I just watched a programme about Co19, the Metropolitan Police armed response unit. One of the first scenes they showed was an arrest of two young guys who were suspected of carrying firearms. They didnt have any but what they did have was blood stained clothes and knives. They had just stabbed someone three times. This was in Primula Street W12.I dont know the exact date of that arrest but we all remember the shooting in Loftus Road of 20 year old Craig Brown. Two people have been charged - also kids basically.
In W12 the local gang is called Murder Dem Pussies, MDP. The fact they call themselves something so pathetic tells you all you need to know about how screwed in the head they must be. These are the people that killed Kodjo Yenga and the remainder who were not imprisoned still scrawl their graffiti on fences and walls. They call themselves "soldiers".
This has to be the most depressing fact of life in London, and I'm reminded of it every time I hear a police helicopter hovering overhead. That seems to happen a lot. I look at kids just like them whenever I go to Liberia or Congo - where life expectancy is among the lowest even for Africa because of violent conflict. These are kids for whom war and the use of a gun is a matter of survivial. And then I look at kids here, with their iPods and Nike trainers, who name themselves Murder Dem Pussies, and just begin to lose all hope.
it's these callous little pricks that are responsible for most of the mass beatings and stabbings that go on every day in west London. They killed a friend of mine in 2007. As tragic as the death of kodjo was, my friend yasin was a promising and diligent young man who looked after his family and was studying for a degree. He had nothing to do with gangs. Gangs are not something new in London but the concept of large groups of 13 and 14 year olds running round with knives and guns at the whim of their 16 year old gang leaders is a thought that scares me. When I was 16 growing up in west London, gangs weren't gangs, they were just groups of friends hanging out and having a laugh like youths have done for so many years. People who were in gangs were into extortion, trafficking and racketeering. It's only in the last 5 or so years that this new gang culture of just going out to cause pain, anguish and fear amongst the general population has come about. It's more evidence that the underclass society has driven the good hardworking law abiding citizens to despair. The lunatics have taken over the asylum...
ReplyDeleteI'm really sorry to hear that, while I can't imagine what that must have been like I completely agree with the sentiment. It was interesting to see in the programme I watched how so-called tough lads turned into whimpering jellies when faced with the police. Not so tough then all of a sudden.
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