>__Protesters force Asian-owned beauty stores to shut in Peckham race row__
>Video shows shopkeeper putting black suspected shoplifter in a headlock
>What started off as a brief struggle between two people has threatened to drive a lasting wedge between two communities.
>Video of a black customer being manhandled by an Asian shopkeeper was followed by vitriolic threats and loud protests outside his hair and beauty shop in Peckham, southeast London.
>The shopkeeper, Sohail Sindho, 45, said he was protecting his shop from a suspected shoplifter and that he was also attacked. He claimed the video footage did not tell the whole story.
>But protest groups have called for a boycott of cosmetics businesses whose owners are not black amid claims that Asian people have a monopoly on the sector and allegations of customers being mistreated.
>Messages were left at the shop calling for “parasitic merchants” such as Sindho, who is now in hiding, to leave the community. The incident has also been seized upon by the far right.
>However, Rakib Ehsan, a social integration expert, said before another planned protest at Peckham Hair and Cosmetics that people should stop viewing such incidents through the “prism of race”.
>“I’m not trivialising the racial dynamics, but there is a tendency to look at a variety of events through the prism of race,” Ehsan said.
>“There are a variety of factors at play that don’t necessarily relate to race. In ethnically diverse and competitive local economies, you are going to have tensions. Community-based policing has been gutted around the country.
>“If you have a lack of localised law and order to manage those tensions, then you have problems and you will see it happen in other parts of the country as well, I suspect.”
>The encounter between Sindho and the young black woman, on Monday, showed him putting his hands around her throat and her screaming for someone to call the police.
>He claimed she assaulted him first and said she was trying to leave with products she had not paid for after being denied a refund.
>Sindho said: “We do not give refunds; we exchange items or give a credit note. So she grabbed some stuff [three packs of hair with a total value of £24] from the shelf and tried to leave.”
>A 31-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault and later released on bail.
Sindho said he regretted putting the woman in a headlock, which he did in the “heat of the moment” and did not want police to press charges against her. He has been interviewed under caution.
>The video of the incident, which was also spread on social media by far-right accounts, solidified a movement to boycott non-black-owned businesses in the area.
>Kayne Kawasaki, a black historian from Peckham, said: “It’s time we choose our community over convenience. I implore you all to either buy your black-owned products online, which is a growing sector, or if you are in these places, if they’re in your area, buy from them.”
>After a protest on Monday that blocked traffic, the closed shutters of Peckham Hair and Cosmetics were plastered with posters calling for the business to leave. One read: “Parasitic merchants out of our community.” Another said: “This shop should permanently close alongside all your shops. Why? Because you do not respect the black community.”
>More vitriolic signs attacked the owner personally. “Nasty bastard, you need to go back to your dump,” one said.
>Rye Lane is one of the busiest streets in the area, with dozens of independent shops, many of which are Asian-owned. Beautify Hair and Cosmetics, an Afro hair supplies shop owned by Asians, was also closed.
>There were claims last night that trading standards were investigating Peckham Hair and Cosmetics over its refund policy. But Ehsan, who wrote Beyond Grievance: What the Left Gets Wrong about Ethnic Minorities, said: “If those businesses aren’t found to be doing anything wrong, there’s very little you can do.”
>Initiatives should be set up to ease tensions, in which more experienced shopkeepers of Asian origin interact with aspiring black entrepreneurs, Ehsan said. He added: “Many politicians — local, regional, national — are completely asleep at the wheel.”
>Earlier this year government figures showed that 6.1 per cent of the UK’s 5.6 million small and medium enterprise employers were led by a majority of people from an ethnic minority background. But black-led employers made up just 9,321 of those — just 0.1 per cent of Britain’s small and medium sized businesses overall.
>A report for the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) last year found that only 2 per cent of black African households were in the wealthiest fifth of British households pre-pandemic, while more than half were in the least wealthy fifth.
>There are 6,900 black people registered as living in Peckham, compared to 1,400 Asian people, according to the Office for National Statistics. Sindho opened his shop eight years ago after moving to the UK from Pakistani Kashmir in 2004.
What else can be said about this that hasn’t already? That people haven’t been saying for just over a decade now but dismissed/vilified as racist? The media and law enforcement need to stop enabling this entitled double standard victimhood.
>Some of the most unpleasant signs taped to the shutters of Peckham Hair & Cosmetics reveal a much darker undercurrent to this story. Take this poster scrawled by someone wholly unaware of its grotesque irony: ‘Racist Asians. Woman Beaters.’
>
>Or this one: ‘They don’t employ us. They don’t put money into our community. STOP SHOPPING IN ASIAN SHOPS.’
The black community referred to in this post should look to open more of their own businesses rather than actively ruin another’s. Can’t rate this sort of thing at all.
no community on the planet is more racist than black people.
While people are fighting each other, they’re not focused on our dear leaders fleecing us.
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>__Protesters force Asian-owned beauty stores to shut in Peckham race row__
>Video shows shopkeeper putting black suspected shoplifter in a headlock
>What started off as a brief struggle between two people has threatened to drive a lasting wedge between two communities.
>Video of a black customer being manhandled by an Asian shopkeeper was followed by vitriolic threats and loud protests outside his hair and beauty shop in Peckham, southeast London.
>The shopkeeper, Sohail Sindho, 45, said he was protecting his shop from a suspected shoplifter and that he was also attacked. He claimed the video footage did not tell the whole story.
>But protest groups have called for a boycott of cosmetics businesses whose owners are not black amid claims that Asian people have a monopoly on the sector and allegations of customers being mistreated.
>Messages were left at the shop calling for “parasitic merchants” such as Sindho, who is now in hiding, to leave the community. The incident has also been seized upon by the far right.
>However, Rakib Ehsan, a social integration expert, said before another planned protest at Peckham Hair and Cosmetics that people should stop viewing such incidents through the “prism of race”.
>“I’m not trivialising the racial dynamics, but there is a tendency to look at a variety of events through the prism of race,” Ehsan said.
>“There are a variety of factors at play that don’t necessarily relate to race. In ethnically diverse and competitive local economies, you are going to have tensions. Community-based policing has been gutted around the country.
>“If you have a lack of localised law and order to manage those tensions, then you have problems and you will see it happen in other parts of the country as well, I suspect.”
>The encounter between Sindho and the young black woman, on Monday, showed him putting his hands around her throat and her screaming for someone to call the police.
>He claimed she assaulted him first and said she was trying to leave with products she had not paid for after being denied a refund.
>Sindho said: “We do not give refunds; we exchange items or give a credit note. So she grabbed some stuff [three packs of hair with a total value of £24] from the shelf and tried to leave.”
>A 31-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assault and later released on bail.
Sindho said he regretted putting the woman in a headlock, which he did in the “heat of the moment” and did not want police to press charges against her. He has been interviewed under caution.
>The video of the incident, which was also spread on social media by far-right accounts, solidified a movement to boycott non-black-owned businesses in the area.
>Kayne Kawasaki, a black historian from Peckham, said: “It’s time we choose our community over convenience. I implore you all to either buy your black-owned products online, which is a growing sector, or if you are in these places, if they’re in your area, buy from them.”
>After a protest on Monday that blocked traffic, the closed shutters of Peckham Hair and Cosmetics were plastered with posters calling for the business to leave. One read: “Parasitic merchants out of our community.” Another said: “This shop should permanently close alongside all your shops. Why? Because you do not respect the black community.”
>More vitriolic signs attacked the owner personally. “Nasty bastard, you need to go back to your dump,” one said.
>Rye Lane is one of the busiest streets in the area, with dozens of independent shops, many of which are Asian-owned. Beautify Hair and Cosmetics, an Afro hair supplies shop owned by Asians, was also closed.
>There were claims last night that trading standards were investigating Peckham Hair and Cosmetics over its refund policy. But Ehsan, who wrote Beyond Grievance: What the Left Gets Wrong about Ethnic Minorities, said: “If those businesses aren’t found to be doing anything wrong, there’s very little you can do.”
>Initiatives should be set up to ease tensions, in which more experienced shopkeepers of Asian origin interact with aspiring black entrepreneurs, Ehsan said. He added: “Many politicians — local, regional, national — are completely asleep at the wheel.”
>Earlier this year government figures showed that 6.1 per cent of the UK’s 5.6 million small and medium enterprise employers were led by a majority of people from an ethnic minority background. But black-led employers made up just 9,321 of those — just 0.1 per cent of Britain’s small and medium sized businesses overall.
>A report for the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) last year found that only 2 per cent of black African households were in the wealthiest fifth of British households pre-pandemic, while more than half were in the least wealthy fifth.
>There are 6,900 black people registered as living in Peckham, compared to 1,400 Asian people, according to the Office for National Statistics. Sindho opened his shop eight years ago after moving to the UK from Pakistani Kashmir in 2004.
What else can be said about this that hasn’t already? That people haven’t been saying for just over a decade now but dismissed/vilified as racist? The media and law enforcement need to stop enabling this entitled double standard victimhood.
>Some of the most unpleasant signs taped to the shutters of Peckham Hair & Cosmetics reveal a much darker undercurrent to this story. Take this poster scrawled by someone wholly unaware of its grotesque irony: ‘Racist Asians. Woman Beaters.’
>
>Or this one: ‘They don’t employ us. They don’t put money into our community. STOP SHOPPING IN ASIAN SHOPS.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12524397/ROBERT-HARDMAN-reveals-random-incident-caught-camera-exposed-simmering-racial-tensions-one-diverse-parts-London.html
Black supremacism is getting out of hand.
I feel like the reaction would be much noisier if this were the BNP marching somewhere demanding the boycott of all minority owned businesses.
Let’s protest a “racist” incident that wasn’t racist by being amazingly racist ourselves!
The article doesn’t mention the race-based paramilitary behind these protests (although they are in the thumbnail): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8585073/amp/Who-secretive-British-protest-group-Forever-Family-Force.html
The black community referred to in this post should look to open more of their own businesses rather than actively ruin another’s. Can’t rate this sort of thing at all.
no community on the planet is more racist than black people.
While people are fighting each other, they’re not focused on our dear leaders fleecing us.
MP’s will be loving this.
[Paywall free mirror](https://web.archive.org/web/20230916125744/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peckham-protests-asian-shopkeepers-closing-shoplifting-2qr3fg37q)
Just for those who only saw the heavily edited video this video shows the prelude to that.
https://twitter.com/zzeireauxffxx/status/1701619193378922873?t=tkxbC2bPcv8vPvATDMCArg&s=19
Didn’t this all start because a woman was shoplifting? Or is this a seperate chain of events?