More knife crime in Southend on sea

There were six youths with machetes, as evidenced by CCTV at the seafront end of the High Street along with CCTV cameras from the amusement arcades opposite Adventure Island.

Police have not said where any of those involved come from.

Southend is not in lockdown it is subject to a Police Dispersal Order which means that if large groups of any people are found to be congregating they can be ordered to disperse and move on.

PDO’s are issued regularly round here, there was one the other week to stop travellers from holding a pony and trap meet
(Wasn’t successful as they held the meet in my road)

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Statement from Essex Police

Thanx for the update
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GrannyGravy13 - are you actually trying to play this down?? Youths running around the streets wielding machetes trying to kill each other while (I think they were) Police just looking on? Is this what we’ve descended into, a country where this barely gets a mention? Where’s the condemnation of this?

I think you are being unfair to Grannygravy who is attempting to give facts and steer clear from overwrought comments. No-one is doubting the awfulness of the situation, certainly not Grannygravy.

youtu.be/eASd-z6qKkE?si=dN-wyxBmrxIWk_vZ

GB news report

England is a tinderbox.

Nicenanny3

England is a tinderbox.

So stop fanning the flames. No its not.

Grandmabatty

I think you are being unfair to Grannygravy who is attempting to give facts and steer clear from overwrought comments. No-one is doubting the awfulness of the situation, certainly not Grannygravy.

No overwrought comments? Seems to be able to, quite rightly, condemn the behaviour in Southport perfectly adequately.

Granny gravy put my mind at rest a bit, my daughter was obviously a bit too close to it all to give a more matter of fact account.
Tbh Southend has suffered this for several summers, indeed there have been fatalities due to stabbings. Is too close to east London so there is an overspill of such criminality.
When we lived there was not like this and in fact my daughter and husband are planning to move.

I do however think that granny gravy could sound a bit less like a headmistress when correcting me.
Will go to the back of the class 😂

Police Dispersal Orders are issued all the time, all over England, I’m not sure about elsewhere.
The police did not ‘just look on’.
Is there some sort of hysteria affecting certain members of GN so they can’t fact check before posting?
Thank you GG13.

I live close to Southend

My AC and GC live even closer.

The CCTV is on the local MP’s X if anyone wishes to view it.

It is not comparable to the riots in Southport.

Apologies if I sound like a Headmistress, (I am not by the way)

Of course England is a tinderbox perhaps people need to get their heads out of the sand. 3 innocent little girls killed and others injured by who we don't exactly know or why. Riots in Southport. Machete fights in Southend. Riots in Leeds, chaos at Manchester Airport with police attacked, the Army major who was at stabbed. Etc etc. Frequent murders/stabbings in London and Manchester. No respect for the police. I could go on. I'm certainly concerned and worried about what is happening to my country.

Babs03

I do however think that granny gravy could sound a bit less like a headmistress when correcting me.
Will go to the back of the class 😂

I posted the facts as stated by the Police.

I apologise if you found me too brusque.

I drive the entire length of the seafront on a regularly basis (four times last week and will do later today)

I think the GB Headlines of Mass brawl misleading and inflammatory as are the posted comments after the UTube video on GB site.

High time we had water cannons!

Don’t worry granny gravy I didn’t take offence at all. Tbh we all need a fact check at times.

I too live very close to Southend, we are in Suffolk atm.

We do have a lot of Police Dispersal Orders and due to our proximity to the East End of London we do get many people visiting, some of whom can cause issues.

Sadly it’s not a new occurrence, nor luckily on this scale not a regular occurrence.

GrannyGravy13

I live close to Southend

My AC and GC live even closer.

The CCTV is on the local MP’s X if anyone wishes to view it.

It is not comparable to the riots in Southport.

Apologies if I sound like a Headmistress, (I am not by the way)

Not comparable to the riots in Southport? How about the riots in Leeds? I personally really wouldn't want to compare, they are all simply wrong. However, still no condemnation I see?

Nicenanny3

Of course England is a tinderbox perhaps people need to get their heads out of the sand. 3 innocent little girls killed and others injured by who we don't exactly know or why. Riots in Southport. Machete fights in Southend. Riots in Leeds, chaos at Manchester Airport with police attacked, the Army major who was at stabbed. Etc etc. Frequent murders/stabbings in London and Manchester. No respect for the police. I could go on. I'm certainly concerned and worried about what is happening to my country.

You omitted the man who murdered the people with a crossbow. So what do you think is the common denominator?

I think the police dealt with it very effectively.

JN450

GrannyGravy13

I live close to Southend

My AC and GC live even closer.

The CCTV is on the local MP’s X if anyone wishes to view it.

It is not comparable to the riots in Southport.

Apologies if I sound like a Headmistress, (I am not by the way)

Not comparable to the riots in Southport? How about the riots in Leeds? I personally really wouldn't want to compare, they are all simply wrong. However, still no condemnation I see?

If any GN members have viewed the footage they will see that at least one of those sporting a machete was white, you could see their legs as they had shorts on.

The others were had their bodies covered, hoods up and faces covered they could have been bright blue for all we know.

I condemn the violence, but a street fight between six or seven lads is no way comparable to the riots in Southport, Leeds or anywhere else for that matter.

Jaxjacky

Police Dispersal Orders are issued all the time, all over England, I’m not sure about elsewhere.
The police did not ‘just look on’.
Is there some sort of hysteria affecting certain members of GN so they can’t fact check before posting?
Thank you GG13.

That's funny, but the clip I saw which I have just watched again, on X, clearly shows the Police having to stand there unable to affect anything, probably because they had no tasers and waiting for backup - who can blame them with thugs waiving machetes around, I certainly do not. But dont try to deflect from the actual event, parents having to rush their children into a pub and lock the door behind them must have been incredibly frightening. Seemingly trying to downplay 'events' like this because PDO's are issued all the time serves no-one and certainly does not excuse what happened.

JN450

Jaxjacky

Police Dispersal Orders are issued all the time, all over England, I’m not sure about elsewhere.
The police did not ‘just look on’.
Is there some sort of hysteria affecting certain members of GN so they can’t fact check before posting?
Thank you GG13.

That's funny, but the clip I saw which I have just watched again, on X, clearly shows the Police having to stand there unable to affect anything, probably because they had no tasers and waiting for backup - who can blame them with thugs waiving machetes around, I certainly do not. But dont try to deflect from the actual event, parents having to rush their children into a pub and lock the door behind them must have been incredibly frightening. Seemingly trying to downplay 'events' like this because PDO's are issued all the time serves no-one and certainly does not excuse what happened.

No one is excusing what happened!

As you appear to have viewed at least one of the CCTV footage you will also have seen people walking past on the other side of the road, people shopping, etc,

No mass hysteria, no riots.