Riots in Tottenham, London! (NO RACIST COMMENTS)

muon · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:36

Surely professional thieves must be targeting high value targets whilst the police are stretched?

Merlin5 · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:36

stockwell road and coldharbour lane is now blocked

55 arrested from totteham riot

6 fire engines brixton road footlockers store

Biohazard · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:36

Purdy said:
So what is the reason all this is happening?

Swagger jagger.

Azza · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:37

Twitter rumour

bomb threat at Southgate tube station, 100+ police around the area

Biohazard · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:37

ghost101 said:
Surely professional thieves must be targeting high value targets whilst the police are stretched?

Yes I would think so. There will be more going on off radar, off street level. People will take advantage.

chid76 · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:37

I live in Walthamstow, was a chopper up a while ago and have seen a few police cars racing about but thats about it.
Have seen pic's of whats going on in the market though, Barclays bank, bhs and other shops broken into

Azza · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:39

Vodafone in Brixton(?) looks rather empty...

daz · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:40

Twitter reckons it's all kicking off in Brixton. Nothing on BBC or Sky.

Strife212 · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:41

Well if you look at the BBC site you wouldn't even know anything was happening. Some stock market story is the top story.

magick · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:41

daz said:
Twitter reckons it's all kicking off in Brixton. Nothing on BBC or Sky.

yeah there seems to be a media blackout

Azza · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:43

Bloke on LBC lives in Brixton and just walked passed Currys and has just said that a petrol bomb has been thrown at a fire engine tackling the FootLocker that's on fire.

Unconfirmed reports that the Currys is on fire as well.

gothic_hobbit · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:43

Strife212 said:
It's actually reached true madness now. There needs to be some kind of force deployed surely?

This.

Send in the army and deploy a shoot to kill policy !

magick · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:44

anyone know if this is from riots?

Over Clocker · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:44

Brixton Fire station is under attack

Police are currently stopping the attack.

Azza · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:44

lol Magick no it isn't mate.

Merlin5 · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:45

Someone on LBC now saying a petrol bomb thrown at a fire engine at footlocker and that it's all kicking off in brixton with hundreds of rioters.

Halfords in chingford had an attempted break in but police stopped 5 kids doing it.

Nexus · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:45

Just watched a gang of kids walk out of the estate from my window in the direction of Holloway Road. All of them were pretty young.

stulid · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:45

I could do with getting me some looting right now.

asim18 · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:47

God save the Queen.

Azza · 8 Aug 2011 at 01:47

LBC had a text from guy in Leyton saying the Tesco there has been looted as well.