Personally I think we should avoid the armchair experts who think because other countries are more radical and violent we don't know what a riot is and go with the current legal definition ( In England anyway )
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In English Law Riot forms part of the Public Order Act 1986 under section 1.
The Public Order Act 1986 s.1 states:
1) Where twelve or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his personal safety, each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot.
2) It is immaterial whether or not the twelve or more use or threaten unlawful violence simultaneously.
3) The common purpose may be inferred from conduct.
4) No person of reasonable firmness need actually be, or be likely to be, present at the scene.
5) Riot may be committed in private as well as in public places.
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I'd say the scenes we have seen count as a riot so we can move on.
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Originally Posted by Sparkle
but yet someone else can be let off with community service for murder.
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except murder carries a mandatory life sentence...
