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Disorder in Leeds

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OrangeFurever · 18/07/2024 21:53

Anyone watching the public disorder in Leeds? Bloody disgusting behaviour. Animals. AIBU to wish police had so many more resources to bring consequences to these absolute excuses for humanity?

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OhHelloMiss · 18/07/2024 23:01

Bud is burning out, no fire brigade, no police

It's just younger people stood watching and filming. Nothing happening

AShortName · 18/07/2024 23:01

OhHelloMiss · 18/07/2024 22:59

There's no rioting

Half of Leeds is out rubbernecking

There's a bud on fire and a police car turned over

Nothing else is going on

I think that’s enough 🤨 disgusting behaviour

LuluBlakey1 · 18/07/2024 23:00

The Guardian online isn't reporting it at all

serialcatbuyer · 18/07/2024 23:00

Your post reads to me like the children were removed because of an altercation with the police. Is that how you meant it ?

PoliteCritic · 18/07/2024 22:59

Whistledown1005 · 18/07/2024 22:58

I don't get it. Surely the community wants these children to be safe. They wouldn't take the kids away for no small reason

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There can be a real distrust iof authorities. And those who thought the children should have been taken away will be too scared to say that.

OhHelloMiss · 18/07/2024 22:59

There's no rioting

Half of Leeds is out rubbernecking

There's a bud on fire and a police car turned over

Nothing else is going on

Zebedee999 · 18/07/2024 22:58

RosesAndHellebores · 18/07/2024 22:04

Poverty, dissatisfaction, drugs, no hope.

How ridiculous. You literally have no idea what the facts of the incident are or the reasons for the disorder are, yet you've already made your mind up. Astonishing!

Whistledown1005 · 18/07/2024 22:58

Nchanged89 · 18/07/2024 22:06

It's really bad, it's not the greatest area of Leeds it's happening in. The story I've seen also on social media is Social Services have intervened and taken some kids and the community has turned on them. I forsee it going on for hours.

I don't get it. Surely the community wants these children to be safe. They wouldn't take the kids away for no small reason

cakeorwine · 18/07/2024 22:58

Scenicgirl · 18/07/2024 22:50

Sorry if facing up to reality offends you.
My opinion and judging from comments made in the newspapers, I'm not alone.

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Having lived and worked in that area, I can assure you that many people in that area were born in England. There are also people who have emigrated there. Harehills is a very diverse area.

I am not sure how you can tell if someone was born in England or if they emigrated over here.

Runbunny · 18/07/2024 22:57

Towelmode · 18/07/2024 22:54

When people are treated like shit, they complain.

Is it treating people like shit to remove vulnerable dc?

Oh come on, that might have been the trigger, but you don't honestly think that's what this about?

AlecTrevelyan006 · 18/07/2024 22:57

Rioting isn’t perhaps the best way to demonstrate that your kids are being brought up in a safe and secure environment.

PoliteCritic · 18/07/2024 22:57

Towelmode · 18/07/2024 22:54

When people are treated like shit, they complain.

Is it treating people like shit to remove vulnerable dc?

It is not about that. That incident was simply a trigger.
I am not condoning the violence and I really feel for decent people living in the houses where this is happening. But I also think this kind of thing is inevitable.

Pleasebeafleabite · 18/07/2024 22:56

AlecTrevelyan006 · 18/07/2024 22:50

They are lucky lesbian nana isn’t on shift tonight, or they would be in the shit.

That was my first thought as well Grin

2ndMrsdeWinter · 18/07/2024 22:55

Scenicgirl · 18/07/2024 22:50

Sorry if facing up to reality offends you.
My opinion and judging from comments made in the newspapers, I'm not alone.

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Just because others share your same opinion, and it’s written in black and white in a newspaper, doesn’t make it fact or not racist.

ilovesooty · 18/07/2024 22:55

Runbunny · 18/07/2024 22:51

Yes, I'm shocked at the responses form some here deriding the idea that this is caused by poverty, neglect, dissatisfaction.

This is exactly why looking after the most vulnerable is a mark of civilisation.

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Agreed.

I worked in the area and nearby for years and have friends who live there.

Towelmode · 18/07/2024 22:54

When people are treated like shit, they complain.

Is it treating people like shit to remove vulnerable dc?

PoliteCritic · 18/07/2024 22:53

When people are treated like shit, they complain. If you are middle class you contact your MP and lawyer. If you are poor, low educated, and no one listens to you, you riot. Usually when the weather is warmer.

MiscellaneousSupportHuman · 18/07/2024 22:52

justasking111 · 18/07/2024 22:51

Spoke to son and partner tonight she works in Leeds, they both went to university there. Since covid lockdowns lifted and life went back to normal things have been simmering in Leeds. Harehill is one area, there are others.

Female students are being sexually assaulted in areas they could once walk in safety.

There's growing gang problems, some have more money than others. It's ugly.

Which areas are they?

SunshinDay · 18/07/2024 22:52

Well apparently sw have gone into a home to remove vulnerable dc? I

Runbunny · 18/07/2024 22:51

bluejelly · 18/07/2024 22:49

'A riot is the language of the unheard' - Martin Luther King.

Yes, I'm shocked at the responses form some here deriding the idea that this is caused by poverty, neglect, dissatisfaction.

This is exactly why looking after the most vulnerable is a mark of civilisation.

justasking111 · 18/07/2024 22:51

Spoke to son and partner tonight she works in Leeds, they both went to university there. Since covid lockdowns lifted and life went back to normal things have been simmering in Leeds. Harehill is one area, there are others.

Female students are being sexually assaulted in areas they could once walk in safety.

There's growing gang problems, some have more money than others. It's ugly.

Scenicgirl · 18/07/2024 22:50

SomethingHasTo · 18/07/2024 22:46

@Scenicgirl, did you stop to consider how your post might come across when you wrote it?

Sorry if facing up to reality offends you.
My opinion and judging from comments made in the newspapers, I'm not alone.

AlecTrevelyan006 · 18/07/2024 22:50

They are lucky lesbian nana isn’t on shift tonight, or they would be in the shit.

SomethingHasTo · 18/07/2024 22:50

Thanks @bluejelly, I haven't come across that quote before.

bluejelly · 18/07/2024 22:49

'A riot is the language of the unheard' - Martin Luther King.

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