The footage showed riot police already on the streets so they are on standby probably in all the major cities just in case. The problem is the police haven't been doing much to stop it because they are too vastly outnumbered and spred to far apart.

Birmingham, Bristol (I think), Liverpool as well as London.

I think other places aren't anywhere near as bad as London. I would imagine that every major city has a lot of riot police on standby.

As much as you English may mistrust the army, you may have no choice but to send them in.

I guess the unfortunate thing we're seeing here is, social media can be used for great good, as in the Arab Spring, but it can also be used for great evil. So it's obvious the great villain here is Mark Zuckerberg!!!!

Thankfully. The police are saying they are deploying 1700 more officers in London.

Link please? I can't find anything about this on the BBC news website and I'm hesitant to believe riots have broken out in Bristol, what excuse could they possibly have to riot? The riots in London are supposedly a response to the attitude of the police in that area of London and I haven't known of anything like that in Bristol.

Let's hope it doesn't spread any further, Portsmouth is about 80% working class so I'd hate to see what'd happen.

Twitter, other online places. Search twitter for Bristol or #ukriots

The BBC seems to be quite behind, although Al Jazeera seems to have good coverage (although it is not covering it any more).

I can see any trouble getting crushed in other cities. I would assume they will by now have a lot of riot police on standby.

*high fives*


How dare the police treat criminals like *gasp* criminals.

Fire rubber bullets into the crowd, if folks get hurt or die as a result its thier own damn fault.
http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx236/FutureJarhead16/1312843903577.jpg (not mine, found it elsewhere)

Are the police pulling out the cavalry charges? They seemed to work pretty well on the students :goodjob:

Yeah. I totally agree. For example [censored] the people at Bloody Sunday. They had it coming, including the ones shot in the back. Idiots shouldn't have been there.

<_<


In other words, do you really think it would help. An incident like several people getting killed would make things really grim.

Manchester now has reported looting :brokencomputer:


I wouldn't you would most likely get arrested instead

Its rubber bullets. It likely wont kill you, if you do get killed as a result oh well. Some people died becuase of tazers, should we ban the police using them too ?

Yes it would, if those people keep burning and looting, shoot them again, eventually they will leave or be unable to keep burning/looting. If a person burning innocent peoples cars and businesses down dies, I wont give a [censored], I know other people who wouldnt. But hey lets just ignore them, they are delicate flowers, so we shouldnt punosh/harm them for acting like savages, no let them keep burning things. They wil lrun out of things to burn eventually right.


I just hope it stays in England. Luckily I live in a community with mostly old people. But if someone tried to burn my house, I would beat the [censored] out of them. [censored] degenerates.

Yes. Probably. There is no such thing as a non lethal weapon. A rubber bulled in the head kills you just as well as a real one.


No.

The police would be shooting innocent people. Which is bad.

I don't know about other countries, but we have this idea that someone is innocent until they are proven guilty by a court. This generally means that the police can't go around shooting random people. It is useful because when they do this sort of thing seems to happen.

There had better be retribution. I suggest we find a large uninhabited island where we can just dump all involved individuals, preferably a cold island with little shelter and ravenous wildlife. Then they can just fight each other until they wipe themselves out. I have very little patience for people who leap at the opportunity to cause destruction for their own twisted pleasure and for a few looted televisions.

Considering how this started when some [censored] got shot, doing it again seems like a bad idea.

Sad, but true. Exactly how these people are acting. :yuck:

I think you might be missing a point - if you look at the footage and read the reports of these riots, there are lots of bystanders unfortunate enough to be caught up in all of this. Firing off rubber bullets into such a crowd would be very dangerous to those not involved.

Anything can kill, I dont care, fire kills. Thos epeople keep lighting them. So either they stop burning or the police start shooting.

Innocent until proven otherwise, we can see them llighting fires, throwing rocks and looting. Hmmm we need more evidence, becuase clearly seeing them isnt enough.


We shot binladen. Some people bithced swore revenge. We will just end up killing them too. And those inspired by them. And so on. If they wont stop you make them stop.


Hard not to se when its all the news is on about. All I see is vandalism, arson and people acting like thugs. But like I said, I dont care.

No we didn't. Some members of the US Special Forces did, and personally joining the army is the last thing I'll be doing. Either way, shooting into crowds of people, irrespective of whether they were rioting or not is never the best of ideas.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I take it things started out as a peaceful protest and then escalated into violence along with tons of people joining in for the hell of it? What exactly sparked things to go from the peaceful protest to the stuff going on now?

Rioting has now spread to Bristol, apparently.

I meant the west, when I said we. Ok the US killed binladen. But several other countries (including the US and UK) are going to kill those who are inspired by him.


Better option ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14452496
I'm going to leave the link up but its actually not that informative. Basically a gentleman of less than reputable standing supposedly shot at a policeman who then shot back and killed him. Some people don't like how the police handled things afterwards, they didn't talk to the family of the deceased and did some other things that I haven't read about in detail. People then held a peaceful protest to show their displeasure as a result of the Police's conduct. My guess is some thugs then saw this as a great excuse to get violent.

I hope not.

It's terrible, my condolences to anyone on the forums who's families have lost members, livelihoods, homes, or have been injured because of the barbaric actions of others. Demonstrations are one thing, but throwing bricks, burning buildings,assualting each other, attacking firemen and policemen, and taking advantage of the situation to loot and pillage is disgraceful.
People were warned to stay inside multiple times. When it gets to the point that police cannot control the mayhem, and constituents are made prisoners in their own home by bands of lawless thugs, it is time to bring the armed forces in with tear gas, water cannons, and whatever other non lethal means the British find acceptable.
Here in the US, if martial law is established and you violate it, you run a seriously high risk of being shot.
Many insurers will not cover loss of habitiat or property due to civil disobedience or rioting here, I don't know how it goes in the UK.

shooting the rioters will just cause more problems, innocent people are there too, if you get caught between the police and the riots, and got shoot, guess who will be the responsible?

If they evacuate all the people not involved in the riots, then yeah, killing spree, but if not, no thanks, just digging up more deeper from both sides