David Lammy (black MP surprise surprise) for black Tottenham where white people are now a minority, makes an appeal to his fellow black community members on Channel 4 news the morning after the riots calling for an end to the violence. He claims the trouble makers were not local. Heh. I find that hard to believe somehow. This is not the first time Tottenham has seen black rioting. I think he's going to have his work cut out. Tottenham has been one of the main hotspots for gangs and gun crime in the United Kingdom during the past three decades. This followed the rise of gangs and drug wars throughout the area, notably those involving the Tottenham Mandem gang and various gangs from Hackney and all of the areas surrounding Tottenham, and the emergence of an organised crime ring known as the Turkish Mafia was said to have controlled more than 90% of the UK's heroin market [1][2]. Tottenham has a multicultural population, with many ethnic groups inhabiting the area. It contains one of the largest and most significant populations of African-Caribbean people. These were among the earliest immigrant groups to settle in the area, starting the UK's Windrush era. Soon afterwards West African communities - notably the many Ghanaians - began to migrate into the area. Between 1980 and the present day there has been a slow immigration of Colombians, Congolese, Albanian, Kurdish, Turkish-Cypriot, Turkish, Somali, Irish, and Portuguese populations.[citation needed] South Tottenham is ...