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Skywalker
08-12-2011, 01:08 AM
Riots take a turn for the worse in Manchester (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cbVW_QS2eE)
Skywalker
08-12-2011, 01:10 AM
Liverpool supporter keeping it real, should be a motivational speaker lol. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l0bkOj1Dr0)
The Ownage
08-12-2011, 09:05 AM
As a person from London who is part of the urban society, I say this was bound to happen sooner or later. It's just the government didn't see it coming.
Stuckey
08-12-2011, 09:53 AM
i'm glad England is at least acting out

by the time America can look away from ESPN or network tv, it will be too late
Rasheed1
08-12-2011, 10:03 AM
Oh please. You WANT them to be the same. You are looking at a cloud and seeing what you want to see.


:facepalm oh please yourself...

you dont know what I want so just stop it
Stuckey
08-12-2011, 10:14 AM
It's not a protest!!!!!!!!!! It's stealing stuff, vandalism and arson nothing more nothing less.

This has nothing to do with cuts, benefits etc it's just people thieving.

if you look past the barbarism, you can see what built up to it?
BRabbiT
08-13-2011, 02:48 AM
[QUOTE]
LONDON -- Thousands of extra police officers were stationed on Britain's streets, as the country faced its first weekend since riots raged through the country's suburbs and town centers, leaving a scarred landscape of broken glass and torched buildings.

Police in London, which saw the worst violence, have charged almost 700 people with violence, disorder and looting, and the city's mayor said Londoners wanted to see tough sentences handed out to the guilty.


Police, meanwhile, hit back Friday against claims they were too soft in their initial response to the disorder.

Prime Minister David Cameron said officers had been overwhelmed at first, outmaneuvered by mobile gangs of rioters. He said "far too few police were deployed onto the streets. And the tactics they were using weren't working."

That changed Tuesday, when 16,000 officers were out on London's streets
step_back
08-13-2011, 05:47 AM
if you look past the barbarism, you can see what built up to it?

Their not standing for anything. This isn't about injustice or equal rights. These people just wanted to loot and cause mayhem. People on here have tried to justify their actions but really have no idea what is going on.
brantonli
08-13-2011, 07:25 PM
It seems like, even if the initial cause was anger at the government, other 'bandwagoners' just joined in because they know they have a chance of grabbing free stuff and causing chaos with no retribution.