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	Brixton - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Brixton is a vibrant inner London suburb 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south of Charing Cross and is the unofficial "capital" of the Jamaican and Caribbean community of London.
		Brixton was the scene of anti-police riots in April 1981 and September 1985.
		Although the Brixton area subsequently saw pioneering community policing initiatives, the continued death of young fl men in police custody (and in one case the death of a man holding a gun-shaped cigarette lighter) coupled with general distrust of the police led to smaller scale protests through the 1990s.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Brixton (1711 words)

	Metropolitan Police History
		The 1768 Wilkes riots (caused by attempts to prevent the electorate choosing their own MP) led to a Parliamentary Committee re-examining Fielding's "Plan of Police", and the Gordon Riots about Catholic emancipation led to the Bow Street office and Newgate prison being set on fire.
		The "Bloody Sunday" riot on 13th November 1887 resulted in the Riot Act being read when the Square was subject to a mass occupation by the unemployed.
		The 1981 Brixton riots were followed by the Scarman report which had immense importance for police and community relations.
	www.met.police.uk /history/archives.htm (2899 words)

	Brixton - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brixton is a vibrant inner London suburb 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south of Charing Cross and is the unofficial "capital" of the Jamaican community of London.
		Brixton was the scene of race riots in April 1981 and September 1985.
		Although the Brixton area subsequently saw pioneering community policing initiatives, the continued death of young fl men in police custody (and in one case the death of a man wielding what appeared to be a gun) coupled with general distrust of the police led to smaller scale protests through the 1990s.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Brixton (957 words)

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		The Brixton riot of April 11, 1981 was the most serious riot in London, UK, of the 20th century.
		Brixton in south London was an area of deep social and economic problems — high unemployment, high crime, poor housing, no amenities — in a predominantly fl community
		The riot resulted in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries; over a hundred vehicles were burned, including 56 police vehicles; almost 150 buildings were damaged, with thirty burned.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Brixton_riot_(1981) (579 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brixton is an area of South London, England, part of the London Borough of Lambeth.
		Brixton is an inner London suburb 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south of Charing Cross and is the unofficial capital of the Jamaican and Caribbean community of London.
		A brief mention of Brixton is made in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (1924).
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Brixton (2178 words)

	CNN.com - Race riots not new to Britain - July 10, 2001
		Though different incidents sparked each riot in 1985, they arose from similar social conditions: complaints of racial discrimination, poverty, unemployment and dilapidated housing, and hostile relations between the police and the community -- all conditions being blamed for much of the violence this year.
		The violence in Birmingham prompted "copycat riots" in the West Midland areas of Coventry and Wolverhampton, and the St. Paul's district of Bristol in the west of England.
		The heavy policing operation blamed for the 1985 riots was also said to be the cause of serious disorder in the Brixton inner city area of London in 1981.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/UK/07/09/riot.timeline (989 words)

	West Indians in Britian
		Riots followed in the summer of 1981 in such cities as Liverpool and Manchester; most notorious were the Brixton Riots of 1981.
		In his report on the Brixton Riots of 1981, former judge Lord Leslie George Scarman had recommended better policing policies and an engaged social policy to improve the conditions of fls in Great Britain and prevent racial conflict; but little had been done in the four years since the report was published.
		Riots continued to occur in Great Britain in the 1990s as British society and successive governments continued their uneasy accommodation with the legacy of British colonialism, the realities of a multicultural society, and the persistence of racism and economic injustice.
	shs.westport.k12.ct.us /chia/Caribbean/handouts/Exile/wi_in_britian.htm (4939 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 28 \| 1985: Riots in Brixton after police shooting
		Riots have broken out on the streets of south London after a woman was shot and seriously injured in a house search.
		Armed officers raided a house in Brixton early this morning looking for a man in connection with a robbery.
		Dozens of officers dressed in riot gear were injured as they were attacked by groups of mainly fl youths with bricks and wooden stakes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/28/newsid_2540000/2540397.stm (436 words)

	Handsworth riots (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The two Handsworth riots occurred in the Handsworth suburb of Birmingham England during the summers of 1981 and 1985.
		The riots were allegedy caused by heavy-handed policing and drug-related problems in this inner city suburb, fueled by a nationwide wave of uprisings in the wake of the April 1981 Brixton riot.
		The second riot was witnessed by Bronx graffiti artists Brim and Goldie, who documented the devastation in the Channel 4 documentary Bombing.
	encyclopedia.vestigatio.com /Handsworth_riots (305 words)

	Chronology
		Riots in Brixton and Tottenham break out on successive weekends in response to the killing of local women by police.
		PC Blakelock is killed during rioting on the Broadwater Farm estate and the Brixton disturbances extend across Lambeth and into Peckham.
		Rioting in Brixton follows the umpteenth murder of a fl man in police custody.
	www.geocities.com /londonriots/chronology.html (927 words)

	Brixton
		Brixton is an area of South London, England, part of the London Borough of Lambeth.
		Brixton is an inner London suburb 3.3 miles (5.3 km) south of Charing Cross and is the unofficial capital of the Jamaican and Caribbean community of London.
		Brixton also has a windmill built in 1816, and surrounded by houses built soon after, as London expanded.
	www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=100210 (2264 words)

	Alfredo M. Bonanno: From Riot to Insurrection
		The best the most updated ones can offer, using the riots as their point of reference, is to create a specific movement of anarchists with the aim of instilling some revolutionary morality into these patently amoral events.
		Or to try moving these spontaneous riot situations in an effective insurrectional direction capable of attacking not just the included, who remain with in their Teutonic castle, but also the actual mechanism that is cutting out language.
		When riots break out we should not be there as visitors to a spectacular event, and because in any case, we are anarchists and the event fills us with satisfaction.
	www.geocities.com /insurrection_raven/en_texts/from_riot_to_insurrection.html (9710 words)

	I Predict A Riot - Exclusive to Bravo
		From the first explosive sparks of the 1981 Brixton riots, through Toxteth, Handsworth and Broadwater Farm, to the latest inner-city unrest of Brixton in '95 and Leeds in 2001, we show how ill-considered police tactics provoke violent urban meltdown.
		Brixton 2001 (triggered by the fatal shooting by police of a man they mistakenly believed had been brandishing a gun).
		Brixton Revisited in 1995 (fl man dies in police custody, leading to rioting by both fl and white men)
	www.bravo.co.uk /IPAR/episode_1.html (192 words)

	Timeline 1985
		1985 Jul 12, Lance Cpl. Suzanne Marie Collins (b.1966) was raped, murdered and mutilated near the Naval Air Station base at Millington, Tenn. Sedley Alley was convicted for the murder in 1987 and sentenced to death.
		1985 Dr. Richard F. Marsh (d.1997 at 58) observed that the disease mink spongiform encephalopathy was very similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), and that food supplement made from cattle and fed to the minks was probably the route of disease transmission.
		1985 In Nicaragua the 3,000 acre cotton ranch of Enrique Bolanos was expropriated by the Sandinistas.
	timelines.ws /20thcent/1985.HTML (13100 words)

	Race riot Summary
		A race riot or racial riot is an outbreak of violent civil unrest in which race is a key factor.
		Such riots often reflect anger among racial minority groups that are regarded as socio-economically deprived, and often such anger is directed at law enforcement agencies who are perceived to unfairly target these racial groups.
		Racial profiling, police brutality, institutional racism, urban renewal, and racial identity politics are often cited as causes of these riots, although many have argued that these riots tend not to follow any sort of political logic but rather represent spontaneous violent outbursts.
	www.bookrags.com /Race_riot (1246 words)

	Atlanta Race Riot - Search.com
		The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 was a mass civil disturbance in Atlanta, Georgia, USA which began the evening of September 22nd and lasted until September 25th.
		The riot was sparked by unsubstantiated rumours of fl men attacking white women.
		The riot was reported in newspapers around the world but has not been taught in schools in the United States, and those who died have not been officially commemorated.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Race_riot (336 words)

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		Brixton Race Riots: In late August and early September of 1958, Britain experienced some of the worst race violence the country had ever seen.
		Race Riots of 1985: A series of disturbances between white police officers and young fls occurred in London and Birmingham in the summer and autumn of 1985.
		The most severe riot of 1985 occurred at the Broadwater Farm Estate public housing development in the Tottenham district of London.
	students.westport.k12.ct.us /raceriots1/Overview.htm (1735 words)

	Black In Britain B References - find things here
		The town, which is the capital of the London Borough of Lambeth, became synonymous with Black Britain after civil disturbances in the early 80s - The Brixton Riot.
		Rioting was centred around the Railton Road and Atlantic Road areas of central Brixton - known at the time as the 'frontline'.
		Word of her motiveless shooting which resulted in her being paralysed from the waist down, spread along Brixton's then 'frontline' Railton Road, the upshot of which saw several days of running battles with the police, looting and burning.
	www.blackinbritain.co.uk /b.htm (672 words)

	Guardian \| Blunkett and Bradford
		The Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981 and the Brixton riot of 1985 all bear comparison with Bradford.
		The judicial approach to rioting was very different in the 1980s: petrol-bombers and looters were sentenced severely, but stone-throwers were generally dealt with in the magistrates' courts.
		After the 1981 riots, one rioter, convicted of manslaughter, was given seven years.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4497017-103683,00.html (562 words)

	1985
		1985 Jun 15, In St. Petersburg, Russia, a middle-aged Lithuanian man pulled out a knife and slashed the stomach and thigh of the nude woman, Danaë, depicted in the Rembrandt masterpiece “Danae.” He then hurled a jar of acid at the picture and splashed a militiaman in the face.
		1985 Nov 28, Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis celebrated Thanksgiving with a dinner of irradiated turkey and freeze-dried vegetables, and launched a satellite from the cargo bay.
		1985 Dec 26, Dian Fossey (53), zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), was murdered in Rwanda.
	www.shelbyjackman.com /school/timeline/1985.HTML (10592 words)

	The history of the 121 Centre, a squatted community anarchist centre on 124 Railton Road, Brixton, London SE24
		The incident marked the beginning of a build-up of police strength and a confrontation began which erupted into violence on Saturday afternoon when a fl youth was arrested outside a minicab office.
		The build-up of tension which exploded on Saturday evening in the heart of Brixton began on Friday afternoon, when a police car patrol spotted a young fl wandering along Railton Road with a stab wound in his back.
		The young man was taken off in a van by uniformed police and missiles thrown at the van broke some of its windows.
	www.urban75.org /brixton/features/riots.html (1074 words)

	London Riot Re-enactment Society
		Having read their Rules of Association it appears that the London Riot Re-enactment Society may not be eligible to join the National Association of Re-enactment Societies.
		If, for example, you are involved in a re-enactment of the Gordon riots and you are very good at acting drunk for days on end, then feel free to just drink water, but if you think that only gin will do the trick, then drink gin, and we won't ask where you got it from.
		Riots are usually associated with urban life, but it doesn't have to be that way.
	c8.com /anathematician/lrrs.htm (1793 words)

	Anti-terror raids could spark riots, says police chief
		Anti-terror raids could spark rioting unless police maintain a strong relationship with the Muslim community, according to a senior officer.
		The October 1985 riot at Broadwater Farm in Tottenham, north London, in which Pc Keith Blakelock was murdered, erupted after a fl woman, Cynthia Jarrett, died during a police raid on her home.
		Rioting in Brixton, south London, in September 1985 was triggered by the shooting of another fl woman, Cherry Groce, by police in her home.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/june2006/250606raids.htm (593 words)

	BBC - 1Xtra - Black History Month - 1985
		Riots broke out in the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, triggered by the death of Cynthia Jarrett.
		PC Blakelock was murdered during the riot by a machete-wielding gang.
		The Brixton riots broke out after police accidentally shot and injured a suspect's mother in her own bed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /1xtra/bhm05/years/1985.shtml (602 words)

	Bash The Rich: True-Life Confessions Of An Anarchist In The UK :: AK Press
		From the inner city riots of 1981 to the miners' strike and beyond, the butler's son and founder of Class War was indeed a greater thorn in Margaret Thatcher's side than the useless blatherings of the Official Opposition.
		It was Bone who The People spotted rioting with miners in Mansfield, attacking laboratories with the Animal Liberation Front, and who was fingered by the Guardian as the man behind the 1985 Brixton Riot.
		from 1965 to 1985, from Swansea to Cardiff and London the mayhem spread countrywide.
	www.akpress.org /2007/items/bashtherich (305 words)

	Metropolitan Police Service - History of the Metropolitan Police Service
		Major riot at Notting Hill Carnival, in which more than 400 officers and civilian staff were injured.
		Brixton Riots involve the Metropolitan Police in the largest civil disturbance this century.
		Tottenham Riots (also known as 'Broadwater Farm' riot) result in the murder of PC Keith Blakelock.
	www.met.police.uk /history/timeline1970-1989.htm (498 words)

	JKD Street Combat - online
		Her time in office will be remembered for the number of riots, police brutality and the
		The look of fear in the eyes of the police as bricks were thrown at them and cars were petrol bombed.
		The Brixton riot started not because of a single mistake.
	www.jkdstreetcombat.co.uk /blog (1729 words)

	Bash The Rich - Softback
		From the inner city riots of 1981 to the miners' strike and beyond the butler's son and founder of Class War was indeed a greater thorn in Margaret Thatcher's side than the useless blatherings of the Official Opposition.
		It was Bone who "The People" spotted rioting with miners in Mansfield, attacking laboratories with the Animal Liberation Front and being fingered by the "Guardian" as the man behind the 1985 Brixton Riot.
		from 1965 to 1985, from Swansea to Cardiff and London the mayhem spread countrywide.
	www.nakedguides.co.uk /btr_sb.htm (377 words)

	Sean Bryson's Download Page BNP Information.ZIP & PDF UK Asylum Tenancy Agreement Gulf War
		Winner of US Mensa Award for Excellence, 1985 and 1988, for work on intelligence.Published works - 1966 Attention, Arousal and the Orientation Reaction.
		Brixton - Riots, Police on standby - 21 July 2001
		Oldham - Riots, youth worker Ashid Ali blames NF
	www.seanbryson.com /articles/dlod.html (1888 words)

	Crime Punishment and Protest Through Time
		One of her first acts was to give the police a pay rise before she started clamping down on trades unions.
		However 1981 will be known for its long hot summer of riots, starting with Brixton in South London in April, and followed in July by Southall in West London, Toxteth in Liverpool, Moss Side in Manchester and finally St. Paul's in Bristol in December.
		Theft and robbery, Poverty, Police, Transportation, Prisons, Luddites, Swing Riots, Tolpuddle, Rebecca, Chartism, Prison Reformers, Dock Strike........more
	www.learnhistory.org.uk /cpp/1900.htm (349 words)

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