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Brixton violence and looting (7th Aug 2011)

Friend of mine's kids have just been sent home from the Ritzy, film was stopped halfway through and audience told to leave...
 
Just heard lewisham, sydenham all shut down. Ppl congregating on walworth road preparatory to more "action".
 
It's so tricky to know what is real and what is rumour. My instinct is to stay open in protest of the chaos that is going on but I have 6 members of staff, and I will not risk their safety.
 
Brixton Hill shops being closed down. White Horse, Fortress Locks etc. being boarded up. There are loads of rumours, most unconfirmed, but no-one is taking chances.
 
I was looking forward to coming by for a cake this evening but I'd much rather do without a cake than risk there being no shop.
 
Ms. Cupcake said:
It's so tricky to know what is real and what is rumour. My instinct is to stay open in protest of the chaos that is going on but I have 6 members of staff, and I will not risk their safety.
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Depends on how far they have to go and what travel options they have too.
 
tomapep said:
Just heard lewisham, sydenham all shut down. Ppl congregating on walworth road preparatory to more "action".
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staff at cooltan arts (off east street) are going home as elephant and castle's 'too dangerous' :/
 
Ms. Cupcake said:
It's so tricky to know what is real and what is rumour. My instinct is to stay open in protest of the chaos that is going on but I have 6 members of staff, and I will not risk their safety.
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Oh, I'm not saying you're panicking or that the police are, I was just wondering if you'd be told of any genuine intelligence by the police. Course you should shut up. People are more valuable than properties, not that I want any more properties damaged/looted/burned
 
helicopters overhead now... wierd - I can hear the kids playing in the playground and the choppers at the same time...
 
kittyP said:
Damn. I need to go to the shops. Should I go out now quickly then?
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I would. I've just put a stew in the slow cooker but off to shops to get milk and bread before they all shut, and need to get prescription urgently from chemist. Getting a bit worried they're going to close
 
every shop from the tube station on up is shut. all the banks too.

john bishop on five live right now is priceless btw. he's sposed to be talking about his book or something but just said 'errrrm... whats the point, londons burrrning'

and is also very eloquent on what's going on.
 
quimcunx said:
Yeah have the police actually been going round instructing people to shut up in Brixton?
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They have in the centre - at the Ritzy for example. Up Brixton Hill, it's mostly been personal SMS messages, and several shops have their shutters half down ready for a quick closure, but are still open in the mean time.
 
Too late. Just come back from Brixton to get some provisions and the police have been telling all businesses to shut up shop so I came back empty handed apart from 20 fags which I got just before the shop shutters came down.
 
-Federation Coffee just tweeted that rumours are unfounded - nothing going on in Brixton.
 
There's so many rumours going around. Are the shops closing and streets being emptied unnecessarily? This potentially makes the situation much worse. Isn't a shop is much less likely to be looted if it's staffed and has customers in it.

Easy to say from home I guess. :-\
 
I thought rumours were meant for twitter and we were doing well at sticking to what we know for ourselves.
 
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