Brooks Brothers riot
Correction: Of course, the Brooks Brothers riot was in the year 2000, not 2020.
The riot was a gathering of people whipped up by Roger Stone, that perennial election trickster. They came to the counting place where Miami-Dade election officials were looking at questionable ballots while doing a re-count of the George W Bush/Al Gore presidential election. The rioters were adamant that Bush had won and that a recount was unnecessary and wrong.
The riot changed the default condition of the recount. Prior to the riot, it appeared that civil tranquility required counting. After the riot, civil tranquility required doing nothing and letting Bush’s then-lead remain. The election officials stopped counting. The election officials wanted peace. The riot worked.
It was called the Brooks Brothers riot because the people yelling at the lobby of the recount area were middle class professional people, not one’s typical hooligans.
Sorry for the error in my original post and email. People old enough to be boomers know the story. We lived it. For young people it is a little-known bit of history.