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Encyclopedia > Toxteth riots

The Toxteth riots of July 1981 arose out of long-standing tensions between police and the black community in inner-city Liverpool, following on from the Brixton riots earlier in the year. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Northwest England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary. ...


The Merseyside police had a bad reputation for stopping and searching black youths under the infamous 'sus' laws. The heavy-handed arrest of Leroy Alphonse Cooper on Friday 3 July, watched by an angry crowd, led to a disturbance in which three policemen were injured. Over the following weekend this exploded into full-scale rioting, with pitched battles between police and youths involving petrol bombs, paving stones, and CS gas. Merseyside Merseyside Police is the police force covering Merseyside in North West England. ... in Britain the Sus law is a stop-and-search law, widely believed to have been abused by the Metropolitan Police to harass young black men. ... Molotov cocktail is the generic name for a variety of crude incendiary weapons. ... chemical structure of CS gas CS gas (commonly called tear gas), or ortho-chloro-benzal malonitrile, is a usually non-lethal riot control agent. ...


Over the course of nine days of rioting, there were 468 police officers injured, 500 people arrested, and at least 70 buildings demolished.


See also

The Brixton riot of April 11, 1981 was the most serious riot in London of the century. ... The two Handsworth riots occurred in the Handsworth suburb of Birmingham England during the summers of 1981 and 1985. ... Map sources for Toxteth at grid reference SJ355885 Huskisson Street, Liverpool Toxteth is an area of inner-city Liverpool, England, starting approximately a mile south from the city centre. ... This is a chronological list of historical riots: // 18th century and earlier 121 BC - Roman Election Riot of 121 BC 113 BC - Roman Election Riot of 113 BC 532 - Nika riots, (Constantinople) The deadliest riots in world history, with an estimated 30,000 killed in the Hippodome. ...

External links

  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1419981.stm – Toxteth riots remembered

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Toxteth Riots - Part 2 (1381 words)
There were many factors which contributed to the creation of the Toxteth riots, one of which was the amount of crime that was occurring before, and up to when the riots broke out.
Another causal factor associated with the Toxteth riots is that of the enormously high rates of unemployment and appalling levels of poverty.
It may be presumed, therefore, that the outbreak of riots in surrounding areas, due to similar factors, may have been a clear indicator in foreseeing the Toxteth riots.
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