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Then in full riot gear, police attempted to herd those protesting against the Nazis out of the city centre towards Manningham. Afterwards the full weight of the state was used against those who had defended their community and city from racists.
Saturday night and Sunday morning : the 2001 Bradford Riot and beyond
They make an interesting comparison with the sentences given for a similar, although less reported disturbance, which occurred two nights later on a predominantly white estate in the city. The conclusion that many drew was that the different reaction of the courts to these two events was driven by racism.
Bujra and Pearce started the project that led to the publication of this book in By that point people had already been charged with riot and adults had been given custodial sentences that averaged over four years. A laudable aim perhaps, but the implicit postmodernist twang does not prevent the authors drawing their own, often unargued conclusions as we shall see later.
The authors did nearly 50 interviews about the riots, including with 21 men charged with riot and imprisoned at the time, and over 50 around the time of the EDL demo. It is very clear from the interviews of those charged with riot that they were defending themselves and their communities from the Nazis of the NF. They believed that the NF would attack people and property in Asian areas, as had happened in Oldham and Burnley. Known Nazis were in the town centre and had attacked and provoked violence and the police were complicit in this.
More than one rioter spoke of the police using racist language. As the authors highlight, there was a younger generation who were not prepared to accept the racism that their parents had experienced. It becomes clear that communication had broken down and tactical decisions were being made on the basis of rumour and speculation. The police found themselves at a strategic disadvantage after pushing the rioters out of the town centre: Given the recent prevalence of kettling in recent years, the comments of one officer are particularly relevant. He makes it clear that they should not have cordoned off the crowd in the square to begin with.
However, while the officers on duty may have been critical of their superiors they had no sympathy whatsoever for the rioters.
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Indeed one of the turning points on the day was when a young Asian man, Kasel Altaf, was attacked in the town centre. One police officer defends the ANL, blaming instead violent extremists-when asked for examples he cites not only the Socialist Workers Party but also the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament!
Indeed in piecing together the events of the day from different media reports together with interviews of those involved on all sides, this book provides a unique account of how the day unfolded, unavailable elsewhere. As such it is to be welcomed. Their evidence demonstrates that, even without police racism and the Nazis, there was plenty to riot about if you were young in Bradford in Some of those interviewed mentioned the lack of facilities and education. A survey in revealed that half of Pakistani and Bangladeshi households contained no one in full-time employment.
A time of riot: England and the world
On the outside they had been frustrated by a lack of opportunity, on the inside they were seething with a bitter hatred of the police and the far right. They felt as though they had been made idiots. The average age of the sentenced rioters was 24, and despite their anger at the system, the vast majority are now out of prison and have moved on with their lives. Their average re-offending rate is just six per cent, the national average is ten times that.
Many now work in family businesses in and around Bradford, while some have chosen youth work to try to shield the next generation from their mistakes. One jailed rioter, interviewed for the book in , said: Please enter your name.
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