London Riots!

[FlipMode]

[quote="Arani"]Whoa wait... what exactly is going on? I haven't heard anything about this.[/quote]

A criminal man in London got shot by the police and died, people protested against it, it turned into riots. And now other parts of the country are jumping on the riot bandwagon, for various reasons. Of course this gives criminals a perfect opportunity to blend in and do what the do best, arson, theft etc... in plain sight.

Like the thread title says, riots have been breaking out in London, I do not really know how it can be made much clearer than that lol.

[UncoordinatedPisces]

Well, good news. It did calm down last night but has anyone heard about the 3 men killed in Birmingham?! They were in a big group protected there homes from the rioters when a car sped into the group and sent 2 men flying and another terribly injured. I think all of them weren't even 25 yet.

[kumarileopard]

I was reading an article where one guy actually said the only reason he was doing it was to score free stuff and he wouldn't stop until he was caught. I can imagine that there is some anger driving it, but for the most part it's morons just wanting an excuse to get a PS3 for nothing.

[FlipMode]

Yeah pretty much, I dont suppose you might have seen a video doing the rounds of the internet where a group of lads were "helping" a guy up who had a broken jaw, and then stole stuff out of his bad and walked away? The item they took was actually a PSP, so yeah most of it is just pure crime, taking advantage of the situation.

Link to the video is here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gex_ya4-Oo
(slight language)
This video is actually linked to a news story today, Sony actually saw the video and sent the kid a new one with a ton of free games. (they sent it to the hospital he was staying in apparently, where it was then given to him).

[kumarileopard]

I saw this yesterday working around the internet

What's really stupid is the US Media is collectively having a freakout because they just realized it could happen here to.

Really?

They have somehow forgotten about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Cincinnati_riots

It started with roughly the same event: Young African American kid gets shot and killed by a white police officer. Come to find out he was unarmed (how a police officer is supposed to discern that chasing him down a dark alley is beyond me), protest outside police HQ turns into an all out riot. Shops looted, set on fire...you get the point. Only after a city-wide curfew and the Governor calling in the State Patrol did it calm down.

I live near Cincinnati, so this going down in my backyard was kind of freaky. For a while I made it a point to avoid Over-The-Rhine. In recent years though OTR has kind of been overtaken by young, hip professionals and creatives who have been opening art galleries, concert venues, and converting a lot of the nasty looking buildings into flats. It's a shell of it's former self. But the problems have moved to other areas (Price Hill is the neighborhood that sticks out in my mind).

<Rant>The problem is all in the mindset. They believe they've been wronged by society and that they are victims. Some of environment, some by their own sheer stupidity. But be that as it may, they now believe to take whatever they want, by any means necessary, to make up for the grievance that they have against whoever they have perceived have wronged them (police, government, etc.). I have family remembers who, while not turning over cars and lighting them on fire, are of this mindset that they are the victim and that society owes them one.</Rant>

[Arani]

[quote="FlipMode"][quote="Arani"]Whoa wait... what exactly is going on? I haven't heard anything about this.[/quote]

A criminal man in London got shot by the police and died, people protested against it, it turned into riots. And now other parts of the country are jumping on the riot bandwagon, for various reasons. Of course this gives criminals a perfect opportunity to blend in and do what the do best, arson, theft etc... in plain sight.

Like the thread title says, riots have been breaking out in London, I do not really know how it can be made much clearer than that lol.[/quote]

Well ya, I knew that there were riots. I just didn't know why, thx for explaining.

[Jiirani]

I really don't have any respect for humanity anymore. People are just plain greedy, selfish asses. Honestly, I don't understand how people could run out there and rip the lives of others apart for the fun of it.

[KopsTheTerminator]

And how is rioting going to solve their problems? >.> This happened here once, too. A young teenager teenager got shot and there were like over nine thousand riots about it. Students still refuse to come to school the day the kid got shot, it was that terrible =/

Seriously, they're honestly just looking for excuses to destroy everything without punishment. A kid got shot, so what? People die every day.

[Arani]

The whole world has turned to violence and other such things to solve their problems. I mean yes, things do get talked out and worked out, but srsly, if we could all just get along for once in our lives there wouldn't be so much bloodshed and theft and such. >_< In riots and wars.

These riots are no acception. Ya, criminal got shot. Criminals get shot all the time. They're criminals for god's sake!

[Jiirani]

Exactly, and thanks to these riots, more people are dying when they had their whole lives ahead of them. Some 11 year old girl was arrested for rioting too, and her parents are going to get in trouble for it [Rightfully so, they shouldn't have let her out to participate]

People are just horrible. I hope they get what's coming to them. Causing more problems isn't going to make the situation better, they do indeed just want to get in there for the hell of it because other people are...