A Chat With Some Teenage Rioters...

[philosoraptor42]

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- Everyone was just gonna riot. It was just going mad. Like chucking things, chucking bottles.
- Breaking into stuff. Breaking into shops.
- It was good though.
- It was madness. Mad.
- Yeah, it was good though.

Is it good though?
- Yeah.
- Course it is!

So you're drinking a bottle of Rose wine?
- At half nine in the morning!
- Yeah free alcohol!

Have you been drinking all night?
- Yeah.
- Like, it's the government's fault... I dunno.
- Conservatives!
- Yeah whatever, whoever it is. I dunno.
- It's about showing the police that we can do what we want, yeah.
- Yeah, that's what it's all about, showing the police we can do what we want. And now we have.

Do you reckon it will go on tonight?
- Yeah hopefully.
- Definitely.
- Hopefully.

But these are like local people. Why are you targeting local people? Your own people?
-It's the rich people.

Really?
- It's the rich people. The rich people have got businesses and that's why all of this has happened. Coz of rich people. So we are showing the rich people that we can do what we want.