Dan1025
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Not sure how many here have been following the rioting going on across several parts of England over the last 3-4 nights, thought I'd start a thread for those of us currently in the UK or England, and anyone else who wants to join the discussion.
What began with a peaceful protest against the shooting of a 29 year old man by police officers (the details of which are still unknown) has now turned into a a self sustaining series of riots across several English cities, with London being the worst affected. Rioters have been setting fires, looting shops & businesses and attacking police over the last 3 nights. Some 16,000 police have now been deployed in London alone to try and restore order, but there is still heavy rioting going in Manchester.
Both the London Mayer Boris Johnson and the Prime Minister David Cameron have cut short their summer breaks and returned, with the PM scheduled to host emergency meetings of the cabinet later this week.
The Metropolitan police report that they've arrested nearly 700 people since the rioting began, with almost every London jail now full and prisoners being tranferred to other areas. They're also publishiing the faces/images of any rioters caught on CCTV cameras to try and identify them for future arrest & prosecution.
The situation has now essentially become a way for the angry members of many communities who have problems with the police and the government to vent their frustrations, and a lot of people are simply being swept up in mob mentalities and commiting acts of violence and vandalism for no reason whatsoever. The behaviour of those roaming the streets causing trouble is nothing less than disgraceful, there are even reports of 10-12 year olds breaking into shops & joining the looting.
The BBC News website has a lot more detailed information than I can type up here, so please have a look and see whats been going on:
BBC News - Home
I'm in Gloucester at the moment, very near the city centre in the house I share with several university friends, and the riots have apparently started up here as well (news seems too focused on London to have noticed just yet). There are currently at least 3 police helicopters flying around near my house, and there are reports of rioting going on about 5 mins walk from here in several directions. Several friends have told me that the local supermarket (where I actually went grocery shopping earlier this afternoon) has already been vandalised, and several shops are on fire. Needless to say my housmates & I are more than a little concerned.
With any luck things will settle here pretty quick, our concern is also that at least some of our police may have been redeployed to deal with bigger riots going on in Birmingham.
I've never seen incidents like this in all my life living in the UK, it's seriously shaking to see things like this going on in places I'm very familiar with.
What began with a peaceful protest against the shooting of a 29 year old man by police officers (the details of which are still unknown) has now turned into a a self sustaining series of riots across several English cities, with London being the worst affected. Rioters have been setting fires, looting shops & businesses and attacking police over the last 3 nights. Some 16,000 police have now been deployed in London alone to try and restore order, but there is still heavy rioting going in Manchester.
Both the London Mayer Boris Johnson and the Prime Minister David Cameron have cut short their summer breaks and returned, with the PM scheduled to host emergency meetings of the cabinet later this week.
The Metropolitan police report that they've arrested nearly 700 people since the rioting began, with almost every London jail now full and prisoners being tranferred to other areas. They're also publishiing the faces/images of any rioters caught on CCTV cameras to try and identify them for future arrest & prosecution.
The situation has now essentially become a way for the angry members of many communities who have problems with the police and the government to vent their frustrations, and a lot of people are simply being swept up in mob mentalities and commiting acts of violence and vandalism for no reason whatsoever. The behaviour of those roaming the streets causing trouble is nothing less than disgraceful, there are even reports of 10-12 year olds breaking into shops & joining the looting.
The BBC News website has a lot more detailed information than I can type up here, so please have a look and see whats been going on:
BBC News - Home
I'm in Gloucester at the moment, very near the city centre in the house I share with several university friends, and the riots have apparently started up here as well (news seems too focused on London to have noticed just yet). There are currently at least 3 police helicopters flying around near my house, and there are reports of rioting going on about 5 mins walk from here in several directions. Several friends have told me that the local supermarket (where I actually went grocery shopping earlier this afternoon) has already been vandalised, and several shops are on fire. Needless to say my housmates & I are more than a little concerned.
With any luck things will settle here pretty quick, our concern is also that at least some of our police may have been redeployed to deal with bigger riots going on in Birmingham.
I've never seen incidents like this in all my life living in the UK, it's seriously shaking to see things like this going on in places I'm very familiar with.