Trouble isn't over yet, says teenager who predicted riots

riots by Chavez says condoms do not target youth Campbell no job, no money and no future, were ripe for causing mayhem

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A, with a loose approach and a kit bag slung over the shoulder of great history, 18, Chavez Campbell figure is striking that the last steps ET put up shops in Wood Green, north London. Last Saturday, riots broke out here, rampaging youths smashed shop front and arms full of you could get something.

A week before he started

, Campbell, in an interview with the Guardian clippings years about youth services, what would be predicted. Asked what the future HE thought, he simply said: "There will be riots."

words again looking at the story, he said. "I do not see the riots and the government should have seen it coming Coming as jobs are difficult to obtain and, when available, don t get the job Young. There is nothing to do, they are youth clubs closure so that the streets are just crazy. They are full of people who have no ambitions, ambitions, or end can be FulFil Them. "

Campbell, who left the university and has trouble finding a job recently, rarely heard voice has-been shown that in the maelstrom of recent days. I have seen riots, the goal went home to stay safe. He thinks the government must take some responsibility, cuts and poverty played a claim, the objective ET Rioters Also feels bound to be bad and punished. It is not an academic expert in a normal year, just a teenager from a poor neighborhood Try to go down in history of life.

Being poor is no excuse, HE Argue, it could help explain why there was widespread looting that objective goods such as trainers, clothes and gadgets. "It does not justify his intention They think:" I do not have money for that, I do not have money for that, I can not get a job I need a goal. "The only way they'll do is fly. They will be ruthless and do everything to get it THEY CAN. It was fun for 'em. "

• for him, the impact of riots this week are immediate. In the middle of the window destroyed, he said: "I just feel it's not a safe place, sometimes I feel like I will not be here, as I am an outcast because everyone makes crime, and I try to stay. straight and narrow over the people. Have different look at me like "what's on. 'Objective I know I am a good person, so it does not bother me not. "
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• concerned about the impact on the history of area. "People were doing this to the community their owner, where did they live for. They burned the stores where we shop. It just makes it harder for people to find a job today. It's not like we were in an excellent position, with the aim that we are now Low. "

promising amateur boxer

Campbell, grew up in single parent families and 12 half brothers and sisters. Walk to the Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club in West London, says the sport changed his life after HE was excluded from the wrestling school, 11. "These coaches are like my parents. The same level of respect for my mother I have, I have for them, I said." They love me, they give me good advice. If I started going the wrong way, would they tell me to say so. '

Without the guidance of men who worked unpaid in the club, things could have been different. "It could have been me there, I say." Children's lack of confidence, they do not believe they can do stuff. You have to find something you enjoy doing, not everyone What did. They do not have enough courage to be themselves. I want the kids see something they can do with their lives and not just run the roads causing mayhem. "

sweating and puffing After thwacking leather pads and dance around the ring, Campbell does not care about their own future. I was staring at a medal at the Commonwealth Games in 2014 and a career in boxing.
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