Willie Whitelaw on Southall riots
- Title
- Willie Whitelaw on Southall riots
- Genre
- Interview; Press conference
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1979
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- Duration
- 00:02:43
- Description
- Press interview with Conservative home affairs spokesman Willie Whitelaw responding to the Southall riots in West London, where NF supporters and Anti-Nazi League protesters clashed, and were confronted by the Special Patrol Group branch of the Metropolitan Police. Teacher Blair Peach died during the violence.
- Contributors
- William Whitelaw
- Keywords
- Deaths; London; Interethnic relations; Police; Violence; Demonstrations; Metropolitan Police; National Front; Blair Peach; Anti-Nazi League; Southall; Riots; Policing practice; Anti-nazi movements
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