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    The 1981 Brixton riot, or Brixton uprising, was a series of clashes between mainly black youths and the Metropolitan Police in Brixton, London, between...
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  • Brixton riots may refer to: 1981 Brixton riot – 11 April 1981 1985 Brixton riot – 28 September 1985 1995 Brixton riot – 13 December 1995 2011 Brixton...
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  • The Brixton riot of 1985 started on 28 September in Lambeth in South London. It was the second major riot that the area had witnessed in the space of four...
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    The Brixton Riot are an American rock band from New Jersey. The Brixton Riot are a four-piece rock band from New Jersey that formed in 2006. The name is...
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  • The Brixton riots of 1995 began on 13 December after the death of a black 26-year-old, Wayne Douglas, in police custody. Douglas had allegedly robbed a...
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    Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres...
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  • local police and the black community. They followed the Brixton riot earlier that year and were part of the 1981 England riots. The Merseyside police...
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  • most famous of these is perhaps the 1981 Chapeltown riot, which took place the same time as riots in London (Brixton), Birmingham (Handsworth) and Liverpool...
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  • deprivation. The most serious riots were the April Brixton riots in London, followed in July by the Toxteth riots in Liverpool, the Handsworth riots in Birmingham...
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    The Riot Act (1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 5), sometimes called the Riot Act 1714 or the Riot Act 1715, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which authorised...
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    combination of local issues and the aftermath of the 1985 Brixton riot which had occurred the previous week, following the shooting of a black woman, Cherry...
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    riots against the Metropolitan police. 1994: Riot during the second march against the Criminal Justice Bill 1995: 1995 Brixton riot against the Metropolitan...
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  • Brixton protests may refer to: 1981 Brixton riot – 11 April 1981 1985 Brixton riot – 28 September 1985 1995 Brixton riot – 13 December 1995 2011 Brixton...
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  • Scarman Report (category Brixton)
    The Scarman report was commissioned by the UK Government following the 1981 Brixton riots. Lord Scarman was appointed by then Home Secretary William Whitelaw...
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  • Harehills riot List of race riots Other riots in the UK the same year 1981 Brixton riot - London Handsworth riots - Birmingham 1981 Toxteth riots - Liverpool...
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    nearby Wood Green. The following days saw similar scenes in other parts of London, with the worst rioting taking place in Hackney, Brixton, Walthamstow, Wandsworth...
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  • in London during the 1981 Brixton riot. The title of the song refers to Electric Avenue in the south London district of Brixton, the first market street...
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  • organ "The Guns of Brixton" predates the riots that took place in the 1980s in Brixton but the lyrics depict the feelings of discontent in the area because...
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  • Chapeltown race riot 1981, Leeds, England 1980s Handsworth race riots 10 July 1981, Birmingham, England 1985 Brixton riot 28 September 1985, Brixton, London,...
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  • Alex Wheatle (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    British novelist, who was sentenced to a term of imprisonment after the 1981 Brixton riot in London. Born in 1963 in London to Jamaican parents, Wheatle spent...
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  • David McNee (category Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis)
    Service to storm the building and resolve the situation. One of the most serious riots in London of the 20th century took place in Brixton over 10, 11 and...
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  • Murder of Keith Blakelock (category 1985 murders in the United Kingdom)
    social unrest across England. Since the 1980 St Pauls riot in Bristol, and particularly since the 1981 Brixton riot in south London, a series of incidents...
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    funded by Lambeth London Borough Council and the Greater London Council after the Brixton riots in 1981. The murals portray politics, community and ideas...
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    Michael Groce (category Writers from the London Borough of Lambeth)
    a dawn raid on her home starting the 1985 Brixton riot in London, England. He is now a published poet, having won the Cheltenham Poetry Prize, and actively...
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  • list of ethnic riots by country, and includes riots based on ethnic, sectarian, xenophobic, and racial conflict. Some of these riots can also be classified...
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  • the 1981 riots in England as "copycat riots" – taking place after the Brixton riots in London, and around the same time as the Toxteth riots in Liverpool...
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    Brixton Academy (originally known as the Astoria Variety Cinema, previously known as Carling Academy Brixton, currently named O2 Academy Brixton as part...
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  • South Station after Japanese bombing attacks in 1937 1981 Brixton riot, an anti-police riot by black youths in London Black Saturday (disambiguation)...
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    The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) were a series of riots and civil...
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  • 1985 At the Movies (Mint 400 Records album), 2018; see The Brixton Riot § Mint 400 Records At the Movies (Stanley Clarke album), 1995 At the Movies (Richard...
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