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A Special Police Squad Has Been Set Up In Luton To Stamp Out Racial Gang Warfare Among Teenagers

1986 , Luton (Bedfordshire)

Cat no. 22221

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Scenes filmed to show evidence of racial attacks on Asian people in Luton and gang graffiti.

Brief video scenes without commentary, used to accompany an Anglia Television news story that a special police squad has been set up in Luton to tackle racial gang warfare among teenagers. Scenes of Asian women and children walking on Luton streets. Exterior and interior views of a home which was fire-bombed, with Asian women and children showing the damage. Graffiti on walls showing repeated use of the term ‘MIGS’. Asian women and children walking through a pedestrian subway with graffiti on walls. Scene of a grocery shop with display of vegetables on the pavement. The reporter was Peter Lugg for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Arson; Fires; Violence; Racism; Families; Graffiti; Gangs; Football hooligans

Additional Description

The MIGs were a football hooligan "firm" associated with the English football club Luton Town, formed around 1982. MIG stands for ‘Men In Gear’, based on the preference for designer clothes and trainers. The family in the fire-bombed house are also seen in Cat 22201 512/13 on the same video.

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