OT: London Riots
The city has gone mental. Hope everyone is ok
It’s ridiculous here. I live in in East Dulwich not too far from Peckham and it’s going crazy.
It’s going metal in Birmingham as well. They don’t give two shits about the protests - it’s just scumbags spotting an opportunity to be violent and steal!! Disgraceful!!
indeed, getting worse and spreading, i kind of agree in an uprising as we are controlled to much by the nanny goverment and coverups but the looting and whole chav tasticness off it all is 2 much.
Thing is it happens in europe alot look at greece turkey and even france, they stick up for themselves and yet it happens in UK and its like the worst thing in the work, its half media hype.
etherway its bloody chavs and no respect for another persons property!
It’s rioting for violence’s sake with no real reason behind it. Disgraceful if you ask me. I’m all for people’s right to protest, and I’ve been on a few demos in my time, but nothing warrants this.
Well, except a zombie uprising. That would be fair enough.
+1
Did this start as a protest against the nanny state? What’s the political story behind this?
A taxi driver was mistakenly shot dead by the police in tottenham last thursday in some kind of operation against gun crime.
You guys have guns in the UK?! I thought it was just us redneck yankees.
But seriously, that’s really sad that they shot someone that didn’t do anything. Hope his family gets some kind of settlement.
The UK has guns like Saudi Arabia has McDonalds - you can find em but they aint on every street corner like the US. Hmmm. maybe that’s just where I live…the guns that is, not McDonalds, actually, hold on… oh someone shoot me.
arnt gun laws really tight over there in the first place?
i dont mind a taxi driver with a gun. their job is one of the most dangerous simply because of all the people they come in contact with
the guns laws are MUCH stricter than they are here. There was a series of shootings in a sleepy village called Hungerford back in the day. It was a “gun enthusiast” who just happened to have a small arms cache in his garden shed. He went out around the village shooting people. They locked that shit down real quick after that (not that it was ever as lax is the US is).
No the taxi driver was just a bystander that was shot by mistake. It wasn’t until the saturday when a crowd formed outside tottenham police station, but it wasn’t until the night time when the rioting started.
This is just whats going on in London!
Northerners jumping in on the action now 
This looks terrifying. Its a video of a mob running at the police.
large scale riots don’t just conflagrate from thin air. What is the profile of the typical rioter and what existing discontent (percieved or real) served as the springboard?
My tv died yesterday…
tempting…
j/k
I just think the rioters are idiotic and have no thoughts for the future! Probably people with more time on their hands than sense because they are unemployed and ‘don’t get enough benefits’
Sometimes this country irriates the living shit out of me! Nothing GREAT about Britain!
The country is going down the shitpan!
A somewhat related article
Quite a long read but interesting nonetheless.
A taxi driver didnt get shot did he? The guy who got shot was a “gangsta” according to the papers. He was being investigated for something and during the operation they were following him, he was in the back of a taxi. The police were shot at and they shot him. Thats what i’ve read so far anyway.