Riots in Tottenham, London! (NO RACIST COMMENTS)

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 21:47

http://www.zavilia.com/

Fill out the form if you recognise anyone!

(doubt anyone on here are associated with these 'people')

It's all over twitter now!

Anyone know what's going on? Heard something about a police shooting.

EDIT: Spelling fail title!! (thanks mods

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explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 21:54

Riot police out.

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 22:15

Sky now saying a crowd of around 300 people have gathered at the 'disturbance'

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 22:32

Reports of looting now coming in from LBC and twitter.

Caller on LBC saying an excess of 400 people

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 22:49

Unconfirmed reports of a bus being set alight!

Break out the rubber bullets and water cannons!

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 22:56

Live pictures on Sky News now!

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 23:00

Neil79 said:
Looking at that video snapshot, i see a lot of black nationality!. Explicit4u is it mainly black culture living where you are?

I live in NW London, near Hampstead so no. The majority of people in my area are middle class and white. Unfortunately, like most areas in inner London we aren't far away from 'troubled' areas so we do get a a lot of non locals causing problems.

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 23:08

lol at the 'low emission' sign next to the burning bus!

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 23:23

Fire crews getting to work on the burning shop. Sky just showed footage of a young male with a shopping trolley full of what can only be looted goods.

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 23:34

A lot of people are starting to link this to the Tories and spending cuts!

Reports saying kids as young as 8 years old are joining the fray.

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 23:38

Some idiots are throwing fireworks into the crowd!

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 23:41

there's some chav standing in front of the police horses with his arms outstretched in a 'come at me bro' stance.

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 23:51

billysielu said:
PC has gone too far when you can't say "there's a bunch of black yobs burning stuff"

pioneer2000 said:
Please will someone round up all these foreigners and kick them out. Why tolerate them when all they are bringing is gang culture, bling, rap,drugs and guns. They don't respect anything or anyone.

This country has turned into a cesspit.

There's plenty of native British/White people involved in gangs, drugs, violence etc.

explicit4u · 6 Aug 2011 at 23:58

billysielu said:
I'm not getting into this debate with you, or anyone else.

It matters because it's not a bunch of white yobs setting fire to stuff.

Justintime said:
If racism is looking at a certain ethnic group and pointing out facts about their way of life and their effect on others, on a daily basis and trying to distance oneself from that element of society (of which they have no respect for) then yes, i am a racist.
I see douches from every race, but fact of the matter it seems like in my experience, 8/10 of the 'Negroe' species of man fits into that category.

That's a bit prejudice, even if it was the majority of black people (which it isn't), you can't just group them all together and call it a fact.

explicit4u · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:05

dave_beast said:
Why did the Met create Operation Trident?

To tackle gang/crime related problems within London's black community...

Big bunch of riot officers moving in, full riot gear.

explicit4u · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:09

skippi90 said:
Police suspect Arsene...

I'll get my coat.

explicit4u · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:11

Over Clocker said:
From what I can see the white dudes are just standing around watching, but the black dudes are causing most of the trouble. Nothing racist or prejudiced about that, just fact of the situation.

I'm non white by the way.

Where are people watching this? I'm watching sky and bbc simultaneously and not one of them has a camera close enough to the 'protesters' to be able to distinguish race.

kwerk said:
Institutionalised racism.

It's not racist at all. From what I can see in everyday life in London there seems to be a disproportionate amount of black people involved with gangs and violence. Targeting them is surely a good thing?

Police seem to be charging now..

explicit4u · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:20

OldCoals said:
Then look harder to be honest.

All the action is round the corner where the police vans have moved (out of shot) so it's hard to tell who's causing the problem.

pioneer2000 said:
About 10mins ago they had a prolonged close-up of several black males wearing chains and baseball caps running down towards the cameras away from police.

must have missed that.

White Mouse said:
Ahh yes, the nice area where the rich and politicians live where multiculturalism is a great success as they can get on the tube to London and use a Polish coffee shop, without ever actually experiencing the negative effects of mass immigration .

ghost101 said:
Looks like its clearing up.

Quite the opposite, another building has been reported to be set on fire, the cameras just don't have a clear shot of it.

explicit4u · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:38

Tottenham Riots by Beacon Radio, on Flickr

explicit4u · 7 Aug 2011 at 00:43

Nexus said:
Anyways, back to what's actually happening.
I'm not far from Tottenham, had no idea this was going on, could have been good to go down and get some photos.

I was going to pop down (about 25 minutes on the train) to take some photos but then I heard reports of people with professional cameras being targeted and decided against it.

Nexus said:
Those are some newspaper headline photos right there.
I'd have been on the phone first before uploading them to Flickr!

They're not mine.