It has been reported that more than 50 youths armed with knives and machetes ran into Elm Park Primary School's hall, in Havering, Essex, at around 9pm on Saturday.
Yes, Elm Park. I'm very familiar with it. It's my end of the District Line, after all. Not the place you'd expect the inner city diversity to be in great numbers, until you realise this was a birthday party. For diverse youth. The sort of thing that tends to blow up into just this sort of disorder.
The fighting allegedly lasted until 11pm before three teenagers were arrested on suspicion of assaulting emergency workers.
Only three?
Footage from the scene shows dozens of children fleeing the hall screaming, as individuals at the back of the room can be seen raising weapons above their heads.
'Individuals'...
One local resident told the Havering Daily: 'It was total chaos. We saw between 40-50 youths, running through the streets.
'We think they had knives as they were seen dropping weapons in people's drive ways and running away. They were attacking the police and there were so many of them that the police had to just disperse them. We couldn't believe what we saw. They were all aged 16 and over and they were not from here.
'Not from here' in more than one sense, of course.
'Our road is normally so quiet, things like this don't happen here. This is why we are all so shocked at what has happened.
'We saw the police running after the youths, but due to the large number of them, the only choice they had was to disperse them.
'Our road was closed off for ages due to this and we were told that a serious incident had happened.'
And it'll keep happening, thanks to the transport system that allows the diversity to reach the nicer places..
1 comment:
So they managed to arrest the few of them who attacked the coppers?
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