Not sure if this is news stateside yet but London has desdenced in to total chaos over the past couple of days, BBC News - Further riots in London as violence spreads across England pretty worrying stuff, sitting here in the office watching riot vans scream down the street, and it's spreading in to other cities .. crazy days!
twinimini: The cops shot and killed Mark Duggan. Supposedly he had some ties to gangs in Lodnon, and the first report stated that he(or one of the others in the minivan) shot at the cops as well, but that has now been denied by Independent Police Complaints Commission. A LOT of various versions to the event that sparked the whole thing, so I assume we will have to wait a bit to get info.
the shooting was the original incident, but it's since moved from riots to opportunistic looting, burgalry and burning of property, absolutely shameful behaviour... Really feel for the police, their hands are tied because the politicians don't want to move away from the uk's 'traditional' softly softly method of policing .... Civil unrest is a bit of a reality check for the government...... Sorry about the dodgy grammar and spelling, typing this on my phone
the shooting was the original incident, but it's since moved from riots to opportunistic looting, burgalry and burning of property, absolutely shameful behaviour... Really feel for the police, their hands are tied because the politicians don't want to move away from the uk's 'traditional' softly softly method of policing .... Civil unrest is a bit of a reality check for the government...... Sorry about the dodgy grammar and spelling, typing this on my phone
Who cares if he fired or not, he was carrying a gun, a known drug dealer and gang member and if the Police felt they needed to mount a specific operation against him then he wasn't someone who deserves to be on the streets anyway.
There are no issues, it's not a protest. It's (as coined by Sky) "recreational looting." You dont go looting a LED TV because some drug dealer you never heard of got shot. The feral youth of England saw what an easy time those in Tottenham had and thought to themselves "We'll have a bit of that", and they did. The UK Police were a joke on Monday and must be the laughing stock of the World. Obviously it's not the Police Officers themselves fault, more the people that dictate how they must respond to such situations.
I dont usually like the Daily Mail or Richard Littlejohn, but he's not far off the mark with this article: London riots: Red sky at night, Tottenham's alight | Mail Online
Never defended him, Steve Im just stating what Ive read and regardless of my personal opinion of the bastard, I still want to get as accurate info as possible before I start ranting, hehe.
