What’s going on in Leeds?

Why is it kicking off?

Some children were taken from their home for safeguarding reasons (I won’t say why, as there are conflicting reports and I don’t want to spread incorrect rumours) and the local community didn’t like it.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=leeds+riots+-+why%3F

Start of the summer holidays, kids are already climbing the walls and burning buses! (generalisation based joke)

We were about due another one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots_in_Leeds

Unfortunate advert on one of the buses being trashed with “book an open day” at one of Leed’s universities.

Harehills can be a little volatile at times.  I used to work there many years ago and alongside folk from Harehills, lovely people and very friendly.  They are proud of their community but like anywhere a few idiots kick off and it hits the press once again.

Unfortunate advert on one of the buses being trashed with “book an open day” at one of Leed’s universities.

My daughter is at Leeds and I suggest she creates a mock university prospectus with this on the cover and leave copies around campus, maybe picture Armley jail as student accomodation.

When they said it was Harehills on the news I assumed they were just showing stock footage of previous riots, but no all new apparently.

@fooman thanks for sharing.

Massive yawn.

I’m sat in the garden drinking beer. LS8

I’m sat in the garden drinking beer.

I was, after some bike fettling and a barbecue. Now in bed. LS26

Went out for a nice pub lunch in town, then home. LS1, to LS27

Probably heading into Leeds tomorrow – number 36 bus into Leeds

Nice walk by the canal and a few beers + some lovely food.

Always very pleasant.

p20 has tonsillitis in NW Leeds

Same thing that happens with every ‘riot’ i’ve seen or been around, something kicks off, the local idiots take it to another level, then outside idiots come running to cause carnage as well, from what i saw online it was all races, predominantly youngsters causing the real damage, locals were out trying to minimise it.

Not really read up on the outcome, but in past events, i’ve seen the usual ‘looting’ occur, and put local people’s livelihoods out of business.

Here’s footage of a couple of the children being dragged away. They are obviously not being cooperative and it’s not a pleasant sight. You can understand people witnessing that scene happening right in front of them getting angry, especially as it’s a community which historically has faced a lot of persecution including from state authorities.

https://x.com/DillyHussain88/status/1814217032730071366

I wouldn’t claim that taking the children into care wasn’t the right decision, hopefully it was fully justified, but they are distressing scenes and it obviously wasn’t a case of a few bored youngest deciding to have a riot.

The reason there is a reference to them being Christian is because Stephen Lennon is currently spreading the lie among his supporters that the situation involved Muslims.

I cannot believe how sensitive to the Roma community this Daily Mail article is. They are the one ethic group that everyone seems to think are fair game.

And yet the Daily Mail is prepared to emphasise that they are victims, rather than foreign criminals as Nigel Farage would have us believe

The removal of the children has sparked concerns about underlying prejudice against Roma communities. The ethnic minority group, who are widely subjected to discrimination and poverty across Europe, make up some 5,000 people in the area.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13653951/leeds-roma-crowd-chants-children-family-home.html

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I cannot believe how sensitive to the Roma community this Daily Mail article is. They are the one ethic group that everyone seems to think are fair game.

It’s dog whistling disguised as concerned hand wringing. They know they can’t get away with Farage / Lennon style racism, so they pretend to be fair. They’re not.

So getting yourself in trouble for inflicting a head injury on a baby is some sort of justification for a riot?

Strange moral compass operating in that neighborhood

It’s dog whistling disguised as concerned hand wringing.

That’s quite an achievement! I hadn’t realised such a thing was possible. It must leave their readers very confused.

Harehills is one of, if not the most depraved areas in leeds. I don’t know it personaly, but I know a guy who lives there and he spends no time in public or socialising in the area, he’s either going home to his house or going out of his house out of the area.

It certainly has a ‘reputation’.

Would it be possible for a group of people to topple a police car if it was an EV? The extra 500kg in the battery should make it harder.

It’s dog whistling disguised as concerned hand wringing.
That’s quite an achievement! I hadn’t realised such a thing was possible. It must leave their readers very confused.

It’s certainly got me confused! I did get a warning on here, after I mentioned several local Roma families who were forced out of the official traveller site by a new group of Irish travellers who persecuted them. I consider that something of an irony, seeing as how the Irish Travellers see themselves as hard done by…

Harehills is one of, if not the most depraved areas in leeds.

A few years ago I had to go to StJames’s hospital every month for a course of treatment and it’s just on the edge of Harehills in fact I used to drive up Harehills road to get to it. Always loads of folk on that road and fair to say probably 99% non-white faces, shop fronts of many different nationalities including an Asian bakery that always looked to me like it sold some nice food. OH used to come with me in case I had a reaction and couldn’t drive back home and one time decided she would fill in time by having a walk to the bakery to get something nice.

Afterwards she told me she had no trouble from anyone except a couple of white “smackheads” who tried to hassle her for money. At the bakery she got chatting to the girl behind the counter and said she had walked from the hospital. Girl was shocked and said “If you come again don’t walk down here, drive and park outside.”!

I used to live between Chapeltown and Harehills (Harehills Avenue for those who know). Amazingly diverse part of the city, never once had any trouble although there was the odd drug-related shooting / stabbing.

Everyone is really proud of the community round there so there must be more to the story than the media are letting on.

It’s just a “thing” the locals do on a hot summer night around those parts, look it up, every couple of years for as long as I can remember. If it had been raining nothing would have happened, honest.

Also worth bearing in mind that it takes a court order or sign off from a senior police officer to remove a child. It’s not like a social worker needs something to do of an afternoon.

hare hills has always been rough, i had a friend live there, my brother parked outside the front door (circa 2000), friend came down and asked where he’d parked, straight outside was the wrong answer. it was half way round the corner with teens attempting to hotwire it..

I live about half a mile from Harehills. Yes it’s a poor area however it ain’t the toughest in Leeds by some stretch. In fact it does have some good stuff going for it – it’s very culturally diverse and everything that brings with it. There are some really good places to eat if you know where to look and it does have a good community spirit generally

A lot (not all) of the *serious* crime that goes on there seems to be drug/gang related

The worst places in Leeds IMO are the white trash sink estates like Halton.

I’d way, way rather live in Harehills.

Romanian fella been arrested for torching the bus. Guess where he was arrested??? Yep, waiting for a bus…

FWIW, I attended a careers fair at a school in Harehills last year and the kids and (almost) all the parents were absolutely delightful to chat with.

Regarding the riot itself, there is no way it should have escalated to that point. If only we’d not had massive cuts to our police force and we could have mustered more than a handful of coppers in a panda car to go and face hundreds of rioters and then be chased away… Any civilised or even non-civilised country would have been able to send a hundred policemen in there, properly equipped to disperse that crowd and make arrests. The police need to become a respected and yes, in cases like that, feared, entity again.

we could have mustered more than a handful of coppers in a panda car

Panda car?

Romanian fella been arrested for torching the bus.

He’s in for a big surprise when he finds out he’s likely going to be sentenced to 3 or 4 years or possibly longer as it can go up to 10 years depending on what you did. Torching a bus = deep poo.