Saturday, April 16, 2011

Heroes or anarchists? The 1981 Brixton riots are now being hailed by the Left as a heroic uprising. The truth is rather different

Heroes or anarchists? The 1981 Brixton riots are now being hailed by the Left as a heroic uprising. The truth is rather different | Mail Online

Young Asians fought running battles with police for three days, in Brixton, with many injuries on both sides and a whole heap of damage done both to personal and public items and equipment.The Police and the mainly unemployed West Indian community had never seen eye to eye and there were no race relations organisations in the area or anywhere else in the country for that matter. Houses were continually raided and the number of stop and search incidents involving black youths was higher than for any other group.Indeed Operation Swamp, a sus law stop and search mission, was happening during that very weekend in which things boiled over. It was a clampdown along ethnic lines which erupted into a bloody conflict over the Easter Weekend in 1981.
These riots were the forerunner of riots which occurred all over England culminating in the Tottenham Broadwater Farm Estate riots where a young PC., Kenneth Blakelock was hacked to death in 1985.
The Scarman Report was commissioned to look at the subjects of ethnic tension in the inner cities.

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