Broadwater Farm riots - Hurd’s response

Title

Broadwater Farm riots - Hurd’s response

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Oct 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:02:57

Description

Interview with Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, following the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham, North London (06/10/85) where he gives his backing to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s decision to have plastic bullets and CS gas on hand for such situations. Male interviewer not identified (poss. Peter Murphy).

Contributors

Douglas Hurd; Peter Murphy?

Keywords

London; Interethnic relations; Police; Metropolitan Police; Riots; Policing practice; Asphyxiating and poisonous gases; Broadwater Farm; Tottenham; Residential estates

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