Welfare Recipients Threaten To Riot Over EBT Outage Welfare recipients living in Los Angeles Skid Row threatened to riot this weekend, after their Electronic Benefit Transfer cards stopped working for a moment. The outage resulted from a routine back up check initiated by Xerox Corporation, the vendor of EBT cards. Although the system started working just shortly after it was restarted, welfare recipients were not ready to forgive the incident. My heart goes out to people who dont have food right now, one welfare recipient told the media of the incident. Another man claims, We had to cancel a picnic today cause we were gonna use EBT cards to buy hamburgers and stuff. While the majority of people were reasonable about the outage, one man threatened that if a resolution was not found, there was gonna be an uproar in the city of L.A.a Rodney King, baby. The man was referencing the Rodney King riots that took over South Central L.A. in 1992, after four LAPD officers were acquitted for the beating of Rodney King. Over 50 people were killed in those riots. What do you think of welfare recipients reaction to the temporary outage? 