Riots in Tottenham, London! (NO RACIST COMMENTS)

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All camera crews pulled back for their own safety.
Oh man, I want live footage not looped repeats.
Oi, bald headed BBC reporter get back in there with your camera man.
 
Wrt to the commissioner saying it's a "disturbance", if it's declared a riot, insurance companies won't pay out, the government has to. Just saying.
 
Biohazard said:
Terrible parent? I'm not sure that's particularly fair from one photograph.
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One photograph in which she's chosen to walk her children through a riot that is now so bad that all the media organisations have pulled their camera crews out of it.

Biohazard said:
She could have been waiting for a safe route home for all you know.
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Even if that was correct it means she must have been elsewhere - why would she possibly not stay there, rather than enter an extremely dangerous area with two young children in tow?

In the end of the day, the primary role of a parent is to keep your children safe. Walking them in to a riot is the opposite of that - it's negligent in the extreme.

Sky News just said that they had to withdraw their crew because they were being surrounded by 'youths'.
 
fini said:
Camera crews used to enter war zones - now they wont even go to Tottenham. I appreciate that the BBC crew was attacked, but surely you just stay a bit far back rather than just giving up completely? Now there's no live coverage at all.
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The Olympic show was scheduled to air anyway. Normal news coverage resumes at 2am.
 
Biohazard said:
None of you ever stayed up late at weekends or holidays, never occasionally went out at the weekend with your parents to events or friends and stayed up a little later? Or went to sleep, and were woken to go to the car etc?

I did, and I have perfect control.

I think some people must have lived like robots as children by the sounds of it.
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I don't think I ever stayed up this late even on NYE as a child.

Anyway I reckon it looks like she's trying to leave the area and getting her bairns to safety, like someone said earlier she may live above one of the shops.
 
fini said:
One photograph in which she's chosen to walk her children through a riot that is now so bad that all the media organisations have pulled their camera crews out of it.
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You must be looking at a different photograph.

She isn't walking through a riot, she's walking through a rubbish and emergency vehicle strewen street.


fini said:
Even if that was correct it means she must have been elsewhere - why would she possibly not stay there, rather than enter an extremely dangerous area with two young children in tow?
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This is pointless conjecture as you do not know where she was going or had been.

fini said:
In the end of the day, the primary role of a parent is to keep your children safe. Walking them in to a riot is the opposite of that - it's negligent in the extreme.
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How do you know she was walking them into a riot?

You must loan me your crystal ball some time, I'd have a good use for it.

fini said:
Sky News just said that they had to withdraw their crew because they were being surrounded by 'youths'.
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I have no doubt parts of London are very dangerous right now, but you are making huge assumptions on the basis of two photographs and you have no real basis into which you can make. Her front door could have been 2 ft away, or 2000ft.
 
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fini said:
I'm not sure how a guy on a bike's gonna help? :p
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LOL! :D

Speirs said:
Because there's loads of copper choppers already up there.
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During the student protests there were about 7 choppers over whitehall!


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Looks like an Aldi (?) on fire!

BBC news is back to normal.

From twitter: "BBC crew are shaken but ok. Thanks for concern. Our sat truck is damaged."
 
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I (genuinely) apologise if this has already been raised, but frankly these threads move quick and if I have to read 531+ posts before I reply, I'll have another 300 to get through by the time I get there.

This 'disturbance' is an absolute disgrace, and a shame upon the people who perpetrated it. What on earth does torching vehicles, infrastructure, shops and homes have to do with protesting a (very justified) police shooting?

Am I the only one half-thinking that since they've decided to act like enemy combatants/terrorists then we ought to be responding as such? :o I mean seriously: petrol bombing police officers, torching the whole town and destroying indiscriminately? *shakes head*
 
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