IN THE background, a series of warehouses with a multitude walking away in disorderly lines, many with shopping trolleys carrying goods. Debris litters the streets. In the distance, the smoke drifts off torched buildings and burned goods.
A hooded and masked man points at his trolley of goods and explains why he loots. “I have nothing, and even after this, I’ll still have nothing, but at least, for now, I’ll have something,” he says.
He explains his loot: “Nappies, which I can’t afford, for my few months’ old baby, and the flat-screen TV for my wife and me, just to make the continuing lockdowns bearable.”
As one of the unending series of broadcast and print images, this brief news interview captures the actual events and hints at the range of…
