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This was no race riot. The riot in Tottenham has destroyed 26 years' of work in building trust between the police and the community, says David Lammy, the MP for Tottenham, in the Times. He was there in 1985, when young black men rioted on the Broadwater Farm estate over the death of a woman during a police raid.
"The 1985 riots were race riots: black youth fighting the police. The weekend's violence was not a race riot, it was an attack on the whole of the Tottenham community, organised on Twitter. That's why so many of the people arrested weren't from Tottenham. The grief of one family must never be hijacked to inflict grief on others."
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This part of the article is interesting.