> Who would’ve guessed phones and social media would cause mass protests because bystanders could record and distribute videos of the police?

That would have been quite far down on my list of "major (unexpected) consequences of phones and social media"...

Yep, it’s literally just a slightly higher tech version of (for example) the 1992 Los Angeles riots over Rodney King but with phones and Facebook instead of handheld camcorders and television.