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215 Arrested in London Riots
2011-08-08
Moved to Non-WOT. Because while it's terrible, it isn't specifically jihad, as far as I can tell.

tw at 5:19 p.m. ET

Update based in comments below: moved back to WOT because of additional information in comments 4 and 6. Water Modem and phil_b, thank you for explaining,

tw at 19:51 p.m, ET
(yes, my head is spinning, too!)
Posted by:Water Modem

#25  Gang of vandals...

OK, you do a little sacking of Rome in 455 and no one lets you forget it.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-08-08 23:37  

#24  Sounds like the kind of a situation that calls for a streetsweeper.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2011-08-08 23:17  

#23  Yobbisheness. PIMF!
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-08-08 23:02  

#22  Photos in the various newspapers show white boys and girls as well as darker ones gathering up to gather up the loot -- ybbishness is a native as well as acquired behaviour. The Oakland Police have the right approach, and I suspect would apply it liberally to all deserving.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-08-08 22:58  

#21  
was there a hurricane?


Nah. They followed the Cincinnati model for generating an excuse to riot.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2011-08-08 22:54  

#20  The videos I've seen show a rainbow of thugs. It's like all the thugs in London decided to surge at once.

There's also some internecine fighting, via the Telegraph:

Bethnal Green: Gang of vandals broke the windows of an Islamic bank but were chased off by a rival gang Muslim youths who were standing guard outside the East London Mosque. Local shops attacked


Posted by: Rob Crawford   2011-08-08 22:46  

#19  was there a hurricane?
Posted by: chris   2011-08-08 22:35  

#18  A little consulting from the Oakland Police Department would go a long way in handling these dusky hued yobs. They are the industry standard in cracking heads.
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2011-08-08 22:31  

#17  Map of Riots
Posted by: Griting Smith6978   2011-08-08 22:30  

#16  
Posted by: Water Modem   2011-08-08 22:21  

#15  Told you.
Posted by: Enoch Powell   2011-08-08 22:05  

#14  Where are the London Trained Bands when you need them. Their seed in the New World, still stands.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-08-08 21:56  

#13  As I was saying...
Posted by: tu3031   2011-08-08 20:54  

#12  From the Telegraph,

There are reports now of "hundreds" of young turkish men chasing a group of young black men down nearby Kingsland Road, Hackney.

Agang of vandals broke the windows of an Islamic bank in Whitechapel but were chased off by a rival gang of 100 Muslim youths who are standing guard outside the East London Mosque.
Posted by: phil_b   2011-08-08 20:54  

#11  Cops with balls + rioters with fractured skulls = end of riots
Posted by: tu3031   2011-08-08 20:49  

#10  1/ Not Rioters. Organised Looting.

2/ Mainly Black Gangs.

3/ Some Somali.

4/ Not WOT.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-08-08 20:34  

#9  Deport and ban all foreign-born rioters. That'll give them some consequences to consider
Posted by: Frank G   2011-08-08 20:30  

#8  has now become black on Muslim

If they'd keep it that way it would almost call for popcorn.
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-08-08 19:58  

#7  As I understand it, the initial riots were 'in response' to British police killing some thug of Caribbean origin - did not get the impression he was Muslim, but since nobody actually reports stuff like that it's kind of hard to tell.
Regardless, that killing would just be an excuse, not a cause. The underlying cause is an intentional attempt at destabilization; whether by Muslims or Marxists or some perverse alliance of the two I do not know.
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-08-08 19:43  

#6  While the media is tying itself in knots trying to portray this as not racial, It was initially black rioters and has now become black on Muslim.
Posted by: phil_b   2011-08-08 19:39  

#5  The dirty Juice have always been enablers.... of stuff.
Posted by: S   2011-08-08 19:29  

#4  TW - according to an englishman who explained it to me: the rioters were in the main muslim, but the Guardian was trying to play the villains to be Jews explaining that they were videotaped giving the rioters food (not to attack them) so Jews were obviously in league with the rioters....
Posted by: Water Modem   2011-08-08 19:24  

#3  "A whiff of grapeshot" is unfortunately the only thing that will calm this down.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-08-08 17:27  

#2  Operable word is that the riots are "spreading", as the criminal class realize that the police are too afraid of them to do anything.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-08-08 17:07  

#1  Only in Euroland can rioters toss Molotov Coctails, and not take a bullet in the head.
Posted by: Phemble Lumplump2370   2011-08-08 16:42  

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