Just disgraceful! I suggest mass deportation for all convicted criminals, born in UK or not.

I have lived in east london all my life and have experianced direct abuse and been attacked on more that one ocasion whilst walking through Dalston by black women. On one ocasion in the past, I was on a train (NLLL) coming from Hackney Wick and going to Dalston on a busy Sunday afternoon in August and was attacked by a black woman because I wanted to sit down next to her and asked her to move her baby's push chair, she refused and she through a McDonalds drink in my face and we started to fight, when I got to Dalston I got off the train and faught her on the platform. I was not going to be threttened or intimidated by anyone regardless of their colour or culture. I do believe some black people in our society really do think that society owes them something, more than any one else. The point I am making is that there are stigma attatched to different members of the community we live in, if people react and act out those stigma, discrimination will always provale. Stigam dircrimination is rife in our society. But to act in an unjustified way and annihilate out local community through looting is not the way to respond, in the name of social deprovation. This initally started in Tottenham when a man was shot by police last week and the local community came out on the streets. In my persional opinion if we want a fair and democratic responce to this situation, this is not the way for out community to act. I am a working class white woman and I as most working class people in society are have financial difficualty in the present economic climit. I can appreciate the point being mad about parts of london net feeling the pressures of financial difficulty and also not experiancing the looting as these areas are protected. This just emphosises the devide between the society we live in financially...

Of course there are underlying causes, but common sense should rule over senseless behavior. Because you are poor or underprivileged, does this mean you should let your children roam the streets, riot, steal, and boast about it on camera? Is there no shame among the parents? Or don't these children have parents? Are there no churchgoers living in London? Has faith and prayer gone out of the window in these times of need? And before anyone asks 'what has the church ever done for us', turn the question back on yourselves. What have you done for yourselves or others, or are you still sitting on your laurels waiting for government help? How many displaced people have you opened your doors to? How many groups have you helped to form and cook at the weekend for people who are hungry or homeless. Many hands make light work and my advice is "BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE".

Times are hard I agree, but much more can be achieved if people form groups and work with each other instead of seeking to be better than each other.

There are still many opportunities in London, but from the news I'm getting, many of the young have become accustomed to having there own way and therefore have chosen the wrong path, or want to take the easy-get rich quick path and that shows in them carrying 'Pioneer' equipment out of stores. I haven't seen many people robbing Tesco's of food products. There is a saying that 'if you live by the sword, you die by the sword'. I would say Mark Duggan was an intelligent young man by the sounds of it, but seems to have chosen to carry an banned weapon, to be involved in drugs, and to run with gangs. Why? Does this go back to his parenting? Does his parents skills of teaching him the right way go back to the area from which they came in their home country? Is poverty really the route cause? Or is it bad discipline, greed and envy?

Be careful when giving a child 'the best of everything' and making sure they 'want for nothing', because in the quest to give a child everything you never had, you quite often teach him/her that he is better than someone else or is 'entitled' to things which he/she has not worked for.

What black people in the UK need is a leader, we have no one who can speak out on our behalf.With all the chaos around us and people voicing different opinions as to 'why'our youths are running riot in the community, we need someone who can narrow down the 'whys'and face the politicians and tell them what's is making our youths so mad.

We need to get this meesage across to the Police 'stop intimidating Black men' enough is enough, but the burning question is Who can we
trust to speak on our behalf.

British police are the best in the world,they have made a couple of mistake but who hasn't , successive government have systematically erroded the power of this police , ..criminals are not punished enough and there is no visible deterrent in sight to stop criminals , even when they are caught , they go scot free after a couple of months ..hence we have this trouble today . it did not start last week ?but began 20 years .
The government has also that taken parental power of discipline away from parents through the social services ,hence we have the kids controlling the streets.
Finally this is not a race issue ..
AT THE STAGE PLEASE CALL IN THE NIGERIAN RIOT POLICE ,they will clean this mess up , completely disgrace to UK

http://www.blacknet.co.uk/UK/UK/inner-city-youth-violence-more-casualtie...

that is just the tip of the iceberg in underlying causes. we have been here before, every generation is raised on the usual police brutality and intimidation. anger and fear is rife. coupled with unemployment, cuts, and you get riots. are we really that surprised?

its shame the violence has escalated to this because it detracts from the real issue. and it is giving the media a chance to call us agressive on the front page which is unacceptable.

Excuse me if I'm a bit confused but if you throw a stone at someone even if they are a police officer(not that that makes it OK) then that is assault and if you get hit with a baton then maybe you should have thought before throwing the stone.
THE YOUTH IN THIS COUNTRY BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE THE WRONGED PARTY BUT THAT GIVES THEM NO RIGHT TO ASSAULT AND INTIMIDATE ORDINARY WORK A DAY PEOPLE WHO PAY TAXES WHICH ARE THEN WASTED CLEANING UP AFTER THEIR FERAL ACTIVITIES
CHIP THEM OR SEND THEM TO A BOOT CAMP BIT THIS HAS TO STOP. ALSO ANY PARENT WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHERE THEIR CHILD IS DURING THIS UNREST NEEDS TO CHECK WHETHER THEY ARE FIT TO BE PARENTS. MY CHILDREN+GRANDCHILDREN ARE WHERE THEY SHOULD BE----AT HOME.
WHERE ARE YOUR CHILDREN TONIGHT????????

Shocking that a youngster would throw a stone at police officers -- what kind of low standards, debased morality would justify retaliating against that? Seriously, throw a stone at police, expect to be punished. Simple. No excuses.

Your poll doesn't indicate the extent to which Voice readers agreed with your headline above. You didn't see anyone from Buckhamingham Palace or Chelsea looting, only from deprived areas. As, a black newspaper I would think that would have been an intuitive conclusion to draw. Of course, a bandwagon effect played a part in the riots but to say there are no underlying causes is ridiculous.

And, stop recyling lines I've read similiar sentences in several of your articles. Lol is it for SEO purposes?