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Emily Bazelon is a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the author of Charged and Sticks and Stones, and co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest.

But the sisters are radicalized after being attacked in the 1969 Burntollet Bridge incident, when protesters calling for equal rights on a peaceful march from Belfast to Derry were ambushed by a mob wielding stones, iron bars and sticks spiked with nails.

Pistiwan Jameel, of Birmingham, referred to migrants as "pigeons" and "sticks", and used his contacts with gangs in France to arrange journeys for clients, while collecting payments in the UK.

When the rally reached Cathedral Square, mounted police were sent into the crowd who retaliated with rocks, sticks and bottles.

My dad used to make fun of me for being someone who sticks to rules — almost to a fault.