The police couldn’t do nothing. The police was there in my face just shouting and screaming. And I basically told them: ‘This is some next-level revolution coming.’“Hail to the Thief,” Harper’s Magazine (March 2012)— From interviews with participants in riots that took place in England last August, conducted for Reading the Riots, a study by the London School of Economics and the Guardian.
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