Six teenage girls arrested after large gatherings in Clapham
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Six teenage girls are arrested after online trends spark anti-social behaviour in south London, the Met says.

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.

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Sheikh Awais, who works at chicken shop Rooster Spot, said 70 to 80 young people came in on Tuesday.

    “They were shouting and sitting there, some were rude and aggressive with me,” he said but added that some did go outside nicely.

    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.

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      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