Rioting in London

[Gunrunner]

Yes, it probably a day or so late but just thought I'd bring it to people's attentions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14436499

Started out as a peaceful protest after the police had shot a criminal and they all got pissed about it. Trouble flared and all hell broke loose.

 

[AWdeV]

Man, if you aren't even allowed to shoot criminals who ARE you allowed to shoot?

 

[Radalan]

Oh, I'm glad people protest for the right reasons.

Mr Duggan is a passenger in a minicab and is shot after an apparent exchange of fire. A police officer's radio is later found to have a bullet lodged in it.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) announces it will investigate the incident and later says it believes two shots were fired by police. It also confirms that an illegal firearm was recovered from the scene.

Around 300 people gather outside Tottenham police station after marching from Broadwater Farm estate. They say they want "justice" for Mr Duggan and his family.

What a bunch of ****ing retards.

 

[Yugrath]

I don't feel surprised.

 

[Archonsod]

Stick them in ghetto's, cut back on essential services and you'll get a riot. Same **** we had in the seventies, same **** in the eighties. Co-incidentally, also presided over by the Tories ...

 

[Bulle]

There is actually nothing that says that the man that was shot dead by the police was suspected of anything. It just says that he was a passenger in a cab, and that shots was fired from the cab in an attempted arrest but they don't actually say that it was him that they were after or that he was shooting from the cab.

"Shots were fired and a 29-year-old man, who was a passenger in the cab, died at the scene."

 

[Sound Chaser]

There is actually nothing that says that the man that was shot dead by the police was suspected of anything. It just says that he was a passenger in a cab, and that shots was fired from the cab in an attempted arrest but they don't actually say that it was him that they were after or that he was shooting from the cab.

Yea it seems he had no part in the gunfire.

 

[Gunrunner]

Oh forgot to mention, last night more copy cat "mini riots" broke out in east and south London. They're using social networking sites to gather and cause more mindless destruction. 

 

[Radalan]

Yeah, if you're angry at something or somebody always destroy other people's property that probably has nothing to do with it.

 

[Bulle]

There is actually nothing that says that the man that was shot dead by the police was suspected of anything. It just says that he was a passenger in a cab, and that shots was fired from the cab in an attempted arrest but they don't actually say that it was him that they were after or that he was shooting from the cab.

Yea it seems he had no part in the gunfire.

Indeed. It would be good if the rest of the people in this thread actually read the articles before jumping to conclusions.

 

[Untitled.]

People are morons.

 

[Kobrag]

And everything breaks loose when parliments closed for a holiday. The economy is failing the Tories are persecuting the poor, as always, and when those two forces mixed people are still surprised that rioting will start? Jesus, pliticians are imbeciles.

 

[Kobrag]

People are morons.

Say's the guy wearing an anarchist insignia. 

 

[Untitled.]

If y'all weren't morons we'd have a working anarchistic society by now.

 

[Yugrath]

"Tottenham is a deprived area. Unemployment is very, very high ... they are frustrated," said Uzodinma Wigwe, 49, who was made redundant from his job as a cleaner recently.

"We know we have been victimised by this government, we know we are being neglected by the government," said another middle-aged man who declined to give his name. "How can you make one million youths unemployed and expect us to sit down?"

Tottenham has a large number of ethnic minorities and includes areas with the highest unemployment rates in London. It also has a history of racial tension with local young people, especially blacks, resenting police behaviour including the use of stop and search powers.

 

[Sound Chaser]

If y'all weren't morons we'd have a working anarchistic society by now.

Dude, you can apply that to any system out there.

 

[Untitled.]

I know, we've been through this in the 'Anarchy vs Government' thread. If people had the right mindset, however, and were not born to be outright dicks it'd be a plausible system.
Note that anarchy only means 'no leader', it doesn't exclude laws and rules. It's simply the ultimate form of democracy.

 

[Radalan]

Yeah, the bbc article doesn't exactly make it completely clear that Duggan wasn't actually part of that shootout.

 

[Gunrunner]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/police-kill-man-officer-wounded-192322452.html

Here's an article about the actually shooting. Might make more sense than that BBC article.

 

[Kobrag]

It's extremly funny that the police are being blamed, the government has serverly cut their funding and numbers and they exoect them to handle mass riots, how poetic.