stokes croft riot ?

On the 21st of April 2011, more than 150 riot police occupied the streets of stokes croft. Nobody seemed quite sure why. ...

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• riot police
• stokes croft
• prsc
• squatters
• tesco
• boycott tesco
• tescos
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[PRSCdotORGdotUK]

I know! That tax payers comment is nearly as funny as what he says about the police chaos when the room he's in is such a mess. Gotta love em.

This is katy by the way - not chris

[rudetoddboy]

i fucking hate TESCO....

[TheAstroturfer]

@loxlie Yes, I'm interested to find out the truth too. The Chief of A&S Police was on BBC Radio Bristol this morning and he said they had intelligence of Petrol and Petrol Bombs "in the squat" Presumably this is what the security guard - who had expressed violent dislike of alternative types - reported, even though it would appear was an individual on a different building. Also interested to know - why so many police, so quickly yet not one fire engine to address a reported fire bomb threat?

[loxlie]

@TheAstroturfer Yeah, I accept that (and sorry I misquoted Chris - that quote should indeed be "thinking there were Molotov cocktails IN HERE and there weren't" - it's said quietly and I genuinely missed it). But I pointed this out not to accuse the squatters but because I've read many reports claiming or presuming the whole petrol bomb aspect was just a rumour, and this shows that - even if it happened on top of the building next door - it still happened. The more truth the better, I say.

[TheAstroturfer]

@loxlie Listen from 4:30 for context: Those talking say a man WAS attempting to make molotov cocktails, BUT clearly stated this was NOT IN THE SQUAT. The bomb-maker was someone they did not know - "don't even know who he is" - who was on the roof of ANOTHER building (presumably adjacent), a building which WASN'T being squatted "it's their place." The "rumour" the police "turned up on" was that molotov cocktails were being made IN Telegraphic Heights BY squatters. According to this, they weren't.

[MrGasheadnaboo]

Soap dodging sponging fucks.

Worse than Pikeys.

[loxlie]

Thank you. The first decent video I've seen covering the riots. It shows there were indeed petrol bombs being made in the squat, unambiguously stated by the squatter at 5:00, though Chris inexplicably says at 5:20 "Oh so they've all turned up on a rumour, thinking there were Molotov cocktails and there weren't." (A more comforting narrative being plucked out the air right there.) Since the entire event was, according to the police, instigated by that incident, that's pretty damn important.

[Majalotbf]

Complaining about the taxpayers having to pay for it. Jesus Christ....

[mikeot]

Excellent Chris. Having been on the street for almost 2 full nights in the past two weeks, I can say there are some very apt and credible observations made by some of the people you talked to. I think the comments form the guys in the squat stand up and sound very plausible. I'll be interested to find out who was finally arrested in squat on Friday morning, how long they had been living there, and where they are from. My money is on the fact they were "new" occupants.

[iisemma]

Best insight to what I experienced that night yet. I live opposite the tele heights. Cheers Chalkley. Pillar as usual, ur work is massively appreciated xxx