“It’s been building up for years. All it needed was a spark. We ain’t got no jobs, no money … We heard that other people were getting things for free, so why not us?”
— E. Nan, a young man in a baseball cap surrounded by other youths in Hackney in east London, expresses his frustration to Reuters news agency.
I don’t condone stealing and looting but it’s hard not to sympathize with this man’s statement.
