 Nudged presents Terror Kid by Benjamin Zephaniah, narrated by Ewan Goddard. For the kids of Broadway Comprehensive School, the kids of Birmingham who try their best, and Tony Ben, R.I.P., who first told me to write this book, Chapter 1, Riot in Progress. R.I.P. stood and stared as the shopping trolley flew through the air and smashed through the sports shop window. The boots and shoulders of the rioters had already weakened the toughened glass, and the force of the trolley caused the whole pain to shatter and collapse. Before the glass had even settled, a sea of people charged into the shop. The rioters danced, they chanted and they celebrated as they left the shop carrying balls, bats, trainers and football shirts, anything they could pick up and carry away. It was a hot, sticky Friday night in Birmingham, but the riots happening there had started five days earlier when a young woman had been shot dead by police in Layton, East London. Young people all over London were angered and started protests and demonstrations. On one of those demonstrations, a police officer pushed another teenage girl to the ground and kicked her while she was down. A bystander filmed it all on his phone and uploaded it to the internet, and then the anger spread. The demonstrations turned to riots, and in a few days the riots had spread west to Bristol and north to Wolverhampton, Salford, Nottingham, Manchester and Rico City, Birmingham. The British people, mainly young people of all races, all faiths and many with no faith, were rioting up and down the country. They had had enough. Rico Federico stood on Dudley Road and watched as shop after shop was smashed rushed and then emptied. A large number of police wearing hard helmets and dressed in heavy black protective clothing gathered at the top of the road carrying shields. The police charged but they were outnumbered by the mob and were soon forced back to watch from their lines. A police car and a bus were set on fire. Fire alarms, car alarms and burglar alarms rang out from near and far, and Rico seemed to be the only one standing still. He turned a full circle to see the destruction all about him. Suddenly, someone put their arm around his shoulders and ran their fingers through his hair. Rico, it's show time. Sample complete. Ready to continue?