UK Riots

[Clayden69]

Anybody live in the affected areas? It's kicking off in Toxteth, Liverpool now. Following London riots over the weekend and the riots in Wolverhampton, Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham earlier today/tonight.

 

 

16,000 coppers on the streets of London has kept them off streets of London tonight. Did people see the pics of the Sony distribution Centre in North London? Completely gutted in a fire after the dickheads (sorry for the language but thats the least they are) got away with everything they could carry. Millions of pounds in damage

 

 

Great stories of groups of 50-100 people getting together and protecting communities.

 

Comments...

[Lilbaz]

Live in Camden (London), we had a bit of trouble on Monday night. Few shops ransacked and windows smashed. My mate got home from night shift and found out his son had a new phone and pair of jeans, kid rightfully got a kicking.

Dead last night, the whole high street boarded up the shops and were all shut by 17:00, absolutely full of old bill (police to our American friends) and paparazzi trying to get a photo. See how it goes tonight.

[Lilbaz]

Three men protecting a mosque were killed when someone ran them over in Birmingham. Police treating it as murder.

[Red2111]

any one know why the riots have started though? in the States all our news sources are saying is how bad they are, but no one is mentioning the cuases that i've heard.

[Lilbaz]

The cause was a guy in Tottenham getting shot by a police officer. The family went to the police station to get answers but were given little information because an independent commission were still investigating. Hangers on to the family went onto facebook and Twitter and called other people in North London to turn up. Eventually the family went home but by now there were hundreds of people (mainly young and looking for trouble), things started getting heated when they got bored, then things got broke and a shop got robbed and soon it was a full scale riot.

Day 2, the members of the first riot then went back to their own areas (notably Ealing, Hackney) and on the second day (since they got away with it the first) decided to do it again in their own areas.

Day 3, a lot of what we'd call chav's (british equivalent of trailor trash) watching the previous evenings events with little repercussions, decided they'd join in the fun. This lead to riots and looting all over London.

Day 4, the rest of the country thought it would be fun to join in. Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and lots of other small towns all over Britain jumped in.

By now though the PM and Mayor were back from their hols and decided to do something. Getting 16000 police on the streets of London and giving them permission to kick f out of any rioters. This meant that London was quite quiet.

 

We're now waiting to see what happens tonight. Will Scotland join in? (it's quite hard to tell if they have already or if it's just a normal week night for them)will the chav's be back out in London? I'll tell you tomorrow.