The Police in Salford and Manchester did a very poor job if you ask me, not using force to stop these criminals and just trying to scare them off by using large numbers and dog squads. All they are bothered about is gathering CCTV evidence and knocking on a load of doors in the coming weeks. If these thugs are trying to burn down their local shopping district the police should be given the right to hit them with batons regardless of there age. They would soon get the picture and grow the f*** up and go home. They where FAR to soft for my liking yesterday, I hope all arrested should be named and shamed in the Salford Advertiser. Lets hope this is the last time this happens in Salford, but I'd image it will happen again sometime in the future.

It's embarrassing when you see that on TV and think god, he is a real person not some silly caricature in a stupid BBC comedy.

another one from the cheshire set in Worsley,

"A teenager was "frog-marched" to a police station after his parents saw photos of him looting, a court heard.

Michael Fitzpatrick, 18, from Worsley, Greater Manchester, confessed to being one of the hundreds rioting and looting in Manchester city centre last week.

Fitzpatrick admitted three counts of burglary as a trespasser and one of handling stolen goods.

City magistrates remanded him in custody to be sentenced at Manchester Crown Court on Thursday.

He appeared in the dock with his mother, flanked by her husband.

The court was told Fitzpatrick worked in the family business, had never been in trouble with police before and intended to study at university."

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