Awful scenes from the summer riot in Middlesbrough

Yearbyred said:
Appalling reading that.

Mostly locals smashing up their own town and attacking their own people. Disgusting.
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I remember at the time the right wing trolls on here were claiming they were riot-tourists shipped in from around the country and not locals..said with absolute authority on here…they were wrong, it’s our own dumb racist scrotes that were doing it
 
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BoroMart said:
I remember at the time the right wing trolls on here were claiming they were riot-tourists shipped in from around the country and not oocals..said with absolute authority on here…they were wrong, it’s our own dumb racist scrotes that were doing it
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There were some outsiders involved, there was a guy that phoned LBC and said he had come from Essex to be involved, but the report says the vast majority of those arrested lived within 3 miles of the riots.
 
A shameful manifestation of the easy racism that has long bubbled under the nation's surface for many years but which was unleashed by the mainstreaming of naked racism that became normalised a decade or so ago and really took off in 2016. The 'foreigners go home' messages - shouted and painted - the day after the brexit vote led inexorably to this.
 
I don't condone any of the rioters and their behaviour in the Summer it was totally unacceptable, but the Middlesbrough area has always been prone to bouts of violence. Wasn't there race riots in the Cannon Street area in the 1950s with smashed windows in houses? I don't know if people were hurt but it was nasty. My granny told me there were running battles in the streets in 1926 at the time of the General Strike. The battles were between strikers and police and probably strike breakers. An uncle told me she was knocked unconscious in a fight outside a Middlesbrough pub that was described by her as a riot. She rarely went in pubs and was a regular chapel goer. Across the river Tees in 1931 there was even a battle in Stockton, when Blackshirts attempted to preach and recruit on the High Street and clashed with communists. One Blackshirt lost an eye from a razor blade and many people were hospitalised.
 
There were small groups of out of towners at every protest encouraging locals to get more aggressive but they mostly disappeared when it turned into rioting. It may have been planned that way with the same groups going from town to town on different days. That doesn’t excuse any locals though. We have more than our fair share of racist thugs who were all too eager to join in.
 
The riots were racist in origin - and the Starmer/Liebour agenda added with the lies about the origin of the scum who murdered those poor 3 girls just fuelled them
 
TeessideCleveland said:
The riots were racist in origin - and the Starmer/Liebour agenda added with the lies about the origin of the scum who murdered those poor 3 girls just fuelled them
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Absolute utter rubbish - repeat that again on here and you are banned.
Disgusting that someone should be still peddling this complete lie as if it is some kind of justification.
 
Redwurzel said:
I don't condone any of the rioters and their behaviour in the Summer it was totally unacceptable, but the Middlesbrough area has always been prone to bouts of violence. Wasn't there race riots in the Cannon Street area in the 1950s with smashed windows in houses? I don't know if people were hurt but it was nasty. My granny told me there were running battles in the streets in 1926 at the time of the General Strike. The battles were between strikers and police and probably strike breakers. An uncle told me she was knocked unconscious in a fight outside a Middlesbrough pub that was described by her as a riot. She rarely went in pubs and was a regular chapel goer. Across the river Tees in 1931 there was even a battle in Stockton, when Blackshirts attempted to preach and recruit on the High Street and clashed with communists. One Blackshirt lost an eye from a razor blade and many people were hospitalised.
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Cannon Street riots - probably result of rumours spreading - false rumours - so certainly has something in common with the recent riots.
People described how it just spread like a wild fire - ended up as a battle with the police it seems. And a lot of alcohol fuelled vandalism etc.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Absolute utter rubbish - repeat that again on here and you are banned.
Disgusting that someone should be still peddling this complete lie as if it is some kind of justification.
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I’m not sure you have read my post correctly- but there were zero justification for the riots
Lies and rumours fuelled them
You are threatening to ban me for saying exactly the same thing as you
 
fmttmadmin said:
Absolute utter rubbish - repeat that again on here and you are banned.
Disgusting that someone should be still peddling this complete lie as if it is some kind of justification.
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The anti Starmer anti Labour lies were disgusting and peddled by those who were against the election result - and are now having their pathetic ‘petition’ for an election
The person who killed those poor girls was wrongly said to be of different origin to the truth by racists
That’s ‘clarification’ of what I meant
 
fmttmadmin said:
Absolute utter rubbish - repeat that again on here and you are banned.
Disgusting that someone should be still peddling this complete lie as if it is some kind of justification.
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I think you might want to revisit that post again Rob and speak with @TeessideCleveland. I feel you owe him an apology.

@TeessideCleveland is one of the better posters on this board and not someone I would describe as racist. If anything, I would say he is the total opposite. I know he's got a lot on his plate at the moment and uses this board for support from others.
 
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