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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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AlecTrevelyan006 · 18/07/2024 22:34

OhHelloMiss · 18/07/2024 22:30

Overspill of anger from losing the Euro game

I very much doubt that

Some very high quality videos of 2x people attempting to set fire to a bus: (seems somebody was successful eventually)

https://x.com/I_Dont_Know_Her/status/1814040227432034311

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https://x.com/I_Dont_Know_Her/status/1814040227432034311

FinalCeleryScheme · 18/07/2024 22:32

RosesAndHellebores · 18/07/2024 22:04

Poverty, dissatisfaction, drugs, no hope.

TBH, I think it’s got a lot more to do with it being the summer.

A good cloudburst would send them all home.

frankincenseandoranges · 18/07/2024 22:32

Horrible. I feel so sad and scared seeing how easily people behave violently, including children! And all the young men mindlessly following the violence holding their phones up to film everything. Braindead.

BiscuityBoyle · 18/07/2024 22:31

SidekickSylvia · 18/07/2024 22:30

Do they just want to make their environment much worse than it already is? Because surely that's the only consequence of rioting.

This is the thing though isn’t it. There is no thought. No result. No focus. All they are doing is making it all shittier than it was.

OhHelloMiss · 18/07/2024 22:31

Seems misplaced if it allegedly over kids safety

OhHelloMiss · 18/07/2024 22:30

Overspill of anger from losing the Euro game

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OrangeFurever · 18/07/2024 22:30

BiscuityBoyle · 18/07/2024 22:21

There is very clear footage online of a bloke stood holding a lighter to the seat on the bus. Also a man with a lighter on the engine.

People who do stupid shit like this, what do they want? What is their end game?

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How shit for the people in the area who rely on public transport. How sad for the kids in the area to see this outside their windows, terrified to sleep.

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SidekickSylvia · 18/07/2024 22:30

Do they just want to make their environment much worse than it already is? Because surely that's the only consequence of rioting.

Mamtorr · 18/07/2024 22:28

Cantgetausername87 · 18/07/2024 22:28

Where is everyone seeing these reports? Sky news and BBC are only reporting on the damaged police car. I hope nobody is hurt

TikTok and X

Cantgetausername87 · 18/07/2024 22:28

Where is everyone seeing these reports? Sky news and BBC are only reporting on the damaged police car. I hope nobody is hurt

DickEmery · 18/07/2024 22:27

Runbunny · 18/07/2024 22:13

The city is rioting because children were removed from a neglectful family?

Not a whole city. The good people of, eg Roundhay, would never riot. They have no cause to. But there are little pockets in every city that are pretty lawless now. A school near us issued guidance to staff about how they had to deal with a couple of 14 yos who have been charged with knifing a local dealer - they have to keep them on the school roll as they've not been found guilty and there's nowhere else for them to go. But these kids are dangerous.

People in poor areas are under a lot of strain. Think about how stressful day to day life in the UK is now - everything is expensive, nothing works. Now think how that looks if you've got no money.

BiscuityBoyle · 18/07/2024 22:21

Chickenuggetsticks · 18/07/2024 22:19

I really hope people are identified and charged. It’s not acceptable.

There is very clear footage online of a bloke stood holding a lighter to the seat on the bus. Also a man with a lighter on the engine.

People who do stupid shit like this, what do they want? What is their end game?

Chickenuggetsticks · 18/07/2024 22:19

I really hope people are identified and charged. It’s not acceptable.

Obeseandashamed · 18/07/2024 22:17

I've had to drive via that area when working at the hospital nearby. It is awful!!! The whole strip is based in different sections of ethnicities each in quite clear gangs. It's not somewhere you want to have to drive through in the early hours of the morning. It's also never ever quiet. Even at 3am there are people sat on the streets and huddled together in crowds.

Namechangencncnc · 18/07/2024 22:17

Harehills is a really problematic area. Intense poverty, drug issues rife, serious social problems.

ApolloandDaphne · 18/07/2024 22:16

@BiscuityBoyle It's not really near the street where she lives. She has just walked back from her book club and saw no trouble at all.

BiscuityBoyle · 18/07/2024 22:14

ApolloandDaphne · 18/07/2024 22:06

My DD lives in Harehills. Her boyfriend took this picture. I think it is very isolated. As a retired SW I can confirm it can be terrifying removing a child from a violent and unpredictable family.

You must be so worried for her.

I just hope this doesn’t spread.

Runbunny · 18/07/2024 22:13

The city is rioting because children were removed from a neglectful family?

DickEmery · 18/07/2024 22:11

RosesAndHellebores · 18/07/2024 22:04

Poverty, dissatisfaction, drugs, no hope.

Yep, and left-behind children.

There's a whole section of teenagers who were supposed to go to secondary school in 2020/21, but schools and holiday clubs closed down. Some of them were on social services radar but dropped off as no home visits. A fair chunk of them never made it back to full time school attendance in any meaningful sense, some of that chunk are now runners and involved in other gang activities. At the other end of the age scale, kids who were 14/15 at the time schools/social services shut down, never went back, and are now 18/19 yo young men and women (but mostly men), unsocialised, half their education missing, and violent.

TorturedPoetDepartment · 18/07/2024 22:10

Shreddedpolitics · 18/07/2024 22:08

Supporting the family??! They’re beneath contempt.

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Oh absolutely, the cheers at the blowing up bus really made that clear! Hope the kids are far, far away

Shreddedpolitics · 18/07/2024 22:08

TorturedPoetDepartment · 18/07/2024 22:02

Watching the burning bus right now, hope the driver is OK! It's like the Purge and I don't see how this is 'supporting the family' at all, which is what the Tiktokers are claiming

Supporting the family??! They’re beneath contempt.

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.

ApolloandDaphne · 18/07/2024 22:06

My DD lives in Harehills. Her boyfriend took this picture. I think it is very isolated. As a retired SW I can confirm it can be terrifying removing a child from a violent and unpredictable family.

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RosesAndHellebores · 18/07/2024 22:04

Poverty, dissatisfaction, drugs, no hope.

BiscuityBoyle · 18/07/2024 22:04

TorturedPoetDepartment · 18/07/2024 22:02

Watching the burning bus right now, hope the driver is OK! It's like the Purge and I don't see how this is 'supporting the family' at all, which is what the Tiktokers are claiming

There Often seems to be people waiting for any excuse to smash shit up and riot.

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