The unlikely hero of the Hackney Riots..Grandmother Pauline Pierce

[HipChick]

Aftermath - been talking with some of the people of Hackney that witnessed the riots as they took place. Met with different communities, some with generations of unemployed in a household, and local borough politicians to discuss the events that took place.

Tracked down Pauline Pierce who became a local heroine in the community, fighting off hooded yobos in her area. Pauline Pierce has emerged as a local community person that took action during the riots to try and stop the destruction in her neighborhood, and quickly became a media darling. She's a cancer survivor herself, disabled but telling some truths that need to be told.The footage here is raw, and unedited - for a community based UK news outlet, but conveys the frustrations with all that took place

Interview with Pauline Pierce here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgsR9rYne9s&feature=share


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024789/Hackney-riots-Grandmother-Pauline-Pearce-saved-boy-attacked.html

A grandmother who waved her walking stick and berated a gang of rampaging yobs has revealed how she fought off the hooded youths when they set upon her and another man. Pauline Pearce, 45, stood firm when the escalation of violence in Hackney, east London, on Monday evening would have intimidated even the youngest and strongest. The jazz-singing grandmother - dubbed the Hackney heroine - was filmed launching into an impassioned speech which later became an internet hit as a fightback began against the rioters.Her minute-long tirade was captured on camera, and subsequently placed on YouTube, where it has been watched by more than a million people. Miss Pearce's speech has even been hailed the 'best since Martin Luther King's' and featured in a song.
The incredible footage has become an internet hit and Miss Pearce has become something of a figurehead for the backlash against the rioters who caused carnage across the capital.


Interview with Meg Hiliier MP South Hackney & Shorditch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuB3CS2v_Ic&feature=related

[pacalo]

1. The incurious media should be focusing on WHY this rioting is happening: corporate greed

that is shaping government policies.

[socialist_n_TN]

3. Yeah, but that wouldn't fit into the capitalist meme

That it was just "thugs" taking advantage.

[booley]

4. Thug's Taking Advantage?

I thought that was capitalism as cons defined it.

[HipChick]

5. bankers took advantage

have yet to see them pay for their crimes

[malaise]

2. I posted a youtube with her

earlier in the week