boohoo
No.
That's not the co-op that's the old theatre and what was the ice skating rink at some point.
Kicking Off In Tottenham
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That's not the co-op that's the old theatre and what was the ice skating rink at some point.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
FFS - Whenever the police kill someone in cold blood they always put out a bullshit story that makes them look good and the victim look bad. The 'he fired first - but bullet lodged in coppers radio' sounds exactly like bullshit and I thought that the moment I heard the first report.
The cops do exactly the same whenever their is a riot as well. Expect some more bullshit about how it all started - police moved into the crowd to rescue a kitten or something.
From whats coming out it sounds like there was an angry demo and the police respsonded to it with aggro, thereby kicking everything off.
The cops do exactly the same whenever their is a riot as well. Expect some more bullshit about how it all started - police moved into the crowd to rescue a kitten or something.
From whats coming out it sounds like there was an angry demo and the police respsonded to it with aggro, thereby kicking everything off.
boohoo
No.
Bad reputations for areas stick like glue - and there is no convincing people of the niceness of a place -they just mention there was a riot many years ago.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Moonie Nile Gardiner thinks the cuts haven't gone deep enough.
The comments are, predictably, full of the usual racist garbage.
This j_striker is a real charmer.
The comments are, predictably, full of the usual racist garbage.
This j_striker is a real charmer.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Just catching up with this now - looks from the BBC website like the police took out one scumbag and the other scumbags used it as an excuse to come out and trash and loot the area, which is all nice and neat for anyone who isn't immediately reminded of those initial reports of the executed Arab-looking terrorist jumping over the Tube barriers wearing his bomb vest only for him later to turn into a central American electrician on the way to work.
Awful for the community either way with all the damage that's been done.
Awful for the community either way with all the damage that's been done.
This, I dont know how anyone can take the Met's word on anything given their long and ongoing history of bullshit.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
You don't have a clue do you? The old Co-Op building is stunning, it was renovated to provide affordable housing, gorgeous flats with floor to ceiling windows. All gone, just charred remains left. The poor people who lived there.
Bloke on Sky News earlier said they had to leave with just the clothes they had on, they have lost their home and everything in it.
Oh stop being such a pathetic liberal apologist.
Luther Blissett
Nomadologist
You can see the old co-op building, white, square towered, to the right
So lets go and fuck innocent local people up to make a point ? Yeah great idea...
5t3IIa
Registered User
Innit.
5t3IIa
Registered User
It's not making a point, I don't think. It's the relentless catalogue of official bullshit is alienating the populace.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Not necessarily true. Brixton's still got the reputation but has been flooded by the middle classes. Fair enough, they wouldn't come 25 years ago or even 15 years ago
5t3IIa
Registered User
clearly a commentator in touch
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
If the report is correct that an unarmed 16 year old girl got battered outside the cop shop, by cops, then there's only one mob to blame. That' not to say i agree with some events that happened last night.
For anyone who hasn't heard it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcwUyZ68C0k
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
not to nitpick, but IIRC noone ever said that they had found a bomb with Jean Charles, or that they had found a gun with Harry Stanley.
boohoo
No.
There are still loads of people that are funny about Brixton. I know work colleagues who thinks it's novel to have past through here accidentally on a night out.
roctrevezel
Member
I wonder how many of the 42 people arrested thus far (BBC News 24) actually live in the area.
Mooncat
Hug me - I'm vaccinated
Just been speaking to my ex who was at a rave on Fontaine Road and she says there was definitely an air of racial tension. The rioters were pretty much all black and she was advised by a white guy who's mate had been beaten up to leave the area. Now - this guy who was beaten up did have a pro video camera so I'm more inclined to think that's the reason but I wasn't there myself.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Yes I realise that, but it has changed hugely in the last 10 years compared to 25 years ago. 25 years ago, everyone's jaw dropped if you said you lived in Brixton, now it's more a smallish percentage (most often for me, from people who don't know London)
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
have another think about it when you've calmed down. you're reacting emotionally, much like the rioters
Mooncat
Hug me - I'm vaccinated
Quite a few from what I understand speaking to people who were there
Mr.Bishie
pickled egg
But two innocent people were gunned down anyway, just to be on the safe side like.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Wouldn't surprise me if most of them don't. I remember with the last mini Brixton riots, a lot of them had come in from Tooting and Peckham and other nearby areas.
Tottenham's on the Victoria Line so easily got to from Brixton for those so inclined
Geri
wasn't born to follow
I saw plenty of white people masked up and looting on the news.
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