The Forgotten Riots that Almost Destroyed London

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Resumen

TLDRThe video examines the 2011 London riots, which erupted following the police shooting of Mark Duggan. It details the initial peaceful protests that escalated into widespread violence and looting across London and other cities. The narrative highlights the role of misinformation, social tensions, and technology in fueling the riots. The aftermath saw significant property damage, loss of life, and harsh legal repercussions for those involved. The video also reflects on the societal issues that contributed to the unrest, including economic inequality and racial profiling, and critiques the media's portrayal of the events and individuals involved.

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  • 🚨 The 2011 London riots were sparked by the police shooting of Mark Duggan.
  • 📱 Technology played a crucial role in spreading information and organizing riots.
  • 📰 Media portrayal of Mark Duggan influenced public perception and unrest.
  • 💔 The riots resulted in five deaths and significant property damage.
  • ⚖️ Harsh penalties were imposed on rioters, with many receiving lengthy sentences.
  • 🏙️ The riots highlighted deep social and economic inequalities in Britain.
  • 🤝 Community tensions escalated due to poor police communication.
  • 🔍 The aftermath prompted discussions on race, class, and policing in the UK.
  • 📉 High unemployment and social cuts contributed to the unrest.
  • 🗣️ The need for better community-police relations was emphasized.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The video discusses the 2011 England riots, highlighting the social tensions that led to widespread looting and violence. It begins with a description of the chaos and the initial police shooting of Mark Duggan, which sparked the unrest. The narrative emphasizes the community's confusion and anger over the police's portrayal of Duggan as a gangster, contrasting it with local perceptions of him as a misunderstood individual.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    As the riots escalated, the video details how a peaceful protest turned violent, fueled by rumors of police brutality against a young girl. The role of social media, particularly BBM, is examined as a catalyst for spreading information and organizing looting, showcasing how technology influenced the riots' dynamics.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    The video highlights significant events during the riots, including the destruction of historical buildings and the symbolic impact of burning a London bus. It reflects on the media's portrayal of the rioters as a nihilistic youth culture, while also addressing the underlying social issues that contributed to the unrest, such as economic inequality and racial profiling.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    The narrative shifts to the government's response, detailing the deployment of thousands of police officers to restore order. It discusses the aftermath of the riots, including the harsh punishments meted out to participants and the broader societal implications of the events, emphasizing the need for understanding the root causes of such unrest.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:27:51

    Finally, the video concludes with a reflection on the systemic issues that led to the riots, urging society to confront the underlying problems rather than dismissing the rioters as mere criminals. It calls for a deeper understanding of the socio-economic factors at play, suggesting that without addressing these issues, similar unrest could occur in the future.

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  • What triggered the 2011 London riots?

    The riots were triggered by the police shooting of Mark Duggan, which led to community outrage and protests.

  • How did technology influence the riots?

    Technology, particularly BBM messaging, allowed rioters to communicate and organize quickly, spreading the unrest.

  • What was the public's reaction to the riots?

    The public reaction was largely one of disgust, viewing the rioters as a nihilistic youth engaging in senseless violence.

  • What were the consequences of the riots?

    The riots resulted in five deaths, extensive property damage, and over 2,000 convictions with harsh sentences for many.

  • How did the media portray Mark Duggan?

    The media portrayed Mark Duggan as a gangster, which shaped public perception and contributed to the unrest.

  • What were some underlying causes of the riots?

    Underlying causes included social and economic inequality, high unemployment, and racial profiling.

  • What was the outcome of the police investigation into Duggan's death?

    The police investigation concluded that Duggan's death was lawful, but there were significant criticisms of the police's handling of the situation.

  • How did the government respond to the riots?

    The government deployed 16,000 police officers to restore order and implemented harsh penalties for those involved in the riots.

  • What was the impact of the riots on British society?

    The riots highlighted deep-seated social issues and inequalities within British society, prompting discussions about race, class, and policing.

  • What lessons were learned from the riots?

    The riots underscored the need for better communication between police and communities, as well as addressing the root causes of social unrest.

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    this video is brought to you by
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    Squarespace these are sickening
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    scenes scenes of people
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    looting
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    vandalizing
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    thieving robbing and it has to be
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    confronted and defeated for 5 days
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    straight in the summer of 2011 England
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    turned into the purge innocent people
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    are getting hurt we all live in the same
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    Community why we have to kill one
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    another that's our five generations
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    1867 burnt a this was an insane time to
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    live through where social tensions had
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    bubbled up to such a point that it would
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    result in the biggest riots in modern
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    British history and it has spread for 3
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    Days running London's burning and no one
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    seems able to bring it under control the
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    violence what happens when you kill
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    people on the 4th of August 2011 at
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    88:18 p.m. the telegraph posted one of
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    the earliest reports of an incident and
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    in the article the very first sentence
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    reads is this a policeman's life was
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    saved by his radio last night after
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    gunman Mark Dugen opened fire on him and
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    the bullet hit the device so this was
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    one of the first reportings where the
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    information had come from the police
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    force and the police sources also said
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    that Mark dougen who was now dead was a
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    well-known gangster who had been under
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    surveillance by officers the man
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    29-year-old Mark Dugen was cornered
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    following a surveillance operation
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    According to some witnesses he refused
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    to give himself up it seems he shot a
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    policeman before he himself was gunned
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    down the information that you are
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    hearing at the time was being presented
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    as fact however the truth is the
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    situation was still being investigated
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    they didn't know that this is what had
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    happened this is just what the police
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    decided to tell everyone but it is
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    important over the coming hours and days
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    I think to allay people's fears and to
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    ensure that rumors don't start up
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    unnecessarily despite the MP's warning
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    rumors very quickly started to circulate
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    about the
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    scenario Marx georan don't know that
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    he's gone we can't tell them yet because
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    they're going to be asking questions we
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    don't have the answers to it so just to
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    put you in the shoes of the local
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    community imagine this is a tight-knit
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    community they all know each other
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    they've grown up with Mark they know
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    what he's like and they were a bit
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    dubious about the story that the police
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    were telling him they're portraying Mark
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    to be a gangster Mark is not a gangster
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    he's not known to any gangster is or any
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    gangs he's not like that mainly cuz the
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    police weren't really communicating very
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    clearly with them about exactly what had
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    happened and you were having bystanders
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    and Witnesses in the local Town saying
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    conflicting things some people saying
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    that he was shot whilst he was on the
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    floor some saying that he had a gun in
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    his hand some saying he didn't have a
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    gun some people saying that he shot at
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    the police officer and other people
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    saying that he tried to run away if he
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    did have a gun which I don't know if he
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    did Mark would run Mark is a runner he
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    would run rather than firing
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    understandably you would hope that the
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    police would sit you down and say this
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    is what happened but they didn't do that
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    they want an answers from the police in
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    terms of what happened to Mark D and one
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    of the other concerns is they wanted a
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    small senior officer to actually convey
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    those messages to them two days after
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    the shooting 300 people from the local
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    community gather outside of Tottenham
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    police station and have a peaceful
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    protest this is confirmed it was
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    peaceful they were just there trying to
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    ask for a senior police officer to come
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    speak to them and explain the scenario
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    but the senior officer wasn't available
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    to
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    talk 8:00 p.m. [ __ ] absolutely hits the
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    fan bottles missiles [ __ ] leftover
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    food was being thrown at the police
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    officers police cars were now being set
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    on fire and so this is where the rest of
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    the UK hear about what's going on and it
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    was pretty [ __ ] mental one of the
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    things even all these years later that's
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    very hard to pinpoint is the exact
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    moment it went from a peaceful protest
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    into a full scale right there was this
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    video that was posted on the 7th of
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    August where we can hear an old lady an
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    older lady of the community shouting
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    it's a
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    girl it's a girl it's a girl look how
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    he's dealing with her and very quickly
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    there was this initial rumor that was
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    spread that the police had attacked a
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    16-year-old girl who was peacefully
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    protesting so again just imagine the
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    mood of the community where now they
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    think a 16-year-old girl was being
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    beaten by the police they're already
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    pissed off and that's just made their
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    day a little bit worse however this
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    claim is at best a little bit wobbly no
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    individual no Witnesses no one has ever
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    come forward to the police and said I am
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    the 16-year- old girl or this was the
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    16-year- old go who was attacked by the
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    police this alleged woman was never
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    identified but on top of that the fact
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    of the matter is that the first police
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    car that was set on fire was reported to
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    have happened at 8:30 now bear in mind
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    this took place in August this is
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    British summer time therefore 8:30 would
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    still have daylight it would be light
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    but in the video we can see that this is
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    at night time so you know it just it
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    didn't add up but that did not matter
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    because we're in a new era now this is
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    2011 you got the internet you know
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    information travels fast you don't need
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    to send out a pigeon to the neighboring
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    Town anymore you could just film
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    something on your phone camera and
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    upload it very quickly to Twitter and
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    this touches on a wider part as to why
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    these riots got out of hand in the first
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    place and there was one very important
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    piece of technology that was the main
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    accelerator of the London RS that
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    allowed rumors and different stories to
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    spread in a matter of
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    seconds I'm
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    onry bearing in mind that blackberries
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    were designed for like you know your
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    corporate business boys but for some
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    reason 15-year-old boys outside of a
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    McDonald's also needed a blackbery what
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    it was was that blackb had a thing
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    called BBM BBM messenger sending a
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    message on your phone back then used to
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    cost like 10p a message so if a heated
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    banter exchanges popping off with the
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    boys in the group chat that might run
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    you a ten but on top of all that it was
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    encrypted meaning riers on the move are
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    able to pick up messages about planned
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    looting and police movements without law
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    enforcers knowing it and BBM had another
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    feature that was very important in the
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    London rights and that was the ability
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    to send out broadcasts AKA pings this is
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    where you could broadcast a message to
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    everyone in your contact list and so the
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    people who had started rioting in
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    Tottenham took to BBM and started
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    broadcasting what was going on and where
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    it was going on the guardian reports
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    some of the BBM messages some of the
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    broadcasts that they were able to get a
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    hold of stuff like this [ __ ] the F here
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    bring your B and your bags trolleys cars
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    Vans hammers the lot apparently over BBM
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    people were were broadcasting the sale
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    of5 Riot kits we got gloves mask petrol
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    boms £5 a lot I don't want to say it but
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    10:45 violence was growing on the first
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    night of these riots and now the fires
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    was starting to spread these two FES I'm
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    about to mention are very important in
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    terms of like symbolism and how they
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    were viewed in the media firstly you had
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    the old carpet shop it was built in the
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    1930s and it was a listed building
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    that's because it's old and it was
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    important half of the reason being that
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    it survived the Blitz in local history
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    this building came to represent
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    resilience and so when this was burnt
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    down by these young riers when the rest
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    of Britain saw this in the television in
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    the media it was felt as a deep
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    disrespect against British Heritage
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    secondly you have the London bus to me
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    this photo is one of the most powerful
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    images from the London riots when people
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    picture a London bus you expect to see
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    old dukee dickon the third jumping off
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    and tipping his top out to the driver
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    you don't expect to see it on fire with
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    a group of balled up chavs in front of
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    it as this image got broadcast around
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    the world it showed a very different
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    Britain that doesn't get a lot of
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    publicity this is the side of Britain
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    that we often keep a big secret we sweep
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    it all away in poor underdeveloped under
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    funded under supported communities and
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    we just hope that they don't complain
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    too much however now they had a voice
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    and the whole world was
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    listening the chav we have to remember
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    this took place in 2011 this was like
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    the height of the chav era I made a
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    whole entire video on chav culture which
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    I can link below but effectively what it
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    was was an underclass of people like our
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    boy crazy Steves so that we don't forget
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    about this important character in
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    British Society I made crazy Steves you
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    sporty tracksuit the chabs and later
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    Road man Road culture was really this
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    underclass that Society really pushed to
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    the side and absolutely hated I'm just
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    doing M bre is Pete these men don't
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    represents like the underclass of this
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    era that were always blamed and always
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    had fingers pointed them for everything
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    no one really thought to wonder why
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    people were living in these situations
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    acting the way they did they just
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    assumed that they were bad people and it
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    was like a cultural problem and so very
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    quickly in the news these riots were
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    being reported in a very specific way
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    these people were being represented as
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    just a nihilistic rebellious youth who
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    would take part in senseless criminality
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    and were just burning their communities
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    to the ground for no other reason than
  • 00:10:30
    that they were bored and so as the first
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    night of these riots Drew to a close the
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    entire country's attitude towards the
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    riers was that of disgust a very bad
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    night um you know I'm devastated really
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    to she um uh a place that I grew up in
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    and love Tottenham Harring you know um
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    looking like a a battlefield the next
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    morning the nation woke up in shock we
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    were now getting reports of the
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    aftermath of the riots in buildings had
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    been burnt to the ground 26 policemen
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    were injured 55 arrests were made cars
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    were set on fire and shops were being
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    looted however it was over you know we
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    took a sigh of relief the rioter the
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    police the rest of the country held
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    hands and all came back together it was
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    all over if you enjoyed this video be
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    sure to join the disy by 6:28 p.m. a
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    little north of Tottenham where it all
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    started now in Enfield there were
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    reports that shops had been smashed in
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    and a police vehicle had been damaged
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    but then something very weird happened
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    minutes later reports that on the south
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    side of London like quite far away from
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    Tottenham and Enfield all the way over
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    in Brixton a separate Riot had started
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    and then a few hours later at 10:30
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    reports that a mob of 50 people had
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    arrived in Oxford Circus in London's
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    West End now it was getting serious
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    people were worried these copycat riots
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    were popping up in various parts of
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    London and all the while that that was
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    happening a very important piece of news
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    was reported by the guardian Channel 4
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    News has learned that the bullet that
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    killed Mark Dugen and the bullet that
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    lodged in an officer's radio were both
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    fired by police now you see this bit of
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    news was a bit of a problem if we go
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    back to the first reportings after Mark
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    dgen was killed it was sort of implied
  • 00:12:17
    that he shot some police officers and
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    that he was a gangster and this
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    certainly shaped The Wider public's
  • 00:12:24
    opinion on both Mark dougen and the
  • 00:12:27
    rioter but when it turned out that the
  • 00:12:28
    police officer was the person who shot
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    the other police officer and Mark Dugen
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    hadn't shot anyone things became a
  • 00:12:34
    little bit awkward between what happened
  • 00:12:37
    in Tottenham and what happened in cayen
  • 00:12:38
    there is no connection what they did was
  • 00:12:41
    pure greed that's what made me angry
  • 00:12:44
    like people are like animals like the
  • 00:12:47
    real animals within people's show that
  • 00:12:49
    night now it's the 8th of August the
  • 00:12:51
    riots are still going on but now a lot
  • 00:12:53
    bigger the police are completely losing
  • 00:12:55
    control of London they were leaving
  • 00:12:57
    large areas of London unprotected the
  • 00:13:00
    writers just had free Reign Over the
  • 00:13:01
    shops they were looting everything
  • 00:13:03
    locals were understandably terrified
  • 00:13:06
    this photo became the core image of what
  • 00:13:09
    was happening in London and it spread
  • 00:13:12
    around the world and now riots were
  • 00:13:14
    popping up all around London Enfield
  • 00:13:16
    Brixton wolam Stow Hackney pekham leam
  • 00:13:20
    Cen Clapham eing and then somehow
  • 00:13:23
    something even crazier happened to
  • 00:13:25
    Britain where violence and looting that
  • 00:13:27
    started in one London neighborhood over
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    the weekend spread to three other cities
  • 00:13:31
    last night it is Britain's worst rioting
  • 00:13:33
    in 25 years 128 Mi north of London lies
  • 00:13:38
    a town called Nottingham completely
  • 00:13:40
    separate to London no connection here
  • 00:13:42
    Mark Dugen didn't have extended family
  • 00:13:44
    up there as far as I'm aware now riots
  • 00:13:47
    were popping up there the police station
  • 00:13:49
    has been petrol bombed and dozens of
  • 00:13:51
    homes shops and cars were attacked as
  • 00:13:54
    youths went on the Rampage in Nottingham
  • 00:13:56
    early this morning just got out of hand
  • 00:13:59
    but it's gone way past it's not
  • 00:14:01
    connected to this anymore we're not
  • 00:14:04
    condoling any kind of actions like that
  • 00:14:06
    at all to be shown or or for this to be
  • 00:14:09
    taken in my brother's name on the same
  • 00:14:12
    day in just beautifully perverted irony
  • 00:14:15
    the politicians of Great Britain were
  • 00:14:17
    having a nice summer break the PM of the
  • 00:14:19
    time David Cameron as well as Boris
  • 00:14:21
    Johnson who was the mayor of London at
  • 00:14:23
    the time and then Ed Miland who was the
  • 00:14:25
    leader of Labor they had to get out of
  • 00:14:26
    the sun lounger hop on a plane and cut
  • 00:14:28
    their holiday
  • 00:14:32
    short this was the scene in Birmingham
  • 00:14:34
    tonight as the violence spread outside
  • 00:14:36
    the capital for the first time since the
  • 00:14:38
    trouble erupted on Saturday but then it
  • 00:14:40
    gets worse Liverpool Manchester West
  • 00:14:43
    bromage Wolverhampton Bristol all of
  • 00:14:46
    these towns all around England were now
  • 00:14:48
    reporting that they had experienced
  • 00:14:50
    rioting and the police were failing the
  • 00:14:52
    local people had to go out and defend
  • 00:14:55
    their communities fight off the the
  • 00:14:57
    rioters cuz people people that just
  • 00:14:59
    waiting they they protected themselves
  • 00:15:02
    you know because they can't do nothing
  • 00:15:04
    police they can't do nothing I remember
  • 00:15:06
    just this like palpable fear across
  • 00:15:09
    England at the time it was it's Vivid I
  • 00:15:12
    I can recall it the fear was that your
  • 00:15:14
    town might be next I lived near Luton at
  • 00:15:17
    the time so just imagine how I felt
  • 00:15:19
    there was a part of me that was thinking
  • 00:15:21
    you know maybe a few fires and some of
  • 00:15:22
    the ugly buildings might might actually
  • 00:15:24
    do the place a bit of good but genuinely
  • 00:15:26
    for this week in England it felt like
  • 00:15:29
    our country was about to collapse but
  • 00:15:31
    then reports of deaths started to occur
  • 00:15:35
    let's get back to those events in
  • 00:15:36
    Birmingham three men died after being
  • 00:15:38
    hit by a car believed to have been
  • 00:15:39
    protecting premises during this night of
  • 00:15:42
    violence and looting in Birmingham a man
  • 00:15:44
    by the name of Tariq Jan whose son and
  • 00:15:47
    his friends died whilst trying to defend
  • 00:15:49
    their own Community from rioters he went
  • 00:15:52
    on the news and talked against the riots
  • 00:15:55
    but he he did something very important
  • 00:15:58
    instead of calling for Revenge he asked
  • 00:16:00
    people to calm down and go home we all
  • 00:16:03
    live in the same Community why we have
  • 00:16:05
    to kill one another what started these
  • 00:16:07
    riots and what's escalating why are we
  • 00:16:09
    doing this honestly this video is
  • 00:16:11
    heartbreaking and I don't want to go
  • 00:16:12
    into too many of the stories of all the
  • 00:16:14
    people that died cuz is sad for sure and
  • 00:16:16
    in the video of Tariq you can see him
  • 00:16:19
    arguing as an elder of his own Community
  • 00:16:21
    against some of the young Lads in his
  • 00:16:23
    own Community who were probably outright
  • 00:16:25
    in the night before morning my son and
  • 00:16:28
    you up again
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    [Music]
  • 00:16:38
    up what we have seen on The Streets of
  • 00:16:41
    London and in other cities across our
  • 00:16:43
    country is completely unacceptable it is
  • 00:16:46
    criminality pure and simple and there is
  • 00:16:49
    absolutely no excuse for it we need to
  • 00:16:51
    show the world which has looked on
  • 00:16:52
    frankly appalled that the perpetrators
  • 00:16:55
    of the violence we've seen on our
  • 00:16:56
    streets are not in any way represent
  • 00:16:58
    resentative of our country nor of our
  • 00:17:01
    young people the fight back has well and
  • 00:17:03
    truly begun David Cameron and the
  • 00:17:05
    government had to do something obviously
  • 00:17:07
    so they put 16,000 police officers in
  • 00:17:10
    London and it seems like this in part
  • 00:17:12
    led to the beginning of the end of the
  • 00:17:14
    rioting the more and more police that
  • 00:17:15
    were there it was just a higher risk
  • 00:17:17
    that you could get caught all of the
  • 00:17:19
    good shops had been looted by now so
  • 00:17:22
    there was kind of less opportunity to
  • 00:17:23
    you know get your PlayStations or
  • 00:17:25
    whatever and as well there was reports
  • 00:17:26
    that some riters were actually just
  • 00:17:27
    feeling remorse maybe they sobered up
  • 00:17:30
    from The Rage of the whole moment and
  • 00:17:32
    saw these stories of people dying saw
  • 00:17:34
    what they had done to their own
  • 00:17:36
    communities and eventually on the 11th
  • 00:17:39
    of August 2011 the London riots came to
  • 00:17:42
    an
  • 00:17:43
    end Fallout continues in Britain over
  • 00:17:45
    the rioting and violence that broke out
  • 00:17:47
    one week ago today it began in London
  • 00:17:49
    and spread around England for four
  • 00:17:50
    nights at least five people were killed
  • 00:17:52
    and many businesses were looted or
  • 00:17:53
    torched the mopping up operation
  • 00:17:56
    continues but this was a big mess and
  • 00:17:58
    there's a lot to Mar up it's believed
  • 00:18:00
    that 20,000 riers took to the streets
  • 00:18:02
    across the country over 85 different
  • 00:18:05
    locations there was five deaths many
  • 00:18:07
    people were injured $500 million worth
  • 00:18:10
    of damage was done to shops and
  • 00:18:12
    businesses and then the invaluable stuff
  • 00:18:14
    like just history and beautiful
  • 00:18:16
    architecture destroyed a very
  • 00:18:18
    embarrassed British establishment sought
  • 00:18:21
    to hand out the harshest possible
  • 00:18:23
    punishments for rioters there was
  • 00:18:27
    2,158 convictions with
  • 00:18:29
    1,800 years total being given out you
  • 00:18:32
    are having people who had never
  • 00:18:34
    committed crimes before like firsttime
  • 00:18:35
    offenders in one instance being given 6
  • 00:18:38
    months for stealing a350 bottle of water
  • 00:18:40
    from Lidle I hope for their sake it was
  • 00:18:42
    a s pelo at least 2,000 of the people
  • 00:18:45
    being sentenced were on average facing
  • 00:18:48
    jail time that was 4 and 1 half times as
  • 00:18:50
    long as what would normally be warranted
  • 00:18:52
    for the same crimes you see as all this
  • 00:18:53
    was going on all this Mayhem and the
  • 00:18:55
    Carnage the aftermath the country
  • 00:18:57
    realized it had forgotten some one what
  • 00:18:59
    was his name was it Mark Dugen was
  • 00:19:04
    it it is important however that I
  • 00:19:07
    address some of the misinformation
  • 00:19:08
    circling around much of which is
  • 00:19:11
    unhelpful and some of which is
  • 00:19:13
    inflammatory speculation that Mark Dugen
  • 00:19:16
    was assassinated in an execution style
  • 00:19:19
    involving a number of shots to the Head
  • 00:19:21
    are categorically untrue Mark Dugen has
  • 00:19:24
    been dubbed like the British George
  • 00:19:26
    Floyd before however the scenarios are
  • 00:19:28
    considerably different George Floyd it
  • 00:19:30
    was pretty cut and dry what had happened
  • 00:19:31
    we could see it on video but the mar
  • 00:19:33
    dougen scenario was considerably more
  • 00:19:35
    messy in 2020 so 9 years after the
  • 00:19:38
    incident forensic architecture did a
  • 00:19:41
    report did a did a study with the Doug
  • 00:19:44
    and family to try and work out exactly
  • 00:19:46
    what had happened that caused Mark
  • 00:19:47
    Dugan's death I'll link the video below
  • 00:19:49
    it's really worth watching it's very
  • 00:19:51
    interesting there's a few very important
  • 00:19:53
    contentions in the story of how Mark
  • 00:19:55
    Dugen died that I'll try and explain to
  • 00:19:57
    you now the officer that killed Mark
  • 00:19:59
    Dugen is known only as v53 when he
  • 00:20:02
    explained what had happened he said he
  • 00:20:03
    was sure that he saw Mart Dugen holding
  • 00:20:05
    a gun he said it was in a sock in his
  • 00:20:07
    hand and that he went to aim it at the
  • 00:20:09
    police officer and therefore he shot him
  • 00:20:12
    however when he dropped to the floor
  • 00:20:13
    dead somehow the gun had vanished
  • 00:20:16
    despite on the record not a single one
  • 00:20:18
    of the officers reported seeing Mark
  • 00:20:20
    Dugen throw a gun or anything like that
  • 00:20:22
    they later found a gun wrapped in a
  • 00:20:25
    black sock 20 ft away from Markt
  • 00:20:27
    dougen's body on the other side of the
  • 00:20:29
    railings like on some grass forensic
  • 00:20:31
    architecture who did the report they
  • 00:20:33
    played all the different scenarios in
  • 00:20:35
    which it would be possible for Mart Doug
  • 00:20:36
    to throw a gun and the way that they
  • 00:20:39
    present it appears that it kind of seems
  • 00:20:42
    impossible and they allude to the
  • 00:20:45
    possibility that the police could have
  • 00:20:48
    placed it there in 2014 there was an
  • 00:20:50
    inquest into Mark dougen's death and the
  • 00:20:51
    inquest jury found that Mark Dugen was
  • 00:20:54
    not holding a gun when he was shot
  • 00:20:56
    however they concluded that the killing
  • 00:20:59
    of Mark dougen was lawful Mark dougen's
  • 00:21:02
    family then challenged the decision but
  • 00:21:04
    they were ruled against and the UK
  • 00:21:06
    Supreme Court declined to hear the
  • 00:21:10
    case but then jump forward to 2019
  • 00:21:14
    reports would emerged that the dougen
  • 00:21:15
    family had settled damages with the Met
  • 00:21:18
    police where importantly they claimed
  • 00:21:20
    that there was no admission of guilt
  • 00:21:22
    that they killed Mark Dugen unlawfully
  • 00:21:25
    but privately they settled with the
  • 00:21:27
    Dugen family the Metropolitan Police has
  • 00:21:29
    apologized to the family of Mark Dugen
  • 00:21:31
    whose death triggered the riots in
  • 00:21:33
    Tottenham which spread throughout the
  • 00:21:35
    capital and to other parts of the
  • 00:21:36
    country officers have been strongly
  • 00:21:38
    criticized by the police Watchdog the
  • 00:21:40
    ipcc for failing to inform his parents
  • 00:21:43
    that they had shot Mr Dougan dead we can
  • 00:21:45
    speculate on whether the police were
  • 00:21:47
    right or what happened in that scenario
  • 00:21:49
    but one thing we can say was that the
  • 00:21:51
    police and the media's handling of this
  • 00:21:54
    situation was extremely unprofessional
  • 00:21:57
    since the riots the the media have been
  • 00:21:59
    widely criticized for this the ipcc had
  • 00:22:01
    to formally apologize for handing out
  • 00:22:04
    misinformation to journalists in regards
  • 00:22:06
    to saying that there had been a shootout
  • 00:22:08
    between Mark Dugen and police officers
  • 00:22:10
    pretty much in unison the media just
  • 00:22:12
    concluded Mark Dugen was a ganger they
  • 00:22:15
    drove this narrative years after the
  • 00:22:17
    whole riots everything with the
  • 00:22:19
    independent here calling Mark Dugen
  • 00:22:21
    among Europe's most feared and violent
  • 00:22:23
    criminals however the police task force
  • 00:22:26
    like the operation who were responsible
  • 00:22:28
    for killing Mark Dugen they came out
  • 00:22:30
    saying that that was untrue and then
  • 00:22:32
    there's this image this famous image
  • 00:22:34
    where it shows Mark Dugen looking
  • 00:22:36
    Sinister and scary this was all across
  • 00:22:38
    the media when talking about Mark Dugen
  • 00:22:40
    however it turns out that this image was
  • 00:22:42
    cropped and if you zoom out it was
  • 00:22:44
    actually a photograph of him mourning
  • 00:22:46
    the death of his daughter there's a
  • 00:22:47
    really great piece by the IR called
  • 00:22:49
    framing the death of Mark Dugen and it
  • 00:22:51
    goes into the way that the media had
  • 00:22:53
    shaped a narrative around Mark Dugen
  • 00:22:56
    where it was very clear that they had
  • 00:22:57
    this sort of guilty
  • 00:22:59
    until proven innocent attitude they
  • 00:23:01
    decided what Mark Dugen was they had
  • 00:23:03
    made up their minds and that's how they
  • 00:23:04
    presented him and of course the the
  • 00:23:06
    elephant in the room here is that a lot
  • 00:23:08
    of this happened in Black communities
  • 00:23:10
    and this definitely affected the
  • 00:23:11
    rhetoric around the riots famously this
  • 00:23:14
    historian called David ly went on the
  • 00:23:16
    BBC saying the phrase the whites have
  • 00:23:19
    become black what's happened is that the
  • 00:23:21
    substantial section of the chavs that
  • 00:23:24
    you wrote about have become black the
  • 00:23:26
    whites have become black a particular
  • 00:23:28
    ular sort of violent destructive
  • 00:23:32
    nihilistic gangster culture has become
  • 00:23:35
    the fashion and black and white boy and
  • 00:23:38
    girl operate in this language together
  • 00:23:41
    this language which is holy false which
  • 00:23:44
    is this Jamaican pwa that's been
  • 00:23:46
    intruded in
  • 00:23:49
    England after a weekend of Destruction
  • 00:23:52
    looting and arson across London
  • 00:23:53
    questions are being asked about the root
  • 00:23:56
    causes behind the violence many far more
  • 00:23:58
    sophisticated Minds than I have
  • 00:24:00
    theorized why Britain nearly collapsed
  • 00:24:03
    in 2011 and there's a few like main
  • 00:24:05
    theories so the week posted this list of
  • 00:24:08
    five I'm going to go through them
  • 00:24:09
    firstly is the police response the
  • 00:24:11
    police response was terrible they didn't
  • 00:24:13
    speak to the mar dog and family quick
  • 00:24:14
    and on top of this the early police
  • 00:24:16
    response to the riots were not great
  • 00:24:18
    maybe this had something to do with the
  • 00:24:19
    fact that there was Major cuts to the
  • 00:24:20
    police force but who knows secondly was
  • 00:24:23
    racial profiling it didn't really matter
  • 00:24:25
    about the specific events that happened
  • 00:24:27
    it was often seen as an expression of a
  • 00:24:29
    feeling in the black community lots of
  • 00:24:32
    the writers when interviewed would say
  • 00:24:33
    that they felt they were a victim to
  • 00:24:35
    racial profiling that they couldn't walk
  • 00:24:37
    down the street without having a police
  • 00:24:38
    officer either Drive slowly past them or
  • 00:24:40
    search them for a weapon or something
  • 00:24:42
    and this leads us on to thirdly Social
  • 00:24:44
    and economic inequality the UK went
  • 00:24:46
    through some brutal cuts to like Social
  • 00:24:49
    Services things for the Youth to do and
  • 00:24:51
    there was Major inequality from the
  • 00:24:52
    richest of society to the poorest of
  • 00:24:54
    society and then we have the fourth
  • 00:24:56
    thing which is high unemployment we were
  • 00:24:58
    experiencing some major unemployment
  • 00:25:00
    most of the people looting and
  • 00:25:01
    vandalizing were under the age of 20
  • 00:25:04
    without any jobs and so all these things
  • 00:25:06
    lay the foundation for the fifth and
  • 00:25:08
    final thing which is Mob mentality and
  • 00:25:10
    opportunism for sure you can be
  • 00:25:13
    sympathetic of the feelings that would
  • 00:25:15
    lead people to rioting but once it
  • 00:25:17
    started there were a lot of people that
  • 00:25:19
    saw it as an opportunity to get a new
  • 00:25:21
    pair of Air Force Ones or some P's
  • 00:25:24
    Boutique for your misses it doesn't make
  • 00:25:26
    it right and for sure these people are
  • 00:25:27
    respons ible for their own individual
  • 00:25:29
    actions but to me it just seems so dumb
  • 00:25:31
    to look at it as a surface level thing
  • 00:25:34
    it's like oh they're just criminals
  • 00:25:35
    they're just bad people and to not
  • 00:25:37
    consider the reason why an individual
  • 00:25:39
    would be okay with burning down their
  • 00:25:40
    entire Community willing to potentially
  • 00:25:43
    go to jail for a Playstation but you do
  • 00:25:45
    have to consider the fact that you
  • 00:25:46
    wouldn't see you know a whole wave of
  • 00:25:48
    middle class people out in the streets
  • 00:25:50
    rioting and looting shops you that isn't
  • 00:25:52
    probably going to happen riots tend to
  • 00:25:54
    very often come from areas of high
  • 00:25:56
    unemployment and where you have have a
  • 00:25:58
    massive underclass of society who feel
  • 00:26:00
    no real way of achieving anything in
  • 00:26:03
    their lives who get constantly looked
  • 00:26:05
    down upon and constantly seen as the
  • 00:26:07
    blight of society when you literally
  • 00:26:08
    have this person who's well spoken and
  • 00:26:11
    supposedly a historian going on the BBC
  • 00:26:13
    and claiming that all of this came from
  • 00:26:15
    the fact that there were white people
  • 00:26:16
    wanting to be black like this is a
  • 00:26:18
    historian who should know that riots
  • 00:26:20
    have occurred throughout history when
  • 00:26:21
    you have tons of inequality and tons of
  • 00:26:23
    unemployment but somehow this scenario
  • 00:26:25
    is completely different and it's because
  • 00:26:26
    of Jamaican pwa just been rereading
  • 00:26:29
    Enoch Powell his prophecy was absolutely
  • 00:26:33
    right the timing of the riots was very
  • 00:26:36
    particular it was 2011 bearing in mind a
  • 00:26:39
    few years prior to this the world had
  • 00:26:41
    just witnessed Bankers crash the global
  • 00:26:43
    economy that did immeasurable damage to
  • 00:26:45
    the world and like mostly went
  • 00:26:47
    unpunished and got bonuses 2011 was also
  • 00:26:50
    just after the big MP expenses Scandal
  • 00:26:53
    where instead of MPS smashing into cares
  • 00:26:55
    to grab a plasma TV they just took the
  • 00:26:58
    money from the taxpayer these MPS were
  • 00:27:00
    handed out minimal punishments and just
  • 00:27:02
    asked to pay the money back and then you
  • 00:27:04
    get this sorry lady getting six months
  • 00:27:06
    for a bottle of water and look I just
  • 00:27:07
    want to conclude with this I am no way
  • 00:27:10
    defending the actions of writers it was
  • 00:27:12
    horrific and rest in peace to the people
  • 00:27:14
    who died and it's [ __ ] up but I just
  • 00:27:16
    think as a society in Britain if we just
  • 00:27:18
    always dig our head in the Sands
  • 00:27:20
    whenever something like this happens
  • 00:27:22
    until we take responsibility that our
  • 00:27:23
    society and culture breeds this
  • 00:27:26
    environment where people are willing to
  • 00:27:28
    burn down their homes these problems are
  • 00:27:30
    not going to go away if you're pressing
  • 00:27:32
    we pressing the people pressing the
  • 00:27:34
    people pressing the people eventually
  • 00:27:35
    they going to want to stand up to you
  • 00:27:37
    cuz they're looking like you know what
  • 00:27:38
    we ain't got nothing to lose that's how
  • 00:27:39
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