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

[mightyWBA]

What a load of nonsense some of you spout.
These riots are nothing to do with "Government cuts"..Just a gang of yobs and thieves deciding to expoit a lack of Police manpower.
they aren't poor and desperate people, they're just scum.

Send the Army in..Our Capital is under attack.

[packardbell]

couldn't agree more Icg76....any other country in the world would be using water cannons and tear gas by now! they're nothing but troublemakers and looters with absolutely no grievance at all

[lcg]

i have been caught up in several riots (unfortunately not the one causing any damage, tho). i went to london on the day of the poll tax riot to see a west end show! the highlight of that day was retreating into what looked like a quiet subway only for coppers to get on one end of the train and a load of skinheads on the other (that was a trouser moment, i can tell you!). this rubbish going on at the moment is purely down to mindless yobs who think they are above the law, are entitled (to what, i'm not quite sure) and they don't have to lift a finger to get it (unless it involves a brick through a window). the government should show some balls, deploy the army and shoot blatant troublemakers with rubber bullets (fatal or not) or at the very least those bean bag thingys. even if you take these events back to their root 'cause' the bloke who was shot had a gun, at least tried to shoot one police officer and had some lovely gangsta photos on facebook. a paragon of virtue...i think not x

[webbo3]

Agree with mightyWBA, is it not time to get the army involved, this has nothing to do with someone being shot by the police it is all about wanton damage and violence.



Dave.

[jackthehat]

The Army could never be prevailed upon to take to the streets in instances such as this.........and no-one in power would dare to ask them to do so.

[boxtops]

Most of these "rioters" and burglars look as if they are still in their teens - hmm, something to do in the school holidays? It certainly looks like Rent-a-Mob.

[Astonvanilla]

I just feel sorry for all the law abiding citizens who want to get on with their lives, the rioting is just an excuse for yobs to jump on the bandwagon and loot and cause as much destruction as possible, London is now portrayed as a nasty place to live in.

[sandyRoe]

It must be a terrible place to live in if you're a young black man. Murderous violence, little prospects of work, and police harassment.

[boxtops]

The woman on the TV whose home above the carpet shop in Tottenham was distraught - quite rightly - absolutely nothing to do with her. She said that she and her neighbour were running for their lives and could barely get out for people nicking carpets.

[lcg]

more like rent-a-moob, boxtops! x

[jno]

long hot summer, sandyRoe? In my day we never rioted until it hit at least 90 degrees. Today's youth are so dumb they go out and riot in 70 degrees and rain.

[VHG]

>>>Perhaps they are fighting against a culture that thinks of them as
>>>the great unwashed and thinks its OK to stop and search for no
>>>other reason than their colour.

Stop trying to defend them you stupid woman.

I am watching them on the news now, jumping up and down on the bonnet of cars like apes, smashing windows on cars with bricks, then settinf fire to them.

They are just mindless thugs who have no brain, no education, and think just because they live in the UK we owe them a living.

Give them a warning to clear the streets, and then start to use live bullets.

There is no place for them in this country

[jno]

calm down, VHG. You do not know them. You have no idea whether they have brains, education or anything else. You just don't like what they're doing, start indulging wild fantasies about them, and think the death penalty should apply for setting a car on fire, which it should not.

[Brenden]

jno, you cannot have any brains to behave the way they are at the moment,and I am sure that VHG has not given a thought to the death penalty as you have.

[jno]

everybody has brains, some just choose to think differently from others. For instance, when I see the use of live ammuntion advocated, I tend to think it's meant to threaten death (as one person has already been shot). What would you be using it for?

[Brenden]

jno, Tottenham and Hackney are full of guns most in the hands of unlicensed people, what do they want them for? You never know how tooled up these thugs are on the streets.

[Philtaz]

Footage would suggest that the Police response to all of this looting and violence is woefully inadequate and passive.

What they need is a Humber 'Flying Pig' that was used to great effect in Northern Ireland. They could clear a street of rioters in seconds and cut a swathe through any barriers etc with ease.

http://media.photobuc...04-1.jpg?t=1291063194

[DTCwordfan]

so where do you want to export them to VHG, Australia?

Though N Korea may be a good idea.

[sandyRoe]

VHG, a Tory government did once try what you suggested, sending troops to open fire on civilians. That came to be known as Bloody Sunday. Some people believe that one act was responsible for the fact that the violence in NI lasted almost 40 years with 3000+ deaths.