Word: brixton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kenneth Newman responded by seeking an additional 3,000 officers. A row on the subject has even erupted in the House of Commons, where Tory Backbencher Winston Churchill wants to ban violence and sex on television. Says Dr. Gillian Mezey, who has studied rape in London's riot-torn Brixton neighborhood: "In places like Brixton, where there are no jobs and terrible housing, women are just easy targets of aggression...
...official added that Rosen intends to take with him his optician's license and professional pianist's certificate of merit, and that he will open an eye shop in the corner of one of Brixton's seediest pubs...
...outrage that the police raid provoked among residents had a familiar ring. During the search of a black household in London's Brixton area last month, an officer shot a woman, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. That shooting touched off a night of riots...
...confronted the police after they had battered down her front door. Apparently fearing that the armed youth was inside, a police inspector fired a .38-cal. pistol. The shot struck the woman, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. As word of the shooting spread, crowds gathered outside the Brixton Road police station and began throwing gasoline bombs and bricks. Rampaging youths, some as young as 13, looted businesses, set fire to cars and poured oil on roadways. Reporters who arrived to cover the rioting were beaten. Two white women were raped. Later in the week, rioting broke...
British authorities refused to blame blacks as a group for causing the riots. Police Commander Alex Marnoch, whose district includes Brixton, charged that "the criminal and hooligan element took advantage of the situation for their own ends." That sober assessment might be applied to the authors of senseless violence in both countries...