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Originally Posted by Osem
It can be both depending on your opinion but for the same people to claim that all this stuff is in some way a measure of support for Duggan at the same time as claiming the trouble's being done by outsiders is nonsense. We're always being told the police don't have a clue what's going on in these 'communities' yet it's apparent that those who speak for the community don't know either.
Was there genuine anger at the shopkeepers, bus drivers, firecrews too? What for? What have they done except trying to serve a 'community' which the 'spokespeople' claim is so deprived.  |
The term 'communities' encompasses a lot of people. However the community leaders are probably correct in claiming that that the riots are condemned by the vast majority of the people they represent. As you say a lot of innocent people have been badly affected by these riots. Homes, Businesses, and their livelihoods have all been cruelly stolen by a unthinking mob. So they do condemn it.
Tottenham is a deprived area, one of the poorest in London, and the riot in Tottenham had it's roots in the killing of Mark Duggan. It started off as a protest against his death and was then hijacked and turned into a riot, the exact reason it sparked into what it did has yet to be ascertained.
The spokespeople are right. The community deplore the rioting but they also have concerns about, amongst others, Duggan.