hackney...

[lcg]

i truly give in...the great unwashed are now pelting riot police with bins/bricks/trolleys etc after a 'stop and search' took place in hackney. are they attempting to suggest the police should leave them alone to get up to lord knows what? you can see the stupid buggers gawping in the the middle of the trouble, others smashing the street up and actively provoking the police for a response. i say again - they should get the rubber bullets back out and perhaps the scrotes would think twice about acting like a hooligan/thug/gangster. i would be ashamed and horrified if that was my child behaving like that and would do lords knows what to him as a result. why do parents let their children grow up believing that it is acceptable to behave in this way? what are your thoughts on the events that are unfolding? is currently live on bbc news x

[Zeuhl]

<<Lewisham is now in the frame, so who is next? >>

Google 'Afro-Caribbean restaurants & Convenience Stores then plot them on a map.

That should provide a reasonable prospect list.

[sandyRoe]

If that's the case, is nowhere safe?^^^

[emmie]

I know Lewisham, nice shopping area.

[Ric.ror]

Why aren't they at work anyway?

[Wrongn3mber]

This situation is split into two different groups group 1 feel that their Deprived backgrounds+Disenfranchised youths+years of police harrassment+no jobs/money/future+ being shortchanged by the weather every summer+Them angry and wanting some sort of payback.

Group 2 are just excitement hunting troublemaking criminals out just for violence, action and thieving.

[Zeuhl]

Good question ric.

And why, on Saturday , were they not at their weekend homes in the country?

[jno]

apparently there was an attempt to organise rioting in Oxford St but the police seem to have stopped that one. This is however hardly a hotbed of Afro-Carribean restaurants

[Ric.ror]

They probably went to a barbecue at the weekend

[sandyRoe]

But there are some nice shops there. ^^^

[Wrongn3mber]

The rioting is happening in mainly black areas but the rioters themselves are black white and brown male and female.

[jno]

and the greatest injustice is that first Theresa May and now Boris himself have had to cut short their holidays.

[Wrongn3mber]

Are there enough police on the streets to contain this if it erupts everywhere? What is the likelyhood that the army would become involved and what would be their role? Do we even have enough soldiers here seeing many are overseas?

[Zeuhl]

<<They probably went to a barbecue at the weekend >>

They certainly did that.

Big Mac grilled over burning shag pile - lovely

[emmie]

so some are suggesting that the little toerags are just targeting the black and asian areas, destroying the local businesses, homes, and that the perpetrators are mostly white, is that correct?

[redcrx]

its an excuse by many to have a bit of a fight, throw stuff and get their xmas shopping in early. Disgusting behaviour by many who probably dont even know what started the protests
send the army in, shut down twitter and FB for 48 hours and set curfews across London.

[Ric.ror]

Out of intrest anyone been caught up in a riot?
Cause I have

[jno]

Wrongn3mber, the government wants to cut police numbers. Nothing would suit the police better than events which showed the need for more policemen, not fewer. I suspect all this is being orchestrated by the shadowy Met Mob.

[emmie]

ric.cor yes, and the IRA bombings in the area i was working.

[Zeuhl]

Could be some good overtime opportunities in all this.

It's an ill-wind etc etc