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Riots in Leeds

I heard that a child was thrown out of a window in Leeds s social services took away the other 5 children temporarily for their safely. . . the local community erupted.
If I am wrong please advise

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Seems about the size of it. Why do you ask?
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Original post by StriderHort
Seems about the size of it. Why do you ask?

To see if anyone has better info.
Reply 3
I think it's a protest about Gaza.
Reply 4
The jury is still out on Labour.
Extinction Rebellion people who seriously affected other people's lives protesting about what they believe in are going to jail.
The videos clearly show people without masks throwing stones at police vans and setting fire to vehicles or looting. If the law applies to all equally we should see prosecutions.
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This is going to come to London very soon; not as in spread, I mean the commence of it's own riots. Why won't the BBC and Sky news report this? Forget a 2 minute 11 second clip from sky news briefly going over it and then ducking out to report about trump; what on earth is actually going on in this country? I'm nigerian btw, parents came to this country legally in '04 for a better living, we work hard, nhs and civil service they work in, I just finished a levels. I don't understand why the corporate media won't report this, there ought to be some sort of agenda behind it icl. to make us feel that everything is alright. well I'll tell you what; if it was 10% of that crowd a bunch of football hooligans or nationalists just muckin about helicopters and n armoured police cars would've come out by now. It's funny how I have to watch mahyar tousi for this. I don't even care about politics anymore whether it's to do with that; this country needs more than that this country needs to seriously find God. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. Even if you don't believe in God and are secular or whatever the point is that we need to stand for the values and virtues that this country was built on. It makes my blood boil seeing these silly yutes who think they're on some kind of badness wave around phones video recording what's going on, laughing at the police.
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A bunch of scruffs smashing things up because social services were trying to help a kid or kids.

Thankfully it was confined a a couple of streets and all the locals filming it with their high resolution phone cameras is going to make it easy for the police to identify the perpetrators.
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The jury is still out on Labour.
Extinction Rebellion people who seriously affected other people's lives protesting about what they believe in are going to jail.
The videos clearly show people without masks throwing stones at police vans and setting fire to vehicles or looting. If the law applies to all equally we should see prosecutions.


What does Labour has to do with this?
Original post by JVorJrose
This is going to come to London very soon; not as in spread, I mean the commence of it's own riots. Why won't the BBC and Sky news report this? Forget a 2 minute 11 second clip from sky news briefly going over it and then ducking out to report about trump; what on earth is actually going on in this country?


There was an incident which resulted in localised disorder, which has then been dealt with. It's also been reported by the BBC, Sky and others. Of course they haven't suggested that it's going to spread because there's no reason at all that it's coming to London or indeed anywhere else. The whole "what is happening to this country?" narrative when it comes to crime is a well used trope of right wing politics, but the reality is that violent crime has been steadily decreasing for a long time now. So in reality, the rest of your rant is just entirely misplaced. The country is fine, from the perspective of violent crime at least. There are problem when it comes to the funding and functioning of public services, the operation of which is also consistent with religious values. So I'd perhaps suggest a focus on that going forwards.
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Original post by Crazy Jamie
There was an incident which resulted in localised disorder, which has then been dealt with. It's also been reported by the BBC, Sky and others. Of course they haven't suggested that it's going to spread because there's no reason at all that it's coming to London or indeed anywhere else. The whole "what is happening to this country?" narrative when it comes to crime is a well used trope of right wing politics, but the reality is that violent crime has been steadily decreasing for a long time now. So in reality, the rest of your rant is just entirely misplaced. The country is fine, from the perspective of violent crime at least. There are problem when it comes to the funding and functioning of public services, the operation of which is also consistent with religious values. So I'd perhaps suggest a focus on that going forwards.

My beloved I sincerely want to believe you on that one that the country is fine but, I just don't know. It's not about violent crime per se; you can be right on violent crime and probably are (knife crime is still prominent though), but it might not be that that I'm getting at, I don't think. I don't care for the politics; I appreciate that it may sound like a right wing rhetoric yeah I hear that but, what I'm saying but there is something happening which, one can only really see through for themself I'm not trying to cause controversy or anything but it's about the riot in particular. It's calm though, hopefully you're right man but yeah we can only tell so much about the future though so we'll just hafa wait n see still
Original post by JVorJrose
My beloved I sincerely want to believe you on that one that the country is fine but, I just don't know. It's not about violent crime per se; you can be right on violent crime and probably are (knife crime is still prominent though), but it might not be that that I'm getting at, I don't think. I don't care for the politics; I appreciate that it may sound like a right wing rhetoric yeah I hear that but, what I'm saying but there is something happening which, one can only really see through for themself I'm not trying to cause controversy or anything but it's about the riot in particular. It's calm though, hopefully you're right man but yeah we can only tell so much about the future though so we'll just hafa wait n see still

We don’t know what you are getting at because you are being vague and rambling.
"Why isn't the mainstream media reporting on these bad vibes I'm getting?"
Tbh police cars and busses get burned out in far larger numbers and disturbances eg Ireland and have done for decades. You need to do more than 2 vehicles/no injuries to really capture the national interest for longer than a few mins.
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Original post by Gazpacho.
What does Labour has to do with this?

They, as the Government decide or at least influence what the laws are and the vigour with which they are implemented
They, as the Government decide or at least influence what the laws are and the vigour with which they are implemented

Labour have been in power for a couple of weeks.

Any policy failings related to the police, the probation services, the courts, immigration policy, or local government cuts that you feel have contributed to this likely isolated incident is entirely down to the Conservative government and those who voted for them.
Original post by Gazpacho.
What does Labour has to do with this?

If yk, yk. but tbh, about what you said in response to my other post I dare not go any further because loose lips sink ships, don't want to upset or offend anyone unintentionally,.
Original post by Admit-One
"Why isn't the mainstream media reporting on these bad vibes I'm getting?"

Could be worse. We've had users ask "Why aren't the mainstream media reporting this?" after posting articles from... mainstream media. 🤦*♀️
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Original post by Gazpacho.
Labour have been in power for a couple of weeks.
Any policy failings related to the police, the probation services, the courts, immigration policy, or local government cuts that you feel have contributed to this likely isolated incident is entirely down to the Conservative government and those who voted for them.

I agree! That's why I say the jury is out. I hope that Labour will do what it can to correct anything the Tories did the contribute to last night's rioting.
Shameful. Absolutely shameful.

Even had the audacity to complain that the local government was at fault for not investing in the area, while said group of people were burning the area to the ground.
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Original post by imlikeahermit
Shameful. Absolutely shameful.
Even had the audacity to complain that the local government was at fault for not investing in the area, while said group of people were burning the area to the ground.

The videos I saw (on TousiTv who seemed to get there first by a long way) they were not targeting the local buildings, most of the energy was aimed at stoning police and their vans, which would explain why the police withdrew and left the locals to manage the situation, which they seemed to, i.e. the police were the main target not local infrastructure.

Can anyone explain why they were doing this?
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