When I Look Back

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‘This is an unlawful assembly’ Police Chief Harris declared over the loudspeaker of his patrol car. The words fell out of his mouth and landed on the ground with such disdain for the people he was talking to. ‘You are to disperse; you are ordered to disperse. Go home or go to your church.’

Harris barked this order off to the side of the protest, while some six hundred strong stood in defiance as he spoke, and while close to fifty…