing this in an orderly, non violent fashion.
The British attempted to impact the economy of the colonies by closing the ports and harbors to American ships through the Boston Port Act passed by The Great Britain Parliament in 1774. It was designed to punish Boston residents for the Boston Tea Party having destroyed the tea and to make them pay the East India Company for the losses and pay the king for lost taxes.