France Protests: Why the Pink Panther Joined the French Uprisings

As horrific as the images of looting and arson in Paris over the weekend were, I was most unnerved by the video footage from Reuters of a man and woman calmly having evening drinks at an outdoor table of a cafe not far from the Arc de Triomphe. A fire burns in the near distance, dramatically reflected in the window of the establishment, where a server in white attends to at least one customer inside.