After Mark Duggan was shot by police, (I have no problems with that, you carry a firearm it's a risk you run, tuff titty) that part of the highroad was closed off for a couple of days as a crime scene. This meant that locals were having to walk through a nearby park to bypass the closed off section of the high street. Part of that route was through a poorly lit park where muggings were commonplace after dark. A lot of the locals were up in arms that the police wouldn't provide extra plod to safeguard people walking that way after dark. I saw no 'anarchist' involvement in Tottenham, and to be fair, anarchists don't usually go looting, they just like top smash stuff up.
After the initial protest at the police station, things got a bit heated as the police refused to send out a representative to meet the group. It was after this as darkness started to fall that the local 'yoofs' grasped the opportunity to have a go at the police. Sensing the police inability to take control of the situation, it then started to descend into anarchy and looting. Blackberry BBM was then used to orchestrate the looting of the nearby retail park at Tottenham Hale, knowing the police would be too occupied trying to contain events in the high street to respond quickly to the looting going on at the retail park. After that, the tactic has been used to loot other shops. It's all about personal gain and organised crime, which is why retail outlets, particularly phones & electronics suppliers have been targeted. What happened in Ealing for instance was a gang of about 250-300 from outside the area just looting the high street and basically being cunts. On 10 Aug 2011, at 12:01, Mark Humphries wrote: > What happened was there was a protest march for the shooting, this was a > peaceful march and the policing was anything but rough - the police had a > very small presence precisely to prevent antagonism. What then happened was > a bunch of idiots (I have heard it was the anarchist lot) hijacked the march > and started the violence. > > > > But don't let the facts get in the way of your political agenda! > > > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it)
