I know this is more of Deamero's thing but still, I LOL'ed HARD! at this one. http://kotaku.com/58...ng?popular=true As you all have heard by now parts of London are literally being set on fire by rioters do to the shooting of a 29 year old black male, who may or may not have been armed at all. The police report indicates that the kid shot at them, and was then shot in self-defense. Apparently there is reason to believe he was unarmed so the "kids" have taken to the streets, Looting, burning, and Pillaging everything in site, if you watch this video I saw on Kotaku, you can see a row of more than 5 houses being burned down. http://kotaku.com/58...ff-like-the-wii (Since the story's about a sony warehouse, that might be the warehouse, but I can't really tell because its so dark.) It is surprising to see this happen to say the least, Especially since most of these peoples homes, and businesses had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting. I would understand a little more if they went after the police station, or parliament, but these are just innocent peoples homes. Thoughts? Comment? Talk away.
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I' don't really have a knowledge of riots, that is why this is appalling to me. I mean come on these are innocent people. they had absolutely zero to do with the shooting yet somehow we should all burn their houses down because that's how you protest hurting innocent civilians.
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I didn't post about this mainly because they're burning down family owned business and everything in sight. They aren't making a statement to the government they're lining their pockets.
The thing I find fishy though is the cops are letting it happen. Multiple eye witness accounts from people who are saying cops are just standing by and letting it happen.
This will probably be pointed to by the US when they decide to take our right to protest away, "See they can't be trusted to protest, they're all crazy."
It's absolutely no coincidence they've let it go on for how long now? At least 4 days?
Yeah it seems like they have things completely under control.
I'm sorry but I thought it was the polices job to PROTECT and SERVE, at least it is here in America. When they stand by and twiddle their fingers while rioters set buildings on fire with people still inside of them that's not protecting. When they watch people be pulled from their cars and savagely beaten, that's not protecting. When people are phoning the police for help because they're boarded up inside a bar with rioters outside and the police ignore them, that's not serving.
Standard procedure for where? A near lawless wasteland? Look at the US, police don't stand by, or Canada, or Greece.
I'm curious as to what the police are keeping them from destroying. Usually they blockade "important" stuff. As you can see during the G20 in Canada in the film Into The Fire. They'll protect government buildings and government officials houses with blockades like that. Everyone else's rights are forfeit.
Escape? They haven't even arrested any yet as far as I've seen, at least not in Britain.
But yes during the G20 they told protestors, which is what almost all of them were to go south, so they'd go south, the police there told them to go east, then west, etc, until they boxed them in and arrested them all. Which by that time it was the end of the protests and half of those people were just seeing what was going on outside. They boxed them in at a intersection and arrested them.
Yeah nothing suspicious about the government standing aside and letting things go. NOW after all of this going on for 4 days they decide to step in. The damage is done folks, this is something that will likely affect laws being passed and the stripping of rights. Now they can point back to this and say "SEE we need the police to carry guns, but you still can't its for your own safety!"
Can anyone actually explain what these riots are even about? This is obviously not an attempt to overthrow the government, it seems wholly unlikely it's all happening just because the police killed one guy in a gunfight, and if they're protesting against all the government spending that's being cut due to the financial crisis, why aren't they out actually protesting rather than just stealing and destroying shit?
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I think it started with that shooting but then the cops stood down as they were ordered to and the rioters saw they could get away with it and well now its mass chaos 5 days in they're considering doing something.
Yeah they are protesting because apparently They shot a Young Black male, Who allegedly shot first and there was a shell casing in the Cop's radio, but I believe it was an officers not the mans, then It came into question did he even have a gun? Did he actually shoot first or was this just a hate-crime? Then they confirmed there was a non-police issued handgun at the scene, but still no evidence of the black male shooting, So the RETARDED YOUTH took to the streets and started burning shit down and then looting in a certain area i think its tottenham or something, but somehow over the course of this all it has spread to like five major cities for basically no reason I can think of. I mean they didn't know the people involved with the crime so I'm either oblivious to the fact as why everyone else started looting and killing and burning or they really are just that retarded.
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I didn't post about this mainly because they're burning down family owned business and everything in sight. They aren't making a statement to the government they're lining their pockets.
The thing I find fishy though is the cops are letting it happen. Multiple eye witness accounts from people who are saying cops are just standing by and letting it happen.
This will probably be pointed to by the US when they decide to take our right to protest away, "See they can't be trusted to protest, they're all crazy."
It's absolutely no coincidence they've let it go on for how long now? At least 4 days?
In our governments defense( I don't know that I've ever said that before), if the right to protest is done away with, it's our own fault for doing stupid shit like protesting a soldiers funeral. C'mon...really? Those people need an ass beating if you ask me.
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I didn't post about this mainly because they're burning down family owned business and everything in sight. They aren't making a statement to the government they're lining their pockets.
The thing I find fishy though is the cops are letting it happen. Multiple eye witness accounts from people who are saying cops are just standing by and letting it happen.
This will probably be pointed to by the US when they decide to take our right to protest away, "See they can't be trusted to protest, they're all crazy."
It's absolutely no coincidence they've let it go on for how long now? At least 4 days?
In our governments defense( I don't know that I've ever said that before), if the right to protest is done away with, it's our own fault for doing stupid shit like protesting a soldiers funeral. C'mon...really? Those people need an ass beating if you ask me.
Agreed Those people thought the people keeping them and their families safe from a terrorist invasion were devils messengers. PATHETIC.
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The thing I find fishy though is the cops are letting it happen. Multiple eye witness accounts from people who are saying cops are just standing by and letting it happen.
This will probably be pointed to by the US when they decide to take our right to protest away, "See they can't be trusted to protest, they're all crazy."
It's absolutely no coincidence they've let it go on for how long now? At least 4 days?
I'm sorry but I thought it was the polices job to PROTECT and SERVE, at least it is here in America. When they stand by and twiddle their fingers while rioters set buildings on fire with people still inside of them that's not protecting. When they watch people be pulled from their cars and savagely beaten, that's not protecting. When people are phoning the police for help because they're boarded up inside a bar with rioters outside and the police ignore them, that's not serving.
Standard procedure for where? A near lawless wasteland? Look at the US, police don't stand by, or Canada, or Greece.
There is something very fishy about this.
But yes during the G20 they told protestors, which is what almost all of them were to go south, so they'd go south, the police there told them to go east, then west, etc, until they boxed them in and arrested them all. Which by that time it was the end of the protests and half of those people were just seeing what was going on outside. They boxed them in at a intersection and arrested them.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/871655-tottenham-riots-police-stood-back-and-let-protestors-take-over-streets
Police were ordered to do nothing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024412/London-riots-Police-soft-looters-ordered-stand-observe.html
"Media" offered youths money to riot.
http://www.infowars.com/claim-youths-offered-money-to-start-riots/
Yeah nothing suspicious about the government standing aside and letting things go. NOW after all of this going on for 4 days they decide to step in. The damage is done folks, this is something that will likely affect laws being passed and the stripping of rights. Now they can point back to this and say "SEE we need the police to carry guns, but you still can't its for your own safety!"
Now they're arresting people, NOW.
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16047028
The Sun ran a poll that shows the citizens want something done to stop it.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3743390/Use-LIVE-bullets-say-33-in-Sun-poll.html
They're gonna let it get out of control to the point where the police are now going to be carrying live rounds.
Way to cheer us up in a time like this +1 from me man!
Now they're wanting to cut off ALL access to social networking sites, and deploy the army on the streets.
That worked well when Egypt did it, huh?
You answered your own question.
I think it started with that shooting but then the cops stood down as they were ordered to and the rioters saw they could get away with it and well now its mass chaos 5 days in they're considering doing something.
In our governments defense( I don't know that I've ever said that before), if the right to protest is done away with, it's our own fault for doing stupid shit like protesting a soldiers funeral. C'mon...really? Those people need an ass beating if you ask me.
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Agreed Those people thought the people keeping them and their families safe from a terrorist invasion were devils messengers. PATHETIC.