It began with a protest against the police shooting of a young, black man who was a suspected drug dealer and ended with rioting in the streets. Police backed off while youths smashed store windows. Among the root causes were simmering tensions with law enforcement, lack of socio-economic opportunities for youth, and criminal opportunism. Sound like the riots in England this week? This description could also summarize a much smaller incident that occurred here in Toronto two decades ago. Unlike the present situation across the Atlantic, the only flames Toronto saw on May 4, 1992, were those from a stray Molotov cocktail and from the fiery rhetoric spewing from riot participants and observers.