In spite of his vulgar definition in the dictionary, the use of this word (vandals) is quite not appropriate in this case. After all, the own television news insisted on showing pictures in that could see that the rioters were predominantly brunet, black or brown. Already the true "vandals" were nomadic Germanic tribes (white people of blue eyes) that wandered for Europe, entering and leaving the Roman Empire, always in conflict with the imperial legions that they defended the cities that the vandals invaded and they plundered. It is unquestionable that the vandals participated in the draft to Rome.

The terminological confusions concerning these people are big and the contradictory registrations. It is known that the vandals were called of Alamanos and Ávaros. The Goth ones and Visigoths were allied of the vandals, being right that marriages happened among members of these way tribes to cement political alliances. Already Christianized, the vandals became known as Aryans. In the Medium Age, centuries later, many of Saxon that invaded Britain were very probably also descending of the vandals.

However, I didn't see the television news call the English policemen of "vandals". This would be, actually, a designation historically much more appropriate.