This isn't about hating the police. They burnt two unnmanned police cars and then just destroyed and looted everything in sight- a bus, several shops and people's houses. It wasn't targeted at the police; it was just outright brutal thuggery and selfishness that harmed shopowners and innocent civilians whose houses got trashed.
Absolutely mindless.
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Same thing happened in Australia a couple of blocks from where I live.
An Aborigine kid (and known dealer) was walking around Redfern back then full low income and welfare bums. And a couple of police officers asked him "hey what are you doing?"
The kid told them to F off and ran for it. The cops told him to stop as he climbed a fence and impaled himself in front of everyone.
Well the gangstas didn't like that and got all their friends, junkies, dealers and homies together and started the Redfern Riots. Nothing compared to the shit you guys get in LA, London or Paris.....
I rarely agree with Ush but do 100% on this occassion. Some people are trying to make out that this is some sort of political statement and backlash of the economic problems in the UK...I've never heard such shit in all my life...The people causing there riots are the same people that would stab you and leave you to die in the street for your wallet and mobile...The looting is purely for self gain and nothing more.
It's actually about about youth with no jobs and prospects, a corrupt Police force who are interested in driving round giving people 3 points and shooting anyone they want, Deaths in Custody, Smiley Culture etc, etc. An underclass who are constantly shown what they can't have. Grandiose schemes which put my Council tax up. A royal family who actually had a Royal wedding which it now appears helped drive down the economic recovery. It's O.K. for people in places like Essex to pretend they understand London and the endemic corruption in the met, they don't. These young men have nothing, were told they were nothing, because schools removed examinations as the main method for academic success and concentrated on coursework, geared towards girls and basically an exercise in compliance and not intelligence, leaving them emasculated. When people have no stake in Society expect them not to follow Society's rules. How the hell did the cop shoot his own Radio!
No, trying to excuse rampant vandalism and naked theft- which is all this is- with any form of political justification is absolute crap. And saying the police in London shoot anyone they want is absolutely pathetic.
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