Seemingly in sympathy with USA there are semi-violent protests ongoing in SE London with some enticement to riot as in the U.s.
Not really sure why we have it here when it's nothing to do with the UK .Maybe just an excuse to cause trouble.
I think the message is very relevant in America where this racist Policing is out of control (not a Trump thing.....it always has been )
You would have thought that with all the exposure of this blatant issue since Rodney King case etc that they would have got hold of this and rooted it out long ago .
You expect it to be more prevalent in the deep South Klan Country but it's actually Everywhere .
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I remember my Rock against Racism badges from that era. Probably popularised by the punk movement (with the occasional outlier punk group!).
Around the same time, stuff like the “black & white minstrels show” disappeared from TV too.
The appearance of players like a Cyrille Regis and Laurie Cunningham (there were more, but those are the ones that I remember) in First Division & England football teams - though they didn’t have it easy back then - also around that time.
Unless you’re complaining about all this foreign-influenced unrest being caused in the UK? Bloody foreigners making us go all rioty.
... although I did spot the spelling mistake.
Having worked alongside various police and former police officers there was obviously a bit of a seachange at some point when some of the old practices disappeared ( the endemic sexism, racism, homophobia, bottle of whiskey in the desk drawer) and similar for prison officers too.
My kids have certainly grown up in a culturally diverse environment, I think they are actually disappointed that MrsTheWeary and I don't do some blatantly racist stuff so they can fight against it.
Dont let's get sidetracked about how racism here has diminished or why the B and W minstrels got taken off air here in England ......the topic was simply what the hell has American rogue Policing got to do with Peckham any more than why aren't people also rioting here over rape in India , illegal detention in Ecuador or refugee camps in Sudan .
How is it our fault and what do they think we can do about it ?.......just seems strange
I do think that decent America has had just about their fill of this and State Governors will have to completely sanitise their Police or they are going to have huge Social unrest......and quite justifiably .I think this one will grow bigger than Rodney King especially with the Corona Frustrations and hardships in the background and imbecilic soundbites from Trump.
I doubt if the people in Peckham think they are going to change anything. But perhaps they are demonstrating a solidarity with the people in the USA which those people will find uplifting, perhaps they want to do something that makes them feel like they are doing something, perhaps they want to send a message to the Trump administration that the govt response is not seen as appropriate from afar and this is about an endemic problem within the forces of that administration and not about a few deviant individuals. That is a message the British govt ( lead by a failed foreign secretary) is unlikely to send of it's own volition so citizens feel the need to send that message themselves.
This one is especially great. Loot his pockets after kerb stomping him. Nice.