Interesting Happenings In Harehills

[hackey lad]

29 minutes ago, peak4 said:

Why do some people quote so selectively, without providing a direct link to the newspaper's report?

In this case The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/19/how-unrest-in-leeds-escalated-and-was-defused-harehills
Could it be that the rest of the article doesn't fit the narrative required?
e.g. the previous and subsequent sentences to the one quoted above.

"At about midnight, local residents began gathering water from nearby houses in buckets and wheelie bins to reduce the bus blaze to smouldering embers.

The crowd briefly moved about 50 metres down the road and cheers could be heard as a young man, Mohammed, did backflips to entertain those gathered and defuse any remaining heat. People played music on their phones.

As the flames subsided, Ali told the Guardian: “Harehills is like a rainbow of flavours. You’ve got every colour, every creed, we’re all in a melting pot together. And we get on with this.

“We’re not the richest people on the planet. We are poor people. But we’re all in it together.

They’re bringing water in wheelie bins to put a fire out on a burning bus. That’s community spirit, that’s Harehills.”

Interview here with the councillor; before anyone starts on about Owen Jones, please concentrate on the interviewee, rather than the interviewer.

 

All we ever hear is , the community coming together, community leaders are doing this and that . What did they do to stop this happening  ? 

[RollingJ]

Take from @peak4's post above - intentionally only this snippet : 'Why do some people quote so selectively',  The answer is obvious - because all sides do it, including the media, when it suits them

[Baz1]

33 minutes ago, peak4 said:

Why do some people quote so selectively, without providing a direct link to the newspaper's report?In this case The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/19/how-unrest-in-leeds-escalated-and-was-defused-harehills
community spirit, that’s Harehills.”
 

Well, reading the full article,  I was shocked to learn that this wasn't the first Harehills riot- apparently they had one back in 2001.

 

26 cars burnt, 100s involved and usual innocent people seeing damage to businesses. 

 

Was Muhammad around then too? May be he did front flips back then 🤔 

[Al Bundy]

3 minutes ago, Baz1 said:

Well, reading the full article,  I was shocked to learn that this wasn't the first Harehills riot- apparently they had one back in 2001.

 

26 cars burnt, 100s involved and usual innocent people seeing damage to businesses. 

 

Was Muhammad around then too? May be he did front flips back then 🤔 

But according to the Guardian, apparently it's a rainbow of flavours!!

 

A rainbow of flavours!!!!😂😂😂😂😂

 

Brilliant.

[Al Bundy]

10 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

All we ever hear is , the community coming together, community leaders are doing this and that . What did they do to stop this happening  ? 

Backflips.

[Delbow]

31 minutes ago, Resident said:

 

Seriously, you should stop commenting. Your low IQ is showing. 

 

Lol. Amazing comeback from someone who has run out of road and has accidentally fallen into moral relativism - the extreme end of multicultural thinking.

[Top4719]

8 hours ago, Al Bundy said:

But according to the Guardian, apparently it's a rainbow of flavours!!

 

A rainbow of flavours!!!!😂😂😂😂😂

 

Brilliant.

 

I can guarentee the writer of that Guardian article has never been anywhere near Harehills or anywhere like it.

 

I'm guessing this incident like the recent but lesser one on Woodbourne Rd will be kicked down the road until it's forgotten and the main perpetrators get away scot free.

 

As an aside the police response to this was absolutely pathetic, embarrassing, two tier policing is alive and well.

 

Can I ask what the response would have been from the resident lefties had the authorities left these children with the family and one had been more seriously injured or killed?

 

What will the authorities now do to protect children if mob rule is to prevail?

[Mister M]

8 minutes ago, Top4719 said:

 

I can guarentee the writer of that Guardian article has never been anywhere near Harehills or anywhere like it.

 

I'm guessing this incident like the recent but lesser one on Woodbourne Rd will be kicked down the road until it's forgotten and the main perpetrators get away scot free.

 

As an aside the police response to this was absolutely pathetic, embarrassing, two tier policing is alive and well.

 

Can I ask what the response would have been from the resident lefties had the authorities left these children with the family and one had been more seriously injured or killed?

 

What will the authorities now do to protect children if mob rule is to prevail?

Isn't the internet wonderful to enable misinformed people to become more knowledgeable:

 

 

Edited July 20 by Mister M

[Top4719]

7 minutes ago, Mister M said:

Isn't the internet wonderful to enable misinformed people to become more knowledgeable:

 

 

 

Based in Leeds doesn't mean he's overly familar with Harehills, would someone based in Dore have full knowledge of Page Hall?

[peak4]

1 minute ago, Mister M said:

Isn't the internet wonderful to enable misinformed people to become more knowledgeable:

 

 

Indeed, and what can "The Resident Lefties" possibly know about the details of an individual child protection case?
Scot Free?? Some arrest have already been made, and the incident was widely filmed and shown on social media, as well as being videoed by the police, so expect more arrests to follow.
Custodial sentences might be a problem at the moment though.
The council however do seem to be reviewing the case, though they may well take the view that the actions take were correct and proportionate;
Leeds council conducting 'urgent review' of 'family matter' that appeared to spark riots as home secretary condemns 'audacious criminality'  Sky