What's up with London? (riots, merged)

Oberon · 08-07-11, 06:32 PM

If the latest reports on the shooting are true then it'll really put the wind up people, and no mistake. Latest reports indicate that it's mainly opportunistic looting across the area now, and some reports are indicating that there is looting in Brixton, Edmonton and Walthamstow. There's also reports of rioters moving from area to area by car which is making them hard to track. There's been at least one stabbing, but not fatal. All in all though it's not as bad as Tottenham, the police have had a better response time in defusing large scale trouble, however that has meant that those responsible have now split into smaller scale looting/raiding parties and spread out across the area, which makes it very hard to get to. One cannot secure every single HMV in London!

jumpy · 08-08-11, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

If the latest reports on the shooting are true then it'll really put the wind up people, and no mistake.

Are you referring to what I heard on R4 this morning - about the bullet recovered from the injured policeman's radio in the original shooting incident? It was described as 'police issue'. There's zero mention of this on the bbc news website so far and could potentially change the whole situation, freebooters notwithstanding.

Oberon · 08-08-11, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by jumpy

Are you referring to what I heard on R4 this morning - about the bullet recovered from the injured policeman's radio in the original shooting incident? It was described as 'police issue'. There's zero mention of this on the bbc news website so far and could potentially change the whole situation, freebooters notwithstanding.

Indeed it is what I refer to. It seems there is the possibility that Mr Duggan did not fire at police at all, alternatively, there is also the possibility, which cannot be ruled out, that Mr Duggans weapon was police issue and stolen from them in the past. It's too early to say yet...however I'd wager that most people will latch onto the former possibility to disregard the latter...and that means there's going to be even more anger amongst protestors in Tottenham, and the freebooters are going to feel even more justified at attacking a society that in their minds does little more than shoot at them periodically.

08-07-11, 06:32 PM	#1
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	If the latest reports on the shooting are true then it'll really put the wind up people, and no mistake. Latest reports indicate that it's mainly opportunistic looting across the area now, and some reports are indicating that there is looting in Brixton, Edmonton and Walthamstow. There's also reports of rioters moving from area to area by car which is making them hard to track. There's been at least one stabbing, but not fatal. All in all though it's not as bad as Tottenham, the police have had a better response time in defusing large scale trouble, however that has meant that those responsible have now split into smaller scale looting/raiding parties and spread out across the area, which makes it very hard to get to. One cannot secure every single HMV in London!