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Originally Posted by Daywolf
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And dealing with it doesn't mean like what happened in Britain when the occupy movement arrived there. I remember watching the riots (via videos) as they burnt down their neighborhoods. These two girls in their early 20's standing outside a small family owned furniture shop being burnt down as the girls screamed "down with the 1% !!!" *face palm*.
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Did the England Riots really get reported as the Occupy Movement coming to Britain?
That's not really representative of what happened.
The riots actually began in London as a protest against the police shooting of a local man. The violence turned to looting and got so out of hand that the police couldn't do much about it. Slowly, as news got out, copycat riots began to spring up everywhere with every piece of trash deciding they wanted in on the chaos/action.
There were "down with the 1%" demonstrations in the UK, but these were peaceful sit ins, by enlarge. Just because a minority were parroting slogans from the Occupy Movement during the riots, doesn't mean the riots were Occupy Movement riots.
It was a bunch of bored youths that resented authority deciding to have a mischief night and vent their frustration.