town, We were all held overcars bolic. At 4am on Sunday morning barricades went up in ChapelLeeds Along Roundhay Road shop windows were smashed, goods were taken and barricades erected with burning overturned But it was almost as if the looting was sym- TOn.
After all, who would want a Black and Decker grass trimmer when nobody in Chapeltown had a lawn?
All day Saturday in Chapeltown there had been coppers in twos and threes on every street corner. Others were in blue transit vans, hungrily roaming the streets Right at the start of vans drive past the ac waited for the trouble to escalate before moving in.
By 5.30am the police had forced us into a myriad of side streets. Our number had dwindled to 50 But for a while we had established a no-go area in parts of Chapel town, although there were too few of us to reach our real target the business district of Leeds.
Still the police had not been able to defea us. and the next dar blacks walked the streets with a nev found air of confidenc and celebration.