Birmingham Riots 2011 | How it all began...

FILM: Just days after the London riots in Tottenham, violent rioting and disturbances take place in Birmingham city centre following tensions created by rumours of gangs and a heavy police presence. Similar riots also emerge in the city's Lozells and Handsworth areas as well as across the UK in Liverpool, Bristol and additional disurbances in London's boroughs of Hackney, Clapham and Ealing.

LOCATION: Birmingham City Centre
DATE: Monday 8th August, 2011

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• Riot
• Riots
• Birmingham City Centre
• Central Birmingham
• Attacks
• Vandalism
• Violence
• Riot Police
• Police
• West Midlands Police
• CyberCandy
• McDonalds
• Disturbance
• UK
• England
• #BrumRiots
• #BirminghamRiots
• Hooligans
• 8th August
• 2011
• Winson Green

[xnecrophagousx]

"Police being heavy handed"... They ran up the road about 10 yards.. NOOOOOO.

[apick34]

y are people blaming the police. i think they shud have more rights when it comes to this. englands only gonna get worse cus evry kid noes they can get away with it!!!!

[alamirkhuram]

Shut up, these kids weren't employed before either. It's just an excuse. 

[AudiQ7V8]

0:32 Fatboy?

[brianbrzozka]

good job fking blacks,almost all people on this video are black , thats a fact...

[ShadezDemon88]

all the dudes you interviewed sound gay Lol

[Pancher71]

The fat twat at about 6.18: the Police don't really have a choice as to the ideology behind a bunch of cunts acting big. Ask coppers from the miners' strike, who had family on the picket lines.

They have to uphold the law. Their job.

The twat looks like Matt Lucas's hypnotist.

[Pancher71]

@xnecrophagousx Those BRUTAL Police, jogging up Bull Street. Horrendous. It's like Tianenmen Square all over again.

[Vekta2]

fucking jokes, peoples like that are the reason why society is so fucked now a day, especially the youth which seems to not give a shit about what their doing! (yes in only 22) so i'm also in that youth realm but i don't do stupid crap like that!

[TallPoe]

pls excuse the freeform grammar, i'm tired

[TallPoe]

But then I think the whole financial recession/depression is contrived to cull ppl. ppl like me. And the police are just following orders of some freemason on the force type, and are being misinformed after only seeing the worst of us. This riot did not help.

[TallPoe]

Science rather than banking nerds fighting over who has the most sweeties. Problem is they are all herded like cattle into the finance industry and funds rarely go anywhere other than to profiteer. We've all had enough.