Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Wood Green Riot 45 Years ago this month

On 7th July, 45 years ago Britain's cities were hit with rioting. The "Soaraway Sun" published the following piece about a riot in Wood Green.

(The attached images were run through an AI engine to try and improve the legibility of the text. Oddly some engines struggle with text in images. So I've added the original images as attachments below)

A little more about the riot here on HoL.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Easter 6 hours ago

I suspect it's already possible. At least some of those photos from the riots would be of sufficient quality to capture the unique embeddings and vectors that could be put into a database which could flag faces that appear on modern streets in Brixton, Tottenham etc. Obviously the hit rate would be low (many would be dead now or moved away) but the odd suspects could be selected for further verification. It would be good to see them brought to justice but the police have their hands full dealing with the children and grandchildren of those rioters.

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Permalink Reply by Geoffrey Walker 11 hours ago

Remember seeing a TV news clip of a rioter/looter trying on a pair of looted trainers, found they didn't fit, threw them back and nicked another pair instead!