London Riots continue

[Canadamus Prime]

The riots are ridiculous - they started because a police officer was doing his job. The guy shot at them, so they shot back! So they bloody well should!

And even if the cop was in the wrong, is that any reason for damaging the homes, property, and lives of hundreds of people who weren't even fucking involved???

I think they need to get out some sort of knock out gas and blanket the whole fucking area with it. So a few innocent bystanders are caught in there too? All it'll do is put 'em to sleep.

 

[Wintermoot]

that says some things about the UK police.
also is it that hard to chuck some teargas grenades into a crowd?
also I,m siding with the police here the officer was doing his job and accidents do happen.

 

[orangeban]

I'm just going to post my support for the police.

That is my career of choice and I (possibly naively) have (almost) absolute faith in them to do their abilities with professional standards and to the best of their ability.

Good luck to all the officers out there trying to keep the peace!

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As someone whos been in,witnessed and lived through quite a few riots ,the English police force are woefully crap at controlling them and even then that was a pretty mild riot by Northern Irelands standards.

There using tiny circular shields and only charge in groups of 3 not to mention they looked generally pretty damn terrified of the situation as evident in the fact they couldnt stop wide spread arson and looting. Im pretty sure they had to blow the dust of their riot equipment in some instances(you cant really count the student protests as proper riots when your cracking the heads in of a few students throwing bottles etc. and not bricks)

Though I do like to see a good riot lets those in power know that they cant just do whatever and not have some form of reprocussions.

Their has been some talk of foul play happening in the shooting of the armed persom though no one can say for sure at this stage such as did the police exacerbate said incident etc.

Can you blame them for looking terrified? I mean, there British cops, they prepare for knife crime and vandalism, not widespread riots.

 

[JonnyC]

i don't condone the violence, but it seems from a lot of reports that the man may or may not have been armed as they did find a weapon nearby. However, there is no evidence to it having been fired. The bullet that hit a police officer was a police issue H&K round that could be attributed to ricochet. Also; eyewitnesses claim that it was police who opened fire first, some even claim he was pinned to the ground at the time.
obviously i don't know what happened exactly, and the report is not out yet, but according to the sources, his death was effectively an execution. Again, if evidence presents itself to the contradictory, i will change my opinion but it seems that his death was not merited.

One more thing, from preliminary reports, it seems that the original demonstrators were not the ones who started the riots, but opportunists who set fire to police cars that were there for public safety during the protests. I have to put some blame on the media for reporting non-factual evidence either to generate ratings or to downplay the racial and socioeconomic tensions in Britain right now.
Sorry for the long post, i had a lot to say.

 

[Duskwaith]

I'm just going to post my support for the police.

That is my career of choice and I (possibly naively) have (almost) absolute faith in them to do their abilities with professional standards and to the best of their ability.

Good luck to all the officers out there trying to keep the peace!

]

As someone whos been in,witnessed and lived through quite a few riots ,the English police force are woefully crap at controlling them and even then that was a pretty mild riot by Northern Irelands standards.

There using tiny circular shields and only charge in groups of 3 not to mention they looked generally pretty damn terrified of the situation as evident in the fact they couldnt stop wide spread arson and looting. Im pretty sure they had to blow the dust of their riot equipment in some instances(you cant really count the student protests as proper riots when your cracking the heads in of a few students throwing bottles etc. and not bricks)

Though I do like to see a good riot lets those in power know that they cant just do whatever and not have some form of reprocussions.

Their has been some talk of foul play happening in the shooting of the armed persom though no one can say for sure at this stage such as did the police exacerbate said incident etc.

Can you blame them for looking terrified? I mean, there British cops, they prepare for knife crime and vandalism, not widespread riots.

There also trained for counter-terrorism so unless they have decided the middle ground was that umimportant that they feel it necessary to not properly train for their jobs then thats a pretty big problem when your job is to "protect the community".

They even had(squeaky clean) riot vechiles, those that werent lent by the PSNI/RUC, they also had rubber bullets aswell. Its just a mix of laziness and generally retardedness