What the Hell is Going on in London?

Ariadne

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If Duggan pulled a weapon on the officers, they are trained to shoot. I once asked why they were not trained to wound ... the answer was that they are trained to not take chances.

The riots today have nothing to do with that shooting.

The hooligans and thugs are as young as 9 or 10, and in general the thugs are not afraid of getting caught because they know nothing serious can be done.
 

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If Duggan pulled a weapon on the officers, they are trained to shoot. I once asked why they were not trained to wound ... the answer was that they are trained to not take chances.

The riots today have nothing to do with that shooting.

The hooligans and thugs are as young as 9 or 10, and in general the thugs are not afraid of getting caught because they know nothing serious can be done.

Exactly.....we know Duggan's weapon was not fired, and that the bullet in the radio came from an officer's gun because of the ensuing police investigation.........in Canada you commence shooting when you perceive an immediate threat to yourself or others of death or grievous bodily harm, you always shoot centre mass, and you don't stop shooting until the threat has ceased to exist.

This is NO reason for riot.

Scott Stinson: If the London rioters were protestors they wouldn’t look so happy | Full Comment | National Post
 

Ariadne

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Agreed ... if the guy was holding a gun or reaching for a gun, officers are trained to shoot. The bad guy was supposed to put his hands in the air. Of course, if the officer and a gangster are both going for a gun, the officer shot first ... that's his job.

The riots are nothing more than thugs in a gang of 1-300 people vandalizing and looting buildings, cars, homes and businesses and using social media to avoid the police and arrange the next vandalism.
 

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Nothing really surprising there, they can stir up that much sh*t over a cricket match or a soccer game! :smile:
 

Ariadne

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300 deaed minorities....sounds like they are trying to use self defense to reagain safety in their city.

300 dead? Is that in the last hour?

I heard 300+ detained, 70+ charged, 1 dead ... that police were going to be using rubber bullets if it continued overnight tonight.

Nothing really surprising there, they can stir up that much sh*t over a cricket match or a soccer game! :smile:

Or hockey in Canada.
 

petros

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300 dead? Is that in the last hour?

I heard 300+ detained, 70+ charged, 1 dead ... that police were going to be using rubber bullets if it continued overnight tonight.
Lack of proper leadership from the current conservative government, police rampant killing of over 300 minorities with impunity, and the injustice that allows these criminal cops to kill without any justice to the families of those victims.
 

Ariadne

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Lack of proper leadership from the current conservative government, police rampant killing of over 300 minorities with impunity, and the injustice that allows these criminal cops to kill without any justice to the families of those victims.

Have 300 of the rioters been killed?
 

Ariadne

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With the US taking the lead but, because they're broke, they'll coerce Canada and France to lead the attack. The 9 year olds can run the country and Lords can be looted.
 

petros

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With the US taking the lead but, because they're broke, they'll coerce Canada and France to lead the attack. The 9 year olds can run the country and Lords can be looted.
They alrready had a 9 year old running the place for 10 years but now Blair is gone.
 

Ariadne

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For some reason, poor people in London are aggressive towards the police and do not trust them. I would be afraid to be a police officer in and around London ... alone ... given the mob mentality these last four days.
 

Ariadne

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Law abiding citizens come in all different shapes and forms ... it seems. In fact, unless I'm completely mistaken, it seems that the children of new immigrants have difficulties assimilating ... partially because their parents don't learn the language or culture; assimilate ... like ... being thankful for the new world instead of trying to transplant that old world into our world. I wonder if this is because they had their early childhood in places like Beirut and Lebanon ... kinda like people damaged from early childrhood ... and those are the people that are throwing bricks through windows and setting London on Fire.

Maybe it's a step down to go from Military to city police.

Out of curiosity, who is looking after the children of refugees that settled in Canada?
Is it assumed that because the parents became citizens, the children are normal? How many of these children had an early childhood in war torn countries and who wouldn't think twice before hurling or ramming a shoulder through a shop window if there were enough buddies? Isn't that what some children have seen from early childhood? The assumption is that people from such disturbed backgrounds will get better in normal, healthy environments ... but perhaps because their homes are not normal Western healthy environments, they resort to what they know ... to force the western governments to deal with their rocks, sticks and fires.

Something is wrong with the youth in Britain ... given the wreckless disregard for society, what are they going to do next?

Kinda weird how it seems that this uprising came from poor new immigrants that couldn't think of a constructive way to say anything.
 
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