A victim of the Tottenham Riots understands why it happened

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Interviewee name: Talip Gazel
Date of event: 7 Aug 2011
Talip's family has a restaurant on Tottenham High Street which had its windows smashed in the riots. Despite that, he understands why the local youths took to the streets - in protest, he says, against heavy-handed policing in the area.

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