Brixton violence and looting (7th Aug 2011)

[ajdown]

Thanks. I need to go for provisions.

The BBC just said that there is no trouble in London right now. The looters in the Midlands seem to be going for it.

A friend of mine in Custom House posted this earlier on Facebook: "Riot Police in full riot gear and rioters in a face of outside my very door. Police seem to have it under control meantime shops closed. The gangs set a barrier of bins across the road in front of my House they were carying wooden batons. Riot Police took control, still there. Crazy"

No updates from him for about an hour.

 

[Badgers]

Khans is open and so is the Hoot

 

[Ms T]

A friend of mine in Custom House posted this earlier on Facebook: "Riot Police in full riot gear and rioters in a face of outside my very door. Police seem to have it under control meantime shops closed. The gangs set a barrier of bins across the road in front of my House they were carying wooden batons. Riot Police took control, still there. Crazy"

No updates from him for about an hour.

Where's Custom House?

 

[editor]

Where's Custom House?

East London near Canning Town.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=cus...98,0.030084&sspn=0.009095,0.020771&gl=uk&z=15

 

[Gixxer1000]

Can someone set fire to the Santander branch pls? Or just cause at least £150's worth of damage.

Sounds like a custodial.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Unique Dental Care in Tulse Hill.

But who is your dentist?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

My mate just txt me that he saw someone peeling a banana in a really aggressive way outside Herne Hill Station.....A policeman stood nearby did fuck all about it.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

My mate just txt me that he saw someone peeling a banana in a really aggressive way outside Herne Hill Station.....A policeman stood nearby did fuck all about it.

I'm sure when the policeman slips on the banana skin there'll be all hell to pay

 

[ajdown]

My mate just txt me that he saw someone peeling a banana in a really aggressive way outside Herne Hill Station.....A policeman stood nearby did fuck all about it.

Send the bastards 'ome.

 

[TruXta]

My mate just txt me that he saw someone peeling a banana in a really aggressive way outside Herne Hill Station.....A policeman stood nearby did fuck all about it.

Did he squeeze the bottom of the banana like a filthy little monkey?

 

[Gramsci]

I was in West End all day. The Police were advising some offices to go home early. Some of the Banks closed early. There were a lot of Police around the West End all day.

I was told it got quite nasty in Hackney last night. The rioters were also attacking passers by so some people I know stayed in.

I was told by several people that the Turkish shopkeepers decided to stay open. They armed themselves with baseball bats and meat cleavers. They told the rioters to bring it on and they backed off. I was told the Turkish shops did stay open and they were the only ones that did.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I was in West End all day. The Police were advising some offices to go home early. Some of the Banks closed early. There were a lot of Police around the West End all day.

I was told it got quite nasty in Hackney last night. The rioters were also attacking passers by so some people I know stayed in.

I was told by several people that the Turkish shopkeepers decided to stay open. They armed themselves with baseball bats and meat cleavers. They told the rioters to bring it on and they backed off. I was told the Turkish shops did stay open and they were the only ones that did.

Good for them, althouh no doubt they'd be the ones who ended up in court if they ended up using their weapons

 

[TruXta]

You don't fuck with the Turks, Gramsci.

 

[Gramsci]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/09/a-society-of-looters

Letters from MPs John McDonnel and Kaufman

Haven't the warnings been there, from as wide a range of people from Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett to Rowan Williams? We are reaping what has been sown over the last three decades of creating a grotesquely unequal society with an ethos of grab as much as you can by any means. A society of looters created with MPs and their expenses, bankers and their bonuses, tax-evading corporations, hacking journalists, bribe-taking police officers, and now a group of alienated kids are seizing their chance. This is not to condone but to understand. Addressing inequality is the only way we can avoid a rerun of these riots.
John McDonnell MP
Labour, Hayes and Harlington
• If this government implements bigoted policies of social exclusion – deliberate creation of unemployment, ending of education maintenance allowance, dumping of Sure Start, attacks on social housing tenancies et al – then a small but violent minority of those excluded may turn to other ways of being noticed. And the huge police cuts mean that the riots are even more difficult to deal with.
Gerald Kaufman MP
Labour, Manchester Gorton
• The rioters are only doing to the high street what the bankers did to the country. Unlike the bankers, the rioters will no doubt be held to account.
Siôn Jones

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Did he squeeze the bottom of the banana like a filthy little monkey?

 

[Gramsci]

You don't fuck with the Turks, Gramsci.

I know a few Turks. Nice people. But u dont mess with the Sons of Ataturk Remember Gallipoli

I notice this was also reported in the Standard today. I heard it from several people who live in North East London independently of each other. So I reckon its not just a rumour. Bit embarassing for the Cops that people had to take the law into there own hands.

Its a bit scary as this is potentially causing divisions between different minority groups.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

• The rioters are only doing to the high street what the bankers did to the country. Unlike the bankers, the rioters will no doubt be held to account.
Siôn Jones

Absolutely. The last few days are nothing compared to destruction and violence wreaked on the people by the banks and the Government.

 

[Gramsci]

Boris gets heckled:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/09/boris-johnson-heckled-riot-clapham-junction-video

 

[Brixton Hatter]

On a brighter note, my builder neighbour has made a mint today boarding up shops with massive sheets of chipboard

 

[sparkybird]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/09/a-society-of-looters

• If this government implements bigoted policies of social exclusion – deliberate creation of unemployment, ending of education maintenance allowance, dumping of Sure Start, attacks on social housing tenancies et al – then a small but violent minority of those excluded may turn to other ways of being noticed. And the huge police cuts mean that the riots are even more difficult to deal with.
Gerald Kaufman MP
Labour, Manchester Gorton /quote]

Tsk, I wondered how long it would be before Labour starting using the riots for their own political end - PATHETIC

 

[Gramsci]

Someone sent me this as the new way to get around London

 

[editor]

If only I'd invested in glazing.

 

[Gramsci]

@Sparkybird
I agree with them these two MPs. These MPs McDonnel and Kaufman views are totally different to Tessa Jowels and Steve Reeds. Its not using it for there own political ends.

 

[Emet]

Good for them, althouh no doubt they'd be the ones who ended up in court if they ended up using their weapons

The Guardian said that the police asked them to do nothing but didn't act when, armed with knives, they chased the looters off.

 

[pk]

Its a bit scary as this is potentially causing divisions between different minority groups.

The REAL working class versus the scrotes. Bring it on.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Guardian said that the police asked them to do nothing but didn't act when, armed with knives, they chased the looters off.

Yes, but they didn't actually hit any of them did they? Would probably have been a different story if they'd actually used their baseball bats (although I'd quite happily turn a blind eye)

 

[TruXta]

Yes, it probably is.

 

[TruXta]

On a brighter note, my builder neighbour has made a mint today boarding up shops with massive sheets of chipboard

Timber yards and builders all over London making a mint I reckon. Good for them then.

 

[Lo Siento.]

so, in conclusion, no serious rioting anywhere in London this evening? Hackney was quiet, bit tense like when I went out earlier.

 

[gabi]

about 5 kids getting arrested at the brixton bus stop at the moment after objecting to being (pretty roughly) searched. one girl in particular seems to be giving them hell