I’ve not seen stuff like that even when I was a kid. of course I’ve seen standoffs with OB, but never a street full of innocent folks cars smashed as a reprisal.
In 1995 one lad from a London crew threatened to burgle houses in the area where a party happened to pay for the replacement of any confiscated equipment but he was about 14 and it was a empty threat, the rest of his crew would not have let him do this.
In East Anglia where raves were virtually trouble free, there was a issue with chavs breaking into and vandalising cars throughout the 1990s and 2000s. It also happened on the Ridgeway in SE England. And people whinged like fuck when this happened, so if they are prepared to use these tactics against bystanders they aren’t much better than the authorities (who are at least defending private property).
And didn’t the crews scout out the venue in daytime? then they would have found the metpol depot next to the venue and realised it was a bad idea…
this (and to a lesser extent the youth protests, although I appreciate the uni students doing occupations are smarter) makes me think of this (particularly including the mistranslation of pueri leading to a much wider age range being involved)
Children’s Crusade – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
