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Three killed in UK riots defending their shop

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BBC said:
Three men have been run over and killed as they protected property in a second night of violence in Birmingham.
The men aged 31, 30 and 21 were hit by a car in Winson Green. They were taken to City Hospital where about 200 people from the Asian community gathered.
Witnesses said the men were in a group protecting their community after riot police were called into the city.


Police have arrested a 32-year-old man who is being questioned on suspicion of murder following the deaths.


West Midlands Police Chief Constable Chris Sims said the incident happened when a group of males had been gathered close to a petrol station in Dudley Road.


"At some point, and in circumstances that as yet I can't fully explain, a vehicle has been driven into that group of males, which tragically has led to three of those men losing their lives," he said.


All three were from the Asian Muslim community, he said.


Referring to the arrest he said: "He has been arrested for murder because the information that we have at the moment would support the idea the car was deliberately driven."


Tariq Jahan, whose son Haroon Jahan was killed, said he was nearby when it happened.


"My instinct was to help the three people, I did not know who they were but they had been injured.


"I was helping the first man and someone from behind told me my son was behind me.


"So I started CPR on my own son, my face was covered in blood, my hands were covered in blood.


"Why, why?"


He said his son, who was a mechanic, had been trying to protect the community as incidents were taking place elsewhere in the area. He said a petrol station along the road had been attacked.


"He was a very good lad, a good man starting at the beginning of his life and had his whole life ahead of him," he said.


"I've got no words to describe why he was taken and why this has happened and what's happening to the whole of England.


"It makes no sense why people are behaving in this way and taking the lives of three innocent people."


Witnesses to the incident said the three victims - two of them brothers - were part of a group protecting shops from looting.


Kabir Khan Isakhel said: "People came out of prayers [at a local mosque] and they were protecting the area.


"They were standing on the side of the road and the car just came and ran them over."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-14471405

Allegedly murdered for protecting their shop (a gas station) during the riots. I'm embarrassed to be of English descent right now.
 
Very sad...

OP, no need to feel ashamed b/c all elasticities are capable of the same evils. There is no monopoly on evil per ethnicity.
 
I was just thinking that everyone is relying on the police to save them when the whole community should stand up to the thugs in London. And I knew if people did protect their neighborhoods it could cause injuries but I was not thinking death was a possibility.
 
JimKiler said:
I was just thinking that everyone is relying on the police to save them when the whole community should stand up to the thugs in London. And I knew if people did protect their neighborhoods it could cause injuries but I was not thinking death was a possibility.
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Always is when you are going against criminals.

RIP young lads.
 
Maybe if they had guns instead of knives they might have been able to actually defend themselves. People in that country are so unbelievably stupid for allowing a criminal regime to take away their god given right to bear arms.... such a people deserve all the riots and looting they get. I just dont understand the mentality of victim disarmament zones.
 
"My instinct was to help the three people, I did not know who they were but they had been injured.
"I was helping the first man and someone from behind told me my son was behind me.
"So I started CPR on my own son, my face was covered in blood, my hands were covered in blood.
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Terrible 🙁

Hope they can get things in order soon.
 
Jaskalas said:
Perhaps he is thinking that in a civilized world the police would have stepped in and handled it long before it came to this.
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Are they not ? Didn't these riots really ramp up on Saturday ? Its been less than a week and they are talking about a "sobering" death toll of 4. In contrast, our 1992 LA riots lasted several days, and killed over 50 ppl.

On an emotional level, I agree with the sentiment, but really what would people like to see happen ?

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sm625 said:
Maybe if they had guns instead of knives they might have been able to actually defend themselves. People in that country are so unbelievably stupid for allowing a criminal regime to take away their god given right to bear arms.... such a people deserve all the riots and looting they get. I just dont understand the mentality of victim disarmament zones.
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"god given right to bear arms" are you delusional or just plain crazy? Where in the Bible is that right granted? It amazes me sometimes the gibberish people spout as if they really believe it.
 
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