Harehills is broken says one resident after a night of disorder

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00:00I was born in 1965. I've lived in Leeds all my life. I've lived in Harold for 51 years.

00:06I was born in St James's. I used to live at Kitchener Grove which is five minutes,

00:10a few minutes, three, four minutes away from here. I moved from Kitchener Grove to Knowles

00:16which is a couple of minutes walk from here. I moved from there to Seaforth.

00:22It's massively changed over the years. I remember in the 1970s and 1980s, a completely different

00:29world. Hare Hills is broken. It's snapped in two. My opinion, it'll never be the same.

00:36What was your reaction when you saw the drama last night? It might have been quite frightening,

00:41was it? I couldn't believe it. Well, I didn't know nothing about it. My daughter

00:44rung me up, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, have you heard about Hare Hills? I go, what's happened this time?

00:49I've, um, cars been turned over, police cars and so on. So I went on to tell her on my laptop

00:59and I saw it. I couldn't believe it. I'm heartbroken. I'm heartbroken to see my lovely

01:05Hare Hills become what it has become. A bus burnt down, police car overturned.

01:11Are you concerned about something like this happening again?

01:14It will happen again. Mark my word, it will happen again.

01:18I remember, as I say, I remember the 1980s riots and it's happened again.

01:24One person has turned into two, two has turned into ten, ten has turned into hundreds.

01:30No one talks anymore.