Notting Hill Carnival riot in 1976 - an important year for race relations in Britain.
1976 was bang in the middle of a period of racial upheaval that would lead to the Brixton and Toxteth riots of the early 1980s.
Tempers were boiling among young black men over police use of the "sus" law, under which anybody could be stopped, searched and held, even if only suspected of planning a crime.
Anticipating some trouble, 3,000 police officers turned up - ten times the...
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Notting Hill Carnival riot in 1976 - an important year for race relations in Britain.
1976 was bang in the middle of a period of racial upheaval that would lead to the Brixton and Toxteth riots of the early 1980s.
Tempers were boiling among young black men over police use of the "sus" law, under which anybody could be stopped, searched and held, even if only suspected of planning a crime.
Anticipating some trouble, 3,000 police officers turned up - ten times the amount of previous, relatively peaceful, events.
Whatever set it off, police officers were soon dodging a hail of bottles and a surging crowd.
Windows were smashed, fires were lit and ill-equipped police officers picked up dustbin lids and milk crates to charge the rioters. More than 100 officers and 60 other people were taken to hospital.
One officer interviewed in hospital afterwards told the BBC: "There were missiles coming at us from all directions, some over a lengthy period, bottles, bricks and the like."
"One or two police vehicles...tried to make it up the road but were turned back with a shower of missiles."
It went on for hours, as police tried to contain the violence.
Seventeen youths were eventually charged but only two were convicted after a case costing £250,000, a record at the time.
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