The Forgotten Riots that Almost Destroyed London
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Today we remember the London riots, an insane period of time I and many other brits lived through where for 4 days the UK was on fire.
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2pac one said a see no changes all I see is racist faces what I always like to bring up when talking about uk politics like when ever the tortes fuck up they will try to divert the attention away from them to Irish people or black people or the lgbtq community it fucking sucks living here with labour being really cringe and trying to justify the Iraq war with the Blair boys fuck the uk
Dude, you need to do the same with George Floyd as you did with this investigation, I thought Floyd was cut and dry, but he isn't. He was a bad man, he was full of drugs he swallowed so the police wouldn't find it, he was passing fake money when he was caught, he held up a pregnant woman in her home with a gun in her belly. I shed a tear for George when I watched it, but then, months later, they released ALL the footage. There's no way the police in UK would have put up with George's play-acting for as long as they did in USA.
it is also the fact that, our police, don't have the balls, to reject the exchange programmes with America and look up to American policing. so it will happen again and again. racial profiling is an American method, of policing, it's alien in every way to the British people, and the fact our police are trained in it. well it makes me wonder why.
Mark Duggan was scumbag and it was never a peaceful protest.
@@jaynedavies2757 I lived in a scheme/estate, No blacks, just white schemos. The police profiled us from the 70s. If we took a short cut through a rich area, the police would stop and search us, same if we were walking into town. Why, because we more likely to be committing crime. The same happens in America. Black are more likely to be committing crime because they are schemos/chavs
Due to inflation riot kits are now £10
Only a tenner??!! I got ripped off then, £20
Prices always rising 🙃
Didn't know you could get a pair of air max and a balaclava for a tenner!!
still cheap
😂
I remember those riots, I worked in a supermarket In Croydon and I can still remember security comming into the office and telling the store manager "They're outside, obout a hundred of them". We had already been told by head office that if they got inside we weren't to stop them, our only concern was to make sure they didn't start a fire. Scary times when it's outside your door and not just something on TV.
Why didnt they order you to close the shutters instead??
Why you was kept on duty while it was so dangerous to be there? Don't you belive you should had a day free? Would you die for a day paycheck in a market?
INSURANCE BABYYYY@@Wildonnor
Same with shop I worked in. My head office wasn’t based in London so they were unaware of how many little shits were out on the street and even after telling them they still insisted we remain open. Fortunately the police had a riot van pull up outside and they made us close up. Only had a small group come in though-trying to steal fragrances, we were lucky as JD sports was two doors along and that was their prime target.
@@fallenangelo6049 what amaze me is that on a side there are a lot of emotionally distressed people with a limeted consciousnes on the other there are those CEOs or alike consciously and openly showing no care for their employers and the mentioned employers risking their life to bring a pay day home and doing so keeping the system of the leaders helding strong. Yet is widly viewed as criminal the mob, even gimmy in the final conclusions, despite noticing all the time how there had been a lot of factors that fueled the spread of violence, he can't help but calling the riot out as "the problem".
In my book the riot Is a solution, maybe a bad one, i can agree. The problems are the reasons why the riot started in the first place. I trully "love" how simple logic can be turned so upside down with enought propaganda.
It wasn't extra policing which ended the riots. It rained.
So God intervened to stop the criminals who were the devil's minions. Makes sense.
I never said the rain was divine intervention to prevent a biblical prophecy. It's Britain, it rains a lot. The riots persisted until it rained for a few days.
@@pearofgeeksii8156 I believe you're correct. Thugs are their minions are lawless and this would have otherwise required military intervention I suspect.
@@escfxp You what?! Are you smoking crack?
Rained in London, never
one video that stuck with me from this time was where a international student got attacked, had his jaw broken I think.... and then some other guys offered to help him back up but then stole stuff from his backpack while he was distracted. I agree inequality was a big driver for the riots, but its hard to feel sympathy for people who do that kind of thing.
Yeah I remember watching that - it stuck with me for a while. Same as the international student who was beaten up during Covid.
Yh I remember watching that as a kid I was out there too didn't even know why
The driver of the riots was the family who denied all evidence that he was armed and dangerous and got himself killed for his own actions and they lied to everyone that he was a poor, innocent and discriminated against. You perpetuate these lies and validate their violence and this will happen again.
Same people. Different city.
It wasn't inequality. It was opportunity, and criminal gangs. They just used the death of a criminal as an excuse.
The looting is the worst thing about riots like what did some local man’s shop do
Sell rice, remember the idiot who admitted to stealing a kilo of rice & got jailed 😂
Exactly, “we hate the police so let’s go and harm innocent people and rob their stores”
exactly had enough of blacks bashing south asians shop owners
@@ashleyoasis7948 you seem to have a whole lot of identity problems and a weird focus on the identity of others
@@DMWBN3yeah.....the thing about that is.I know people who were paid by a news channel to say they were there and tell stories while acting them out. They were offered get this- clothes and trainers 😂 I'm not saying fake news, just saying the news is fake! Why bribe youths to incriminate themselves so you can have a story? Eh BBC? Any answers?
16:01 - the man just lost the most valuable thing in his life, his son. Yet he's there calling for an end to hostility; having to argue his point too. A real brave wise man amongst fools
he probably didn't care much for his son and used the opportunity to elevate his own reputation
I still find it funny how they rioted for a known criminal and now his son is a big rapper also a known criminal, the irony
who just got arrested for having a gun with bullets. apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
@@IDunGivaFook this is the point! The few making this a race thing are barking up the wrong tree though.
they rioted because the police killed him and lied about the circumstances, it was also just the cherry on top over the way the police treat certain communities, also if the police had killed your father when you were a child and you grew up in tottenham in a poor family you'd be having a laugh if you think you'd never commit a crime.
@@TM-ch3hl ah the classic "blame everyone but myself for my own actions" It has been proven time after time that police don't treat different communities differently it's just some communities are willing to take accountability for their actions while others aren't, you don't see white or Asian kids creating gangs and calling themselves "road men", stop acting like they aren't the ones proudly talking about being criminals they literally make music about stabbing people and act like it's a normal thing to be proud of having turf wars over postcodes and what council estate you live on, it's embarrassing how you can attribute all of that to "it's everyone else's fault" isn't it funny how the generation before them didn't resort to violent gang crime
@@TM-ch3hl exactly. There's clear evidence on the links between poverty, trauma etc. and crime/'anti-social behavior'
Its disgraceful how the working people were the ones having to clean up after these disgusting bastards.
I agree. What do you expect from them?
@@davewordsworth1251 Agreed. These people are not civil rights activists. Martin Luther King never ordered his followers to loot stores. These were just sick thugs, plain and simple, who took advantage of a shooting to do some looting.
Sad to see it get repeated in American in 2020
But let's not pretend it's not parts of the working class contributing to it as well.
Which city of Africa did these riots occured?
@@SASMADBRUV7working class 😂
No mate, they were too busy working
"he wasn't a gangster. he wasn't like that"... "but if he did have a gun"
It is astonishing how biased the member of this 'community'' can be and unfortunately not taking responsibility and actually condemn the bad apples makes them all look alike, and makes us all feel like there is nothing that can be done for them to improve. It's a vicious cycle that never ends.
He and George, good boys, promise.
"He was the best guy around" "what about the murders?" "WHAAAT MURDERSSSS?"
Okes if you're gonna be racist just be racist fully don't hide behind euphemism and what not . Don't be cowardly
You obviously don’t understand what’s it like to live in a gang territory sometimes people not involved need to carry a weapon
London is becoming hugely divided now, only a matter of time before something else kicks off
i can see it in the comments😂
Doubt you even live in London mate
The 2011 Riots were really about poverty and the lack of money/jobs following the 2008 recession. The same pattern is repeating now in 2024. Many Londoners being priced out or straight up replaced by cheap migrants fresh off the boat. I actually think the tinder box is worse now than in 2011. I think we wil see more violence in the coming years.
@@almansouri100 20 years was enough for me.
And I can see you looking in your crystal ball , you antisemitic 🤷🏻♂️
Your Race card is laying on the floor where you left it ole-China-plate
I was stuck working in birmingham when the riots broke out there. As the riots started getting closer and closer escape routes were getting blocked off more and more, our boss did the only thing he could think of, bundle us all in othe back of a 7.5 tonne lorry (about 25 of us) and told the driver to get us at least 5 miles away. Driver was given explicit instructions, if the cops are in front of us, stop, if rioters were in front of us, keep going no matter what (which translated to " If someone tries blocking you in, run them over") it ended up, we got out with minutes to spare, they were literally like 2 streets away.. We got to a safe distance and waited to hear the news on if the company building had survived, it didn't... They smashed the place to shit, ram raided the doors open and just destroyed the place, not even bothering to try and loot much stuff, they just wanted to detroy everything around them.
It had nothing to do with Mark being killed, it was just mob mentallity "Hey people are rioting across britain, this looks fun, lets do it too" Was NOT a fun time to be alive..
I remember seeing one internet post where some kid was bragging he had been looting.. What did he steal ?? a 1kg bag of white rice. Proper gansta that one. Although the dip shit was showing his face in the video and cops used that to match to someone on cctv. He basically grassed himself up and provided the evidence the cops needed..
I’d just moved to Barcelona & watched it on the tv. Seeing Spanish people’s reactions, I felt pretty embarrassed to be English.
Trashing businesses, Robbing, looting … all for trainers!!!
Morons.
We laughed at the rice looter but because of inflation that 1kg of rice is now worth thousands
@@DMWBN3 wasn't the English looting though was it, however I would feel embarrassment on behalf of some of my fellow English, if I was still capable given their woke state, in that they can't tell the difference between what is English and what is most clearly not
@@indi_primeI’d say there were many English born looting.
Didn’t ask to see ID, but think I get what you mean!
Basmati!
I remember a stupid lad that took photos of him posing like a gangster with a large bag of tesco value rice he stole from Tesco during the riots and then posted it on Facebook.
He stupidly posted his own crime and He ended up jail for a few years. Of all the things you could end up in jail for... stealing a £1.39 bag of rice.
Heh, criminal of the year award :)
I remember a Twitter photo at the time of a guy's coffee table with loads of TV stuff he looted on it? I think he was in it, I can't remember it perfectly but I remember it still to this day
Two years.
The crime he was punished for was participating in a riot, not stealing rice.
If you lived in London at the time, trust me you never forgot these Riots. I Never Will
I remember this day and the days that followed… army was even put on standby.
Don’t be so soft. This would’ve been seen as just another Tuesday in France
@@hotmess9640 ur chatting pure shite lol France had 1 recent riot which was in Paris n before that the revolution in like 1800’s😂💀 London riots was on the news worldwide with more deaths than the Paris riots n don’t forget uk had to save France in ww2 as the nazis were battering them😂😂
Most people forgot 😂
@@hotmess9640no it wouldn't you talking crap
One of my mates lived in Croydon during the riots, always talks about the windows being boarded up in their house and his dad putting barricades in front of the front & back doors.
Wild.
And who caused the riots?
@@stelladavis7832little shits
Billy.
Billy caused the riots. All of them.
@@stelladavis7832 Certain ethnic groups.
@@tagus100 shut up,
It seemed obvious early on, to those of us that lived through this that the ‘revenge’ criminal damage often appears to have occurred to draw police to a location so that gangs could then loot unopposed in other locations whilst the cops were dealing with the first. The reason it spread was that there were plenty of people up for doing a copycat and getting a load of designer gear for free once they saw the tactic was working. The ‘rioters’ only looted shops which contained designer gear or other items they desired or thought they could sell on easily. They didn’t burn the phone shop they looted it. They didn’t loot the furniture shop they burnt it. This is just like what is happening in California now, once people see they have a way to get free stuff for very little risk all the rats come out and copycat. Same thing happened in South Africa a few years ago
You lot will never change will you
Only shops that got burnt on Brixton high street were footlocker and JD
@@richtheunstable3359 Was it burnt before or after it was looted?
@@Ironbuket who knows, possibly during. Most like had run out of stuff to loot. Don't think many if any other stores got looted.
you are right the exact same happened in SA. The initial riots were small but spread like wildfire when the looting began. Literally in every single interview of these rioters, they all confess that they only joined in for the looting
Maddest thing is he actually was a drug dealer and his son is now a drill rapper
Mad. .no one could predict that or his son being a criminal too.
Also in jail
Starkey was right
Do you get the death penalty for being a low-level drug dealer?
The way the family talk about mark duggan is embarrassing. It’s well known what he was like, who he was connected with and that he was far from innocent.
"Mark was just a lovely boy. Used to help old ladies over the road, bring 'is muvver flowers every day, luvved puppies 'n kittens"
Exactly not to mention his son being a known criminal and famous rapper who claims the police discriminate against him
@@user-op6kt8pg9y one of his best mates is doing a life sentence for murder and has to serve at least 19 years (after appealing the original 21 year tariff).
@@DLIN666 I stopped listening to drill music when ofb the gang his son is in made a song where one of the members literally says "I poked him I poked him yeah well that's true" and then literally the next line he says "the police always stopping me cus I'm a black yute" after that I stopped with drill altogether I just couldn't believe someone could blatantly admit to stabbing people and then say the police are racist for stop and searching him, it was an odd faze of my life from 16-18, the problem is they all think like that, every single one of them they have the mindset of "oh I can stab and kill and shoot whoever I want, but if the law gets involved it's because they're racist", like digga d he had a whole BBC documentary made about him and about how the police constantly stop him while driving despite the fact he was arrested multiple times for driving around with full on machetes in his car, it's actually embarrassing the lengths the media and the race baiters go through to justify criminals being criminals
@@user-op6kt8pg9y mate, with that comment you’ve left me with nothing to say apart from - amen. Spot on mate. Amen.
My neighboring cell mate was involved in the riots. He was cookoo. Absolutely mad and mentally unwell. He was one of the looters. When I asked him why he did it, it had nothing to do with Mark Duggan. He just wanted free stuff and be involved in the madness. Good lad though, always helped me out if I needed anything.
Yeah it's a shame, but it's common for protests / riots with genuine cause being used by others for entertainment etc
@@mananzi9907This is what happens when bad education meets consumerism it's won't be the first time and it definitely will not be the last if the world is defined by haves and have-nots I can see more riots having the same energy just look at the BLM protests in the USA for example they had the same problem
Yeah I heard idiots on the bus boasting about their free tv's People just took advantage in the chaos as people tend to do.
@@mantovannni funny thing is when i lived in london i found so many tv on the street for free
@@mananzi9907or get pushed to that by their gov so they can use force…
You forgotten to mention that Britain had the olympics the following year and many of the foreign press were questioning weather the UK could host an Olympics safely.
And France is hosting next...
Oh god
At the time I lived on Chestnut Estate. Now for those unfamiliar with the area, it is the estate behind Tottenham Police Station. You can’t really get much closer to the street than being there and you cannot help but become aware of who’s who and the local ‘faces’ - most of whom you’ll either see or they’ll be spoken about.
Make absolutely no doubt about it, Mark Duggan - and all of his accomplices - were extremely well known ‘faces’. It didn’t shock anyone on Chestnut when it came out that he was the one shot by the police. If you involve yourself in serious organised crime - which IS what he did - eventually you will get bitten: either by the police, or someone else within that life.
The whole riot thing was a disgrace. Why did it start? I’ll tell you. It was his family gaslighting the media, and trying to build a narrative that he was an innocent angel. I dunno maybe it’s too embarrassing to admit that a member of their family was a criminal who brought misery and suffering? Easier to paint him as a victim than to admit the truth.
On Chestnut, no one shed any tears for him. In fact, more tears were shed seeing the High Road destroyed by the feral brats. No one felt safe for a week and that wasn’t fear of the police - it was fear of these hooligans who thought it was okay to intimidate the community. It’s not a rich area - quite the opposite - and you don’t do that.
Why did other areas riot? It was summer and bored feral kids with nothing better to do. They saw it as an opportunity to go and rob a TV or tat from JD Sports. Nothing about all that was to do with Duggan, just an excuse to justify criminality.
So this person is full of shit
100%. Fatherless, feral kids - emboldened by race-baiters, given victim status and given an excuse to do as they wished.
course you did mate
Well said. They need sending back aswell.
No nope and nah. U can have your opinion but it’s bs to me.
Man, what you said about MPs simply taking money from the taxpayers rather than smashing into stores to grab plasma TVs...that hit hard.
Highly doubtful anybody in those riots have ever paid tax.
because they dont have anywhere near a need to. MPs were born wealthy, and stay so by driving these people into further poverty
@@bawsack69 everyone pays VAT
@@Tomartyr shoplifters don't.
@@akgfilmingMPs were born wealthy? I know you hate MPs, but to say every MP was born wealthy is simply untrue.
My man uploaded 3 days IN A ROW?!?!? Respect and appreciate the grind sir!!!
He’s just one man, no “men’s” here…😂😂😂
@@DaveSCameron how do you know that he hasn't got an editor or other members?
Uploading when that CPM is high
"my man" is chav chat , yu get meh ?
'grind' 😂🤣😂😅
A reminder that this happened just a year before the London 2012 Olympics, an event supposed to bring people of all communities, nationalities and backgrounds together. The timing could never have been more perfect
This is why I boycotted that event! A total waste of money.
There was the big meme which was one of the looters running away from the Olympics symbol after stealing one of the rings.
The whole system we live under is anti Whyte
As somebody who lived in Wood Green (next door neighbours to Tottenham) I remember these on the headlines and remember the high road being blocked off due to these riots and fires. Remember it like it was yesterday…
What ive learned in life is when an innocent person is harmed nobody cares. every protest there has ever been is always over criminals and terrorists. animals
Erm, Rodney King?
@@anonymousinternetaddict have you not seen his criminal record. from wife beating to armed robbery you prove my point. typical
@@Deadpoolwashere he was on parole after having other charges dropped. Still doesn't warrant receiving 11 skull fractures and permanent brain damage when the police could've just restrained him. That was what people were outraged at
@@anonymousinternetaddict that's not my point. you are changing the point to help you sleep at night as you cannot face reality.
My point is that people riot over criminals but when truly pure hearted people are hurt nobody cares, people keep eating their dinner and there are no riots. This is the simple animalistic nature of humanity.
These people you support even if it wasn't totally right how they died or where injured are fact 100% without a doubt criminals, evil doers or terrorists.
I don't think most of the rioters even knew who Duggan was.
We forget the fact that Mark Duggan wasn’t a good man
Mark Duncan
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This isn't Judge Dread
@pf.ric3 are you just acting stupid or is that a genuine question. You do know they were looking for him don’t you? Of course they knew about his personal life🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@campbellthetoast7897 don’t care ?
Brooooo, what a video! Just subbed. I remember being stuck right in the middle of the riots in a fight between the police and the rioters. I was 15, on my own and just came out of CEX in ilford with a new PlayStation game 😅
I had absolutely no idea what was going on
Nothing pisses people off more than when the police look at them suspiciously as if they're probably doing what they are, in fact, doing.
Said no one ever as police continually shoot and cover up their crimes, lie in court, destroy evidence against people doing absolutely no crimes at the scene of their deaths.
But hey, he's a black. Must be a crim eh? You getting tired licking those boots?
What was ironic about this was that David Cameron was making budget cuts to British public services some of which were to the police and then suddenly he needed the police but after all this ended he continued to make cuts to the police which is probably why crimes such as knife crime are on the rise in the UK now as a knock on effect from his time as Prime Minister. He’s got a lot to answer for today
No he hasn't. Cameron is a legend the best prime minister uk has ever had. He's also a keen gta 5 online player. I've played him a few times and he has a wicked son and a bad boy whip (car)
@@shibbymiyah6614seen him in O beach last summer and he gave me a key in the bogs. Can confirm he’s a fucking legend.
@@shibbymiyah6614 Lmao it doesnt matter he was a keen gta 5 player or even owned a sick ass bad boy car the guy actually did fuck up the country at the time with the budget cuts which have spirilled out of control with the lastest gov and also fucked a pig (not his wife) 😮💨
it was no coincidence, just like they the most important people being out the country during such a chaotic time
Yh the funding cuts hurt the police but I've got mates in the police. They say the problem isn't funding it's the courts giving stupidly lenient sentences.
The only thing i remember from those riots with that one dude who took a selfie with a stolen bag of basmati rice. Great times
My uncle was driving the bus through Hackney and someone hit him with a glass bottle on his head, left him scarred so tfl gave him a heavy payment as compensation
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I'm exactly the same. I don't give a shit about which internet celebrity is a terrible person. But Jimmy does videos on things I actually give a crap about and feel more relatable to me as a Brit. We need to back more British content creators like this.
One of the most successful channel pivots ever, Jimmy is awesome at this investigative stuff
i wonder why people didn't behave the same way after lee rigby was murdered?
? People reacted like this because police have been killing us for years, he was a criminal it wasn’t exactly about him it was a build up of it
Well 130+ people met in elham to protect the shops. Some of the rioters got a good hiding before the police started protecting them.
Millwall boys Eltham locals and some Charlton . Enfield locals did the same
@Rumpleforeskin77 yeah I was there. Shame you can't even defend you own home anymore
@@clarkejosland9982 Good lad yourself .
"This is the side of Britain that we often keep a big secret" - that's the quote, dude. That's what ALL of this was about.
tbh I kind of like the UK because of that. Like we know fully well that they do their best to hide the poor behind a huge wall or something so that nobody see them. But every now and then things like this happen so we can get a view from the outside what actual britian is like.
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@@likemysnoppYou didn’t hit the nail live here for 15 years then you can talk
@likemysnopp the poor and "underprivileged" are the loudest people in Britain.
They are not forgotten or hidden, they make sure of this.
Maybe the rest of the world doesn't like to hear it, so just ignores it, but here in the UK it's not like that at all.
In fact, the most hidden thing and taboo to talk about is how people who appear to have some "wealth" are actually struggling to feed their families, to hold down a job and are not being helped by anybody. A real problem here which is a taboo to talk about because "they have a job" or "they have a mortgage".
Them, and if that horrible woman in parliament has her way, the homeless will be hidden. Moved on from the streets, locked up for pitching tents and begging for money.
Braverman is a scary woman with scary ideas.
@@richardwillson101bingo, it's the destruction of the middle class and further treading down of the poor
I remember this. I was 11 at the time, terrified that the riots would reach where I lived.
It seems so strange how we all seem to have forgotten about it almost.
Great video, i've been watching your channel for a week now, and its very interesting !
I'm french and whatever our rivalry is😅, its clear we are living the same kind of events.
Thanks for letting me learn more about UK
You are so much better than mainstream TV. Hats off to you. I’ve subscribed.
Mate, keep doing this sort of direction and thesis about your video production. Extremely down to earth and relatable sense of humour etc. You will go places mate!
Im an 04 kid so this event seemed eeringly like the norm. So it is extremely interesting to observe these once very *present events - are now part of a timeline in mad history.
These communities show you who they are once they feel they've got a 'free pass' or a just reason to do terrible things.
bro is spitting factual information rn fr
Who are "these communities"?
@@HymenBreaker4So basically just thinly veiled racism? Got it.
its funny these same people complain the country has no money, the police have no funding... i mean come on, I'm sure none of this has to be rebuilt, police cars didn't need fixing or replacing, nah mate, of course, must be the government's fault. And no, not defending the useless MP's, but come on, you can't destroy a city and be upset that the money needs to come from somewhere...
@@HymenBreaker4 So we're just going to sleep on the fact that the guy who got everyone to go home, and his sons who were killed trying to prevent riot damage, was middle-eastern? Those polish guys helping form a defensive line around the local small businesses? You want to point at "non-ethnic English communities" but the fact of the matter is that it wasn't the non-English doing this, crime statistics of first-generation migrants and the British population at large show quite conclusively that immigrants commit measurably less crime than natural-born citizens. What you're looking at is the effect of growing up poor in the UK; the effect of the British establishment marginalising, exploiting, and neglecting its working class (which stung especially hard in 2011 just 3 years after the British government spent billions bailing out the banks who helped create the '08 financial crisis and the property bubble that preceded it that helped encourage property prices nationwide, but especially in large cities like London and Liverpool, to get beyond any ordinary working person's ability to afford)
Want to talk about free passes? Duggan paid with his life, the police didn't pay at all, the British taxpayer paid Duggan's family the hush money, while bankers and property developers and speculators and politicians all continued cashing in at everyone else's expense.
The riots ended, people went home, the perpetrators were disproportionately punished, nothing meaningfully changed, the Thatcherite austerity continued, and what do you know the working British resident has only become closer to destitution.
This is what Tories do: pick everyone's pockets, sell off the nation's assets, then point at the nearest brown person or single mother, and ruin or outright end the lives of anyone that dares to take exception
Funny how Duggan's son has literally just been arrested on firearms charges too!
They always blame the police and never take responsibility for their own behaviour!
Strange how these riots never happen in Japan. I wonder what they do different over there? 🤔
"Economic factors"
@@user-bv8fr4to8kyeah. thats why people are like that
Have the brains to not storm the official residence of the president just because their favourite didn't get elected
Its because people in Japan and South Korea kill themselves when they're lives are horrible instead of rioting. Despite their lives being so much worse with way more school and work.
Must be all the hentai they have over there
The biggest surprise for me is since 2011 inequality has grown exponentially but no more riots...yet....
Society has gone soft since 2011 is my 2ps worth
All lives matter buddy🫡
muh inequality
@BurnerAckman As what's happened since then? Oh the BLM exec accused of stealing 10,000,000 USD, dirty infighting. Yeah real progressive!
Blacks always looking for a excuse to loot and riot
Remember that plum who robbed free Argos catalogues and got fined😂😂😂😂😂
I seem to remember a picture of a lad posing with a massive bag of Tesco value rice that he had nicked as well 😂
i've only recently dicovered this channel and now i'm hooked.
Welcome
same
I lived in Camden and was staying in the Lake District at the time. As a child it was terrifying, I came back to find out it had not only effected my city but my neighbourhood as well.
"Boris Johnson was mayor of London"
That tells me all I need to hear
Better than that British hating Muslim mayor
Your vids are quickly becoming my favourite explainer of British culture. Nice one
*London culture
@@SonofPhobos 👏🏻👏🏻 Fair point, good sir.
You say cuIture. I say paraIIelIsocîetys.
8:57 There should not be "communîtys" insîde a country. Only a sîngIe communîty.
But hey... for that ancient old truth people are called '-îst's' and '-ph0bes' nowadays and so this stuff will only escalate.
@@LawfulBasedYour humongous society come with bald heads and barcodes tattood on the back of them? Sounds like a dystopia. One society is definitely not a British thing. The North of Ireland has been divided for 800 years they didn't need other ethnicities, racism or homophobia to kill each other. And neither do people who batter each other over a football game. As a matter of fact anywhere the British historically went the caused division. Allot of it still there to this day. And even being British isn't really a thing most Scottish, Welsh and Irish don't consider themselves British.
@@dwg8084...The irish aren't british anyway. And the NI clearly do consider themselves british as they choose to stay
I was coming back from Spurs, a pre season friendly, with my three kids, walking. The crowd outside the cop shop were angry but it was mostly women and children. But as we passed by I saw down the side of the station a load of guys hooded up. I think they were waiting for the footie crowd to pass by. By the time we got home and I'd done dinner we turned on the telly and Tottenham High Street was ablaze. Was scary after that for a couple of days!
i was quite young when the riots happened, thankfully they didn’t affect me. we still learn about it in school and it’s crazy that everyone else in my class was there and had first hand experience from is shocking.
The reason why Turkish shops weren't looted was because the Turkish owners actually defended their stores against rioters, the 2011 England Riots version of the Roof Koreans but Turkish and without guns, respect from Romania.
It's intriguing to view the 2011 UK riots as an American. We've had a history of racial tensions. When I saw the riots on the news, I assumed it was a soccer/football riot that got out of hand. Racial issues have always been serious in the U.S. but I didn't think at the time the UK had similar issues.
Racism exists everywhere, underclass exists everywhere, imigrants to blame exists everywhere and people out to do as much harm as possible also sadly exists everywhere
It was nothing to do with it, it was just idiots looking for an excuse to rob and rob they did.
Racial tensions (as most things) are the same here but everyone isn't as loud about it. and like the recent American riots, a "racial" issue was used as an excuse to burn uninvolved peoples lives to the ground as reparations
It doesn't. Some sections of society whinge about racism but the reality is they also commit a lot of crimes.
It's weird how almost ten years later you would undergo a similar incident with the BLM riots of 2020.
Not completely identical but there are definitely comparisons to be made.
Absolutely love your videos. As an American we have no idea about any of the subcultures or historical stuff so KEEP IT UP WE LOVE IT!!
In fact in most cases no idea about anything outside of the lower 48.
Brilliant video mate I know this all takes a lot of time and energy to edit and film I respect the graft! Keep up the good work
should make a video on the race war in birmingham
Which one ?
I definitely won’t forget it, I remember feeling the heat from the flyover at Reeves corner furniture store as I was driving home from work.
Traditional media always being helpful
I lived in North West London and I was about 1 and a half years old at the start of this riot. I was too young to remember anything!
Your content is some of the best on TH-cam.
I was working late one night by East Croydon station when the riots were at their worst. Could see fire and smoke in the distance as I rounded the corner to go to the station and a pile of police officers, one asked me what I was doing. I said going home and I could feel his eyes watching me until I went through the barriers being of mixed race. Days later as I believe irpt was a Friday I came back and parts of Croydon were sealed off. I was glad to get out of there. Soke colleagues actually had a very scary night as routers and police were in the back gardens in houses just south of the town centre.
Thank you for making this nuff respect
I’m from Enfield and I vividly remember seeing a Sony centre on fire in Waltham Cross, I lived about 4/5 miles away from it. It was a scary time.
There was a status going round in Middlesbrough at the time saying "Boro: Too mint to riot".
It was scary watching it unfold though, especially for those of us with friends and family down there.
Jimmy you’re spoiling us with three uploads in three days 🙏 appreciate your hard work!
Really really good video, very informative and genuine. You have earned a new follower mate 👍🏻
I remember living in Milton Keynes on the night of the riots. Rumors of riots breaking out was all over Facebook. From a Toys R Us being on fire to an Argos being blown up.
The only thing I remember actually happening is someone threw a Watermelon at a Blockbuster.
🤣
This was so crazy. I had moved to London from Sweden like a week earlier for my then girlfriend. Whole town went crazy. My girlfriend forbade me from going outside until it was all over. We lived in Brixton at the time. I took a tour around town some days after, amazed by the damage.
It’s crazy to hear this, Sweden is now a real life war zone I remember when it was the best place to live at one point. The whole world is falling apart sadly
@@SnareProds Its really not.
Sure there are some dangerous gangs and the situation is bad, but the media really likes to blow things out of proportion. I live in one of these specially designated areas, sure there is some gang selling weed and one of them got shot like 4 years ago, but its not really so bad.
2 gangs in the Stockholm area are fighting each other that's driving up the murder statistics.
London for example was way worse when it came to feeling safe, visible crime and societal disorder in daily life.
@amensentis Your country literally has no go areas that attack Swedish ppl on site and gangs who use grenades. Stop talking.
Lol, like i said i literally live in one of these famous areas. Neither me or anyone else is getting attacked on sight, unless your some weirdo right wing journalist there to provoke said reaction.
Gangs are a big problem in recent years, but its still just extremely few individuals involved in it. They might have some big conflict every few years, but other then that they mostly just sell weed around the corners.
@@amensentiscope. Sweden speaks Arabic now
I remember I was playing outside with my brother and friend when building was burning. My mum called us in. We where watching the building on the TV burning. What makes this crazy is that we had to close our windows as smoke was coming into our house.
I still remember vividly, I'm in north-west london, don't think there were any riots but people were bricking it, shops were putting up riot-proof shields on their storefronts. Worst part for me, me and my mates had planned a weekend trip to the midlands to visit one of our mates, but this was the same weekend as the riots so the whole thing was quietly canned, I was so gutted
This was a great idea for a video. Amazing retro coverage
I moved to Tottenham area (from Slovakia) in September 2011 but I wasn't bothered by this situation because I was working in Greece the year before and they had riots on a daily basis (2010 Greek crisis) so I was kind of used to it at this point lol
Iv always wondered why do people leave there home country's for Tottenham. I dont mean it in a bad way, I know someone from a really nice place in italy and now lives in Tottenham and i cant understand it.
@@andrewwillis9759they want our money to enjoy it back home, simple really.
The year i moved out of london after having my house burgled and 2 month old car stolen watched the pub round the corner go up in flames good times lol .
Worst time to leave London investment wise
@@Tyy024 I will never borrow money of santic bankers who create money out of thin air and charge you interest lol. No thanks.
@@Tyy024 It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
― Henry Ford
@@Tyy024 It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
― Henry Ford
I remember the kids posing with asda value bags of pasta and videogames, a polish woman jumping out of a burning building 1st floor window, people getting mugged by other yardies and chavs as they crawled out of game with video games they just stole, a woman who was due to appear in the olympic opening ceremony was caught smashing a cop car etc.
Then the Asian, Turkish and Eastern European communities did a good job banding together to defend their homes and businesses. Driving home from central to South London, 10 miles through streatham and brixton and just seeing glass and smashed in shops everywhere was wild. I remember the west end being defended very heavily by the police, much more so than any other area of London, and the central areas near banks and such.
I remember when this happened. I was literally with my family in the area where Mark was shot 2 hours before the shooting happened and because I literally live in the area where it happened, it was truly a scary time, helicopters flying over our buildings, hearing glass breaking, people shouting.. it was truly crazy. We heard that people were burning down cars so we basically didn’t sleep for a few nights until the riots moved to a different area.
Another great video. Your videos are awesome man keep up the good work.
I lived in Croydon when all this went on. Went out with mates for the day to Morden, all this popped off and couldn't even get back home cause everything was just cut off. Was a madness walking through the highstreet next day, even the landlines for staff in currys were gone.
I was in Streatham and OMG people were just looting any shops. Driving from Colliers Wood to Elephant and castle the entire path was such a scary place and my car was several times banged with objects and I had to drive on the pavement to avoid abandoned cars.
That was so so surreal!
I believe the looting but not the protest was in the heads of the guys that destroyed the area.
Watched a few of them now and your videos are really well written/presented man. Keep it up.
I've been thinking about the riots quite a lot recently. Things in the UK are worse than ever: over reaching poverty, the state of the NHS, increasing inequality, political corruption, pretty much everything - and yet we haven't resorted to the riots of 2011. Why haven't we descended into such chaos again? Well the brutal attitude of the Director of Public Prosecutions at the time may have had an effect - first time offenders who stole bags of rice (and water) found themselves in prison. And who was that DPP? Kier Starmer, who had a tough and pragmatic response to the rioters, and who makes me a bit concerned about how he will perform as our future prime minister. But thank you for reminding me of Tariq Khan, a man who had the right to be vengeful, but instead asked for peace. And thank you for reminding me that police corruption and institutional racism still has a lot to answer for. Another excellent video. You've come a long way from the days of promoting Pakour videos.....
Institutionalised racism which can't be substantiated except against whites..
British people are traditionally very passive and moderate.
@@cerdic6586 I agree. But it may explain how we've ended up where we are at the moment.
Tory rule
my opinion is we have as a society become so hopeless we dont even see the point in a riot anymore. maybe im wrong but everyday i see people more and more apathetic....
I remember the when this happened. Everyday after play centre my gran would get us home early so we didn’t get caught in the chaos. It was definitely a scary time
We.
Were.
Never.
Asked.
about what
@@jameswatson5807About mass migration from the third world that's what.
@@salvatoremaglione6398 But you are not asked about a lot of things, like being apart of the EU.
War in Iraq war in Afghanistan and many other things.
@@salvatoremaglione6398 But the riots have nothing to do with modern mass migration, these are the descendants of people, just like my self who's.
Great grandparents or grandparents who came to the UK as British subjects, so for that era there is no need to ask.
But why is he putting that out there when the rioters are more than 90% white.
There are no afro Caribbean community in Liverpool, north Manchester, Salford yet there where rioters there the racists here.
Don't want to admit there own white are in the riots, I was there and I saw crazy white guys, just smashing up the place and not even stealing.
@@jameswatson5807 We’re talking about Muhammadans throwing acid into women and young children’s faces after committing sex offences.
Really insightful and objective analysis, really liked this.
I remember when this was happening just staying up all night watching the news coverage for days as it spread to the other cities
I remember working in Hammersmith and living in Lewisham. My work sent me home early because they thought it would kick off and trains would be off.
I thought the gaffer was overreacting, but f**k me, it went nuts!
I remember the week after they bought in police from the Welsh valleys to help the Met keep Lewisham under control 😂
Weird times man
There will 'never' be PEACE without JUSTICE.
Bro your videos are excellent 👌
Really cool to see how far youve come
I was 9 when the riots happened. I remember my mum driving me to my aunts house and seeing around 20 man rollerskate down the middle of Bromley Road in Catford which is a majour road, probbaly on their way to smash up JD. People quite literally went mad.
I remember these riots, slept at the station for a week, never been so exhausted, could barely hold my shield on the last nights. One of the first instances of miss misinformation used by bad actors and deliberately inflamed by the media i remember working against
Must have been bloody terrifying. Remember all those stories about police stations being under siege even up to the Midlands.
@ProfessorPesca I was a younger stupider man, only 21, and part of me found it exciting, kitting up with my mates deploying out of the shield van, we all volunteered for public order training its what we wanted to do. Then we suffered quite a serious casualtiy and it became very real very quickly.
At the time my mum worked for South West Wales Police (not an officer, she did transcribing). She told me that when the riots were starting to get out of hand and backup from the Welsh and Scottish police was requested, the Welsh officers who were assigned to London calmed the rioters down by playing football with them.
I dunno if this story was true or not, but its nice to think of it as true.
lol
Brilliant video and intelligent analysis! Well said!
This is what we need more of. Straight up facts. No biased false narrative story telling like you get in MSM.
Appreciate it - i try my best, i have my biases of course but ive learned from making videos to zoom out of scenarios and analyse from different perspectives
How was the MSM biased with this story besides first reporting the police's narrative v.s. the actual events.
@@charlesmiv3842 dude just watch the video? And if you still don't get it, just don't bother. It's pretty fucking simple mate.
@@mananzi9907So you can't support your argument at all lol.
@@charlesmiv3842 the video you're commenting on explains it for like ten minutes. If you need someone to write it out and explain it to you like a fucking toddler, then ask your mum or dad.
I ain't got the responsibility of teaching you the ability to listen.
The UK riots didn't come to an end because of any kind of empathy. I remember watching the news and on the day it was announced rubber and plastic bullets were authorised there wasn't any other riots at all, it ended in one day.
It’s not a long term solution if the root problem is still there ie institutional racism which the McPherson report labelled the met then it will happen again in the future
@@rice4550 mark was killed cause he was a gangster carrying a gun, if it was down to institutional racism we'd be seeing this kind of thing a lot more often
Brilliant video as usual 🏆
Outstanding video
Coming from Hackney,if you know especially around this time there was a lot of gang activity,the one thing I found that was surreal about the situation to me is that amongst the destruction for the first time in my life I saw gangs from all areas come together and not attack or kill each other granted it was rioting but that was a once in a lift time experience!!
During the 1992 LA riots, the Bloods and the Crips infamously made a truce called the “Watts Truce”.
The Watts Truce still has influence today, because the crime rate and murder rate of Los Angeles declined by a huge amount since then as a result.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend?! 🤔
I dont think the people who lost there businesses have forgotten !!
They would have had insurance.
@@afaxmachine5045 many acts of God happend that week...
Done by man
i remember just having turned 13, cycling through the middle of Tottenham when this was going on, buildings on fire left and right, truly awful.
I lived in London for all my life, went on my longest trip out of the country, a little under 4 months, at the beginning of August. Lived in a village, cut of from contact for most of it, only learned about the riots about 6 months after getting back.
Exciting times, especially because I was watching on the telly in a different country.
POV: you’ve been enriched
All ethnicities were rioting....
@@danielcunningham6727 let’s not act like it wasn’t largely a certain ethnicity
POV: you're a bigot who probably watches CP
POV: you're a bigot who loves CP
In London, your 'point' may be valid, but all the other cities it was mainly white English trying to get in on the chaos