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There Isn't a Riot Going On

Charles Oliver | 8.30.2011 6:00 AM


A British court has sentenced Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan to four years in prison for organizing riots that never happened. The two set up a Facebook page for "Warrington Riots" and also posted "massive Norwich looting'" as a Facebook event. Both events listed a time and date. But no looting or rioting occurred, and a lawyer for one of the men describes the pages as a joke.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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