Posted on 03/01/2018 5:24:28 PM PST by SJackson
Parts of London are in a state of emergency after a spate of stabbings. Cuts to services have fractured community cohesion
t 11pm last Tuesday, I said goodnight to a friend outside a pub in Kentish Town in north-west London. By the time we both got home – about a mile in distance – each of us had passed a murder scene: four young men were stabbed that evening, in at least three different locations. Two of them died.
At the police cordon by the junction of the nearby Islip and Bartholomew Road and the Peckwater estate, a large group of Somali women spoke anxiously into their phones. It felt like so many of the scenes we’ve seen in London over the past year: a shocked community coming together from different backgrounds to deal with tragedy. A young boy, now known to be Abdikarim Hassan, 17, had been fatally stabbed outside a corner shop.
There was further trauma to come. News spread first of another stabbing in King’s Cross – a 16-year-old boy who escaped with his life – and then the killing of Sadiq Aadam, 20, in Camden. Word got round on Snapchat and Facebook as plugged-in teenagers told each other to stay home.
'It feels so close to home': spate of stabbings unnerves London teenagers Read more Sadiq was the third member of his family to be killed by knife crime; his brother was killed before Christmas. These deaths hit a community already reeling from the ”wrong place, wrong time” murder of local rapper, Lewis Blackman (aka ‘Dotz’), 19, who was killed in Kensington last Sunday.
How has this situation come about? It’s easy to jump to conclusions in emergencies, and tempting to blame cuts to local authority funding.
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No one should be allowed to purchase a knife in London under the age of 21. Aren’t there knife free zones?
And men to round up on female heresay.
Sounds like the ibn Hatfields vs. the ibn McCoys.
Amish woodcarving knives no doubt.
Britain Sucks Balls
Hey Britain! You hooligan bastards.
Need little Patriot ‘elp!!
The British police are too busy harassing Paul Golding, Jada Fransen and Tommy Robinson to do their jobs.
Also, things that are blunt are banned, and things that are heavy are banned, and things that are blunt AND heavy are RIGHT OUT AS WELL!!!
Well, lets see... that about cover it then???
There is the possibility that Abdul was stabbed by an olde Enland soccer gang. But, I doubt it.
The real men of the UK need to man up! Crickets...
They need to ban sharp sticks, rocks, all useful hardware such as screwdrivers, all metal implements, everthing flamable, any training in martial arts, etc. /do I really need the sarc tag?
Plastic sporks are the answer.
Conclusion first, then analysis.
Isn’t that what they use in prisons?
Yeah, I am thinking that Seraphima doesn’t want to mention that.
Nice bunch of people you have imported, England.
Disarm those who follow the law. Keep passing more restrictions on law-abiding citizens until criminals stop breaking the law. Makes sense to me. I wonder why this isn’t working.
Send them O.J. Simpson. He’s good with knives...
There and KFC!
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