Originally Posted by
Max
My parents lived around there at the time of them.
You could go through certain roots as the streets like Lodge Lane were blocked off and loads of looting. Dad said people were offering free tv's though but he never took one!
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Old buildings that were no longer there either were burned down!
I don't know, it's possible it could happen again. Wasn't part of the riots started because of Racism though and not just high prices?
Toxteth has had some regeneration but it's still crap around there. Especially as Dingles next to it.
The district the riots were in is Granby. Penny Lane is actually in Toxteth too.
The riots were initially thought a race riot but only one third of the rioters were black or coloured. It was an anti-police/poverty riot. The police stopped it by shooting one of the rioters. They used CS gas shot gun cartridges and aimed them directly at the rioters. These cartridges were meant for siege situations, to fire into rooms where they would hit the wall and release the CS gas. The police “acted stupid” and used these cartridges to shoot the rioters. The cartridge boxes clearly stated “do not use in a riot situation”. They said they didn’t know – as if. They blasted out the chest of one kid. They ran over and killed one crippled kid who had nothing to do with the riots. He was too slow to get away.
Nice police force we have.
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