Posted on 08/09/2011 11:00:03 AM PDT by markomalley
Shops and homes in an upmarket area of south London were protected from rioters by a human barricade as residents and workers across the capital were forced to defend themselves.
Locals in Clapham Junction, Dalston and Whitechapel took to the streets and faced down the mob on Monday night after realising that police were too over-stretched to help.
In south London, officers were nowhere to be seen as shopfronts were smashed in St John’s Road, Clapham Junction.
But the gangs of youths were prevented from carrying on their rampage south into Northcote Road, site of restaurants - specialist food stores and boutiques - by locals who guarded the top of the street from a branch of Nando’s to the Northcote pub.
A core of 20 people gathered at the junction, with up to 50 at some points, from just after 9pm until close to 11pm.
John Comyn, who has lived in the area all his life, said: “Most people I spoke to were local and couldn't believe what was happening. No one wanted to venture down St John's Road but we weren't going to let them ruin our street.
“From then on, when anyone came towards us we told them to go back, there wasn't anything for them down here. It was fairly spontaneous but the group formed a line across the end of the road.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
If the police want to shut down riots, use an LRAD. I’m amazed that the entire UK doesn’t have just one.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMyY3_dmrM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F7bvhllDeI
Of course, there’s also the Silly Walks...
I’m really glad to hear that!
Every time I see one of those masks, I feel a sort of red tide rising up behind my eyes...
Good luck to you and stay safe!
I have one of those. I call it my lateral cranial impact enhancer.
Thank you! I’m forwarding the page to my thoroughly modern daughter.
Send your friends my regards from Texas.
I’ll do that...
That's all right. So am I ...
... and I always got to bat second in the line up because I could hit behind the runner and was fast enough to beat the throw to first ...
You need to reread the post ,he is talking about the shopkeepers standing guard to protect what they work for not the hoodlums.
I read it completely wrong. Too quick on the keyboard...
Apologies RTH, I will try to do better in the future.
No apologies needed... I thought I probably didn’t make my point clear enough but thanks to Nebr FAL owner for clarifying.
Brits in centuries past used bows and arrows, swords, boiling oil even. Plus they use catapults.
I gues castle defensiveness has become a lost art.
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