News Tottenham riots

[Embattle]

It sounds more like another poor excuse to be what they are....scum

 

[rynnor]

Its the summer holidays and kids are bored and rioting and looting sound exciting.

Somebody said earlier about the race card but most of the kids in enfield last night were white - its just a social networking fad.

Edit - the bigger suprise is how truly awful the police tactics have been - is it because most of the experienced ones are on holiday or what?

 

[Mabs]

nope, theyre filling in paperwork, thereby streamlining the police force and making it more accountable to pen pushers and bureaucrats

 

[Sparx]

There seems to be a media blackout or something. Wood Green hasnt really been mentioned at all and the whole of High Road has been done it yesterday, so many places boarded up

And not just Wood Green

 

[Jiggs]

There seems to be a media blackout or something. Wood Green hasnt really been mentioned at all and the whole of High Road has been done it yesterday, so many places boarded up

And not just Wood Green

Not so much a blackout, I think the TV crews got beaten up! The BBC certainly high tailed it out of there.

 

[megadave]

Yeah my mate said on the first night they were threatening/attacking/robbing the media and fucking up their coverage vans so they've all stayed well away since then, hence only getting shit footage from behind police lines.

 

[milou]

At least a new dance craze has evolved:

Perhaps they can drop by Southampton as there's a ton of shit in John Lewis I'd like but can't really justify purchasing, and I want to make a political statement about it.

 

[Lamp]

Wonder if it will kick off @ the Olympics

 

[Ctuchik]

Gas them, problem solved.

 

[Tom]

Send in the mounted police, riot police with batons, and teargas.

Bad headlines? Yes. Scrotes seriously injured and running away? Yes. Law-abiding folk and businesses saved? Definitely.

 

[milou]

spent most of last night trapped in Brixton... - SkyscraperCity

 

[soze]

I am sure the police would love to steam in but they cant afford too. Looting Scumbag gets a broken arm and all of a sudden the police are on trial for brutality. We judge the police far to harshly and it will bite us in the arse in situations like this. Unless the Home Secretary comes out and says there will be no comebacks you average cop is going to be too scared, after the G8 thing with that officer maybe serving time now.

 

[megadave]

Send in the mounted police, riot police with batons, and teargas.

Bad headlines? Yes. Scrotes seriously injured and running away? Yes. Law-abiding folk and businesses saved? Definitely.

the riot police and mounted police have been out since saturday

 

[Urgluf]

spent most of last night trapped in Brixton... - SkyscraperCity

interesting read. thx for the pics!

 

[megadave]

this all kicked off because of police brutality, them getting more violent won't exactly help will it?

 

[Ch3tan]

this all kicked off because of police brutality, them getting more violent won't exactly help will it?

Bollocks it did, the original protest was about press fuelled anger, this is nothing but looting idiots.

We don't know what police brutality is, maybe it's time we found out.

 

[megadave]

i've seen police brutality every single time i've been to a protest and kettling has been implemented tbh

also during these riots every time a policeman or rioter falls during a charge, the other side absolutely batters the fuck out of the sorry person on the floor. The police have armour and battons though so inevitably come out better

 

[Ch3tan]

Then people should not fight the Police; simple. As for protests turning sour, again it's anarchy groups in the main to blame. There isn't much that can be done in a riot situation in terms of the police being nice, people are going to get hurt.

 

[megadave]

Either way the police have dealt with this pretty terribly.

 

[Embattle]

this all kicked off because of police brutality, them getting more violent won't exactly help will it?

Utter bollocks, as per normal there isn't a single excuse that I've heard today to in any way justify this behavior other than those people involved being scum.

Some more detailed pictures:

Mob rule as looters swoop on shops like plague of locusts | The Sun |News
Tottenham riot thugs use twitter | The Sun |News

A lot of the major retailers are struggling to stay in business at the moment let alone the small independent retailers.

 

[TdC]

i've seen police brutality every single time i've been to a protest

no offence dude, but I sincerely hope that you will never see *actual* police brutality in your life.

Then people should not fight the Police; simple. As for protests turning sour, again it's anarchy groups in the main to blame. There isn't much that can be done in a riot situation in terms of the police being nice, people are going to get hurt.

I'm certain that the brave man with the covered face lobbing a brick (and then scarpering so others can take the brunt of a police charge) doesn't agree with you.

 

[Mabs]

nope
the scummy wankers should behave themselves. frankly i really dont care if they all get killed when a building falls on them.

Back track to FIRST point - they are rioting.. i dont give a shit what happens to them, they made the first bad move, they can sit on it and swivel
its disgusting

 

[Embattle]

Either way the police have dealt with this pretty terribly.

It certainly isn't a shinning example of police efficiency that is for sure.

 

[Mabs]

oh one other thing, having read this thread, i can think of quite a few people who posted in it i would be entirely unsuprised to see on CCTV with a "free" telly

 

[ileks]

It's been kicking off outside the Hackney empire which is just around the corner from me.

We need the police to stop fucking about and start cracking some skulls now. I don't give a fuck how young these people are.

And all this bullshit on the news about how this is a wider issue can fuck right off. It's a load of black kids fucking about in the summer holidays because they are bored and know they can get away with it.

 

[megadave]

no offence dude, but I sincerely hope that you will never see *actual* police brutality in your life.

What do you count as police brutality? I've seen a girl of 20 get smacked in the head with a baton to the point where she had to have several stitches, this happened because she had the gall to complain to the riot police after she'd been kettled in for 6 hours so tightly she couldn't breathe

 

[Mabs]

What do you count as police brutality? I've seen a girl of 20 get smacked in the head with a baton to the point where she had to have several stitches, this happened because she had the gall to complain to the riot police after she'd been kettled in for 6 hours so tightly she couldn't breathe

shouldnt of been there then

 

[soze]

Unarmed people rioting getting shot and killed by police in Egypt makes our police look like the pussy cats they are.

 

[Ch3tan]

Hackney right now is bad, youths and gangs targeting shops again. Idiots. Police only charging when property is threatened. Fuck that, charge them all arrest as many as possible and hold them under the terrorism laws. About time they used it for something useful.

This is going to fuck a lot of businesses up and push up insurance costs across London. Cunts.

 

[megadave]

shouldnt of been there then

Shouldn't have been protesting against student fees? Why not?

3 days of rioting and the politicians are finally coming back to the country

I'm suppose to be going to a pub in lewisham shortly, Sky News saying it's starting to kick off there. Should be interesting as it contains the biggest police station in Europe, filled with riot gear etc.