Six teenage girls have been arrested after two separate incidents of anti-social behaviour “fuelled by online trends” in south-west London, the Met Police said.
About 100 officers were called to Clapham High Street on Tuesday where young people were reported to be attempting to access shops and a restaurant. They also lit fires and set off fireworks on Clapham Common.
Does anyone know what the online trend is or what they were actually doing? There are a couple of references to “causing disturbances” and “stealing food” but no explanation of what the overall activity entails.
I found a clear explanation I’m going to default to the police where harassing teenagers and needed an excuse
Main trend is decades of austerity caused by neoliberalism, but I don’t think it’s a particularly online trend, nor are the redditors that push it really responsible for it actually happening.
What the fuck are you talking about
I think they do a lot of thing, and this is one in particular, but mostly can be summarised as a large group of people with common goal and being extremely rowdy and harassing people.
I always feel like this is all governments trying to see what they can do to leverage social media for. These are all test runs that get studied and logged in a manual and every couple years a new one is tried
From the context of the article, it sounds like they’re organizing looting flash mobs, but at restaurants instead of retail stores. More info would be nice.