
Violence Erupts
Clip: Season 1 Episode 5 | 3m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
As the PM tries to move the barricades, citizen fight back.
As the military comes in to move the barricades and get the transformer to Northumberland, extremists infiltrate the protests as chaos and violence ensue.
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Violence Erupts
Clip: Season 1 Episode 5 | 3m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
As the military comes in to move the barricades and get the transformer to Northumberland, extremists infiltrate the protests as chaos and violence ensue.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Sutherland] Lives are already being lost.
Take that barricade down.
(crowd screaming) (engines roaring) (crowd screaming) (engines roaring) (crowd screaming) (engines roaring) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (metal crashing) (crowd screaming) (engine roaring) (soldiers clamoring) - [Voice On Radio] Charlie, Charlie, 1, advance to the blockade.
(soldiers shouting) (soldiers shouting) (soldiers shouting) (footsteps pounding) (helicopter whirring) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (intense music) (crowd clamoring) (intense music) (crowd clamoring) (intense music) (intense music) (soldiers shouting) (batons thumping) (crowd screaming) (batons thumping) (crowd screaming) (truck creaking) (truck smashing) (machines crashing) (machines crashing) (crowd clamoring) (intense music) - [Voice On Television] The first barricade is down... (voice on television muffled by static) - [Pickering] The first barricade is cleared.
But there are more protestors approaching.
(crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (intense music) (intense music) (bottle crashing) (fire roaring) (crowd roaring) (crowd roaring) (soldier screaming) (fire extinguisher extinguishing) (voice on television clamoring) - [Pickering] We need to take control of the situation.
(Sutherland sighing) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (objects smashing) (crowd screaming) (objects smashing) (crowd screaming) (objects smashing) (crowd screaming) (objects smashing) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (body smashing against car) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) - [Pinkerton] We're pushing their lines back well.
(intense music) (intense music) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (bomb exploding) (crowd screaming) (crowd screaming) (bomb exploding) (voice on television clamoring) - What the hell was that?
- [Pickering] Phosphorus grenade.
These are military grade weapons.
Do I have authorization to return fire?
- [Glover-Morgan] They should retreat.
- [Pickering] If they have grenades, they may have guns.
(voice on television clamoring) - [Glover-Morgan] Robert, listen to me, we can take stock.
- [Pickering] Do I have authorization?
- Anna, tell him.
- They're throwing grenades at British soldiers.
This isn't a protest, Robert, it's an armed attack.
- [Glover-Morgan] It's too risky.
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With the crisis worsening, the Prime Minister is forced to consider more extreme measures. (30s)
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