... who just got stabbed in Hackney. That was messed up, don't think you deserved that.

Feel like crap, nothing I could have done. Gave the police details of the guy who did it hope they catch him

Shit was ****ed up... hope the kid is cool.

Feel terrible.

It's really quite difficult to appreciate these stabbings and how quick these kids are ready to take each others life...headlines aside do you ever sit back and check what is really happening and the more it happens a kind of sense of normality is creeping on us.

I came home one evening and saw some shifty looking yoots on my road, about 3 or 4 of them walking at a hastened pace, in and out of gardens like they are looking for something or they were trying to break into cars. I said alright, make it pass, carried on walking up my road then all of a sudden there were about 15 more yoots who were obviously after the first lot, all with some kind of tool in their hands and all looked like a pack of wotliss wild wolves.

In one breath I wanted to call to them and talk them them and ask them why they killing each other and black man to black man, explain to me what this is all about, how did we get to this, and the other breath said these guys are buzzing, they're on fire, make it pass. The all looked like pikney and none of them looked like they went to school or had any concept of things like homework.

It was a real insight seeing them this way but then I remember being at school hearing how school A had a fight with school b or school C beat up school D, this was a regular enough occurrence so the same question just popped into my head, other than the severity and more seemingly trapped in the spell, has anything really changed. In the question of extremes, is it simply a case where our best have got better and our worse worse.

Either way, I still advocate if our children are killing each other it's the generation before them who have failed. Weak men and weak women have left our children at the mercy of the system and we and society are reaping the consequences of that now.

Was messed up, they stabbed him twelve times kid only looked 17/18 the rest of them looked much older thats what I couldn't understand, for them to stab him that many times is attempted murder from a minor assault they took it to another level and thought to stab him.

Weird seeing someone laying there like that, kid was broken, could see myself laying there half dead with people fussing over me, if it didn't kill him it'll only drag him further into it, more ''respect'' now that hes been stabbed, means trouble if he lives in that area gonna have to either learn his lesson, wind up dead for it or end up in prison retaliating on some B.S, its conscious decision time, end of the road business, you're either out now or you can wave goodbye to those parents crying over you in hospital... even then getting out isn't easy cause they won't let you. Wanted to say something to help but there wasn't anything I could have done, couldn't have walked round earlier was too close for comfort bstards nearly turned on me.

Now C.I.D are calling me, like I want to talk to those devils, they're only one up from the rest of them talking to me like I was involved.

Want out of this city/country.

They'll catch him...he's probably at home right now on his Playstation.

And what foolishness led to the stabbing?

I remember the inter school fights - no weapons just fists or pick up a piece of wood. No police were involved and everyone lived to see another day. It was only when I went to college that things changed - one man in my electronics engineering class being chased down by some boys. Next thing I hear is the college was wrecked and he had been lashed with a sword. Never saw him again after that.

There's too many people out there that dont care about anything and ready to kill the next person over the stupidest things.

im gonna sound a little cold now but hey

people been killing each other from day dot... how do you know he didnt RAPE one of them dudes sisters??

no need to feel like crap Lion... by the sound of things there was nothing you coulda done anyway homie...smoke a big one put it behind you dawg..

I really can't understand what is going on with our youths.

New years day '08, woke up trying to find something to cure my hangover...look outside my kitchen window...to a crime scene...I watched the comings and goings thinking 'on this brand new day..a mother would receive a visit from the police telling her..her child is gone'...I don't know why but I was not thinking of whoever was dead...but the mother..how this is going to break her to be burying her child.

Evening after the incident..I got home from work and the scene 'was open to family i guess'...I had my windows..my doors shut...and I sat in my flat crying...I could hear the wailing of that family and it broke my heart...

Our youths doesn't seem to have a care in this world, they're fearless, there's no thoughts of concequences for their action.
No matter how much it's preached to them to stop destroying themselves...I don't think it will stop...it's just a vicious cycle at the moment...the ones that escapes death are the ones going for the ones that killed their so call mates.

This kid that got stabbed in edmonton....came off a bus infront of the police station..got into an argument whatsoever...and ran for his life to the back of my building...now this kid didn't feel safe to run straight into the police station?
How do we put an end to this vicious cycle?

Was a gang fight, kid was sixteen, took nine stab wounds and survived said they nearly lost him at one point but that he'll pull through... then its up to him what he wants to do. Someone is going to wind up dead in Hackney central soon.

Thing is it looked like these kids were attacking an older bunch who were about my age like they're getting a bit extra from young don't know why they'd feel the need to take him out like some 16 year old is a threat could have just slapped him about till he cried and sent him home but they went to kill him.

Its going to get worse.... thats a generation of bad mind youts coming up, can't even lock up kids at that age they'll just grow up in prison. If he was my age I wouldn't care, probably wouldn't even have posted about it or reported it on the scene was just sad cause he was young laying there in the road like that sounded like he just left his pram. Even the C.I.D were genuinely concerned.

Thats just sad, different when they ask for it.

So Sad - and pretty scary as far as Im concerned. One day I got to let my sons out to flex with these people.

I think alot of these youts problems stem from being let down or neglected at home, coupled with this society that promotes so many harmful things.

And then some people are just plain evil.

I will admit though that I really find it so hard to comprehend the hatred that these kids are showing to each other. As a foster parent I see many examples of juvenile delinquency, and I will say that the vast majority that I have personally cared for have been circumstantial, and workable. Ive only asked social services to remove one child from my home.

I am so SICK of seeing these kids ruining their lives, each others, and that of other members of the community - and by the time half of them realise that its bullshyte that they're under - its too damned late.

Sounds like someone was planning an something special for Valentines day...

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