Thanks for the thoughts and well wishes Dana
I was a bit young when the L.A riots happened but i'll look it up and see what you had to go through. I bet it was much different, as Stu said, it's kind of pointless. All started out because a guy pulled out a gun in London around police and they shot him and he died. I don't know the full story but i do know that if you pull out a gun infront a of cop, it's not going to end well for you. To put it into perspective, our cops don't carry guns, we have special ARV cops (Armed response vehicles) that drive around in red police cars instead of silver (i have a an ARV cop that lives in my street, makes me feel kinda safer
) and they don't patrol the streets in the same way - as in walking around with a gun on the, they are usualyly driving on patrol but most of the time they are actually called out for a reason, which make you think that for them to have been there, something was happeneing. So anyway, no one will really know what happened but quite rightly the friends and family and locals held a peaceful protest at the police station of the force where it happened and then out of nowhere all these rioters appeared. They took advantage of the situation and used it as an excuse. Most fo the rioters are young people with no jobs, they're bored, don't have much money (other than what the government gives them from the tax we pay
) and quite frankly - they know we've turned into a soft country, so they know there aren't any serious conseqeunces for their actions. if a cop was to beat one down they would sue and the cop would get fired. ridiculous. these rioters are getting fined tiny amounts of money compared to the damage they've done and the money from the fines coes from either selling the stuff they just sold or the government benefits. it's just awful. i think the government really are just as bad as these rioters on how kid gloves they are being with everyone. there are people jumping out of burning buildings and the cops are told they are not allowed to even use rubber bullets, when there are scenes on the TV of cops having bricks thrown at them, they just have to stand there. My opinion is that if you throw a brick at a cop, they inherit the right to beat the bejesus out of you. This country really has gone to sh*t! Anyway, rant over
the riots appear to be dying down, but i doubt it's the last of them. too many bored people out there knowing that they can't be given a clip round the ear for doing bad, so they'll do it again. what's so messed up is that they weren't rioting for a reason - just for fun. so many videos of people breaking into shops and stealing random things like rice and sunny delight. wtf is that about! Gladly it appears that no one on here has been affected so far, i know theres about 3 people in London on this forum, so lets hope it stays that way