“We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.” IfsTwoImportantSocialHoursCommonWorryMediaMajorsPoliceTrainSocial MediaCommon SenseStationsBusClosingRiotTrain Stations Author:Louise Mensch
“Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.” StatesSeemsInterestingObjectsOughtGayPolicePropertyActivismPrivacyApprovalBoresCraveViolationRiotSealsPrivate PropertyPensionColossal Author:Ilana Mercer
“I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.” BelieveI CanGirlImaginePoliceRussiaRiot Author:Vladimir Putin
“There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had the Trafalgar Square riots that the Poll Tax went out in Britain. When people take to the streets and fight the police, it's the one thing the government can't control. You can march round in circles for the rest of your life and they can ignore it, but once you start damaging property and fighting with the police, they can't. Even though they tar you with a brush and say you're a set of bastards, they have to actually tone down what they are doing.” PeopleGovernmentFightingViolenceOne ThingStreetsTaxesPolicePropertyRoundsCirclesToneBritainMarchSquaresBrushesPollsRest Of Your LifeRiot Author:Alice Nutter
“I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.” StillsHoursSleepCitiesFireStreetsStageFitMurderTheaterPoliceClockRanStationsHallsJailBuriedEchoesBellyRiotTickSlumsBanquetsCourtroomBookshopsSaloonsMadhousesTockTick Tock Author:Ben Hecht
“You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.” TryingYearsFallBlackEffortRacePeriodsSummerShotsRelationPoliceChiefsRebellionProgressiveFalling ApartVariationRace RelationsRiotMayorsDetroitFergusonUnraveling Author:David Maraniss
“Soccer matches in Europe have riot police. Metal is just people sloshing around drunk and sloppy and having fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. It is a great outlet for aggression.” PeopleFunEuropePoliceDrunkSoccerHaving FunMetalsAggressionOutletsRiotSloppy Author:Chris Reifert
“Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch. It's also an exaggeration when placed across from the race riots. Because again you have the police department and you have Michael Jackson.” PoliceImpulseExplorationRiotExaggeration Author:Kelley Walker
“There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.” FightingDemocracyVotePoliceRelyGoing AwayDictatorRiot Author:Garry Kasparov
“Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.” PeopleWantNeedsFeelsHas BeensLeftForgetMouthsPoliceStomachWowOxygenRiotGiddy Book:Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist Source: Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
“If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.” IfsHateGivenHurtCrimeSpeechLettersPoliceUniversityCommitOfficialsMassiveSpeakersRiotHate SpeechAccusingCancellation Author:Ann Coulter
“They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.” UsedHouseBeatsPoliceStationsIntoleranceRiotHarlem Author:Langston Hughes
“George Floyd’s spirit televised the criminal behaviors of the police to the world.” WorldSpiritMurderPoliceRiotCriminalBehaviorsGeorgeFloydTelevised Author:Steven Magee