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posted by [identity profile] sigisgrim.livejournal.com at 11:21am on 09/08/2011
Violence in Birmingham is a bit alarming

It certainly is. It kicked off here before I left work to go home last night. Thankfully I didn't know that at the time. I'm sitting here in central Birmingham feeling slightly scared, wanting to go home and unable to really concentrate on stuff.


Regarding the causes I feel that the criminal aspects have overwhelmed the genuine reasons of the initial uprising. From what I can tell (mostly BBC news reports and Twitter) it's descended into people looting shops for consumer goods, booze and money.

At the moment I think it'll happen again this evening, but probably fizzle out on Wednesday: it's due to rain then apparently.

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