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How do peaceful protests turn violent?
The vast majority of crowds are peaceful - but occasionally they can turn violent. Prof John Drury explains the four conditions that can lead peaceful crowds to become violent, and how a peaceful protest in 1990 escalated into the worst riots London had seen in a century.
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