Tottenham Mandem proximate cause of the 2011 England riots. Tottenham Mandem The Tottenham Mandem (also Tottenham Man Dem or TMD) are an organized street gang based in Tottenham, north London, that began on the Broadwater Farm estate prior to the Broadwater Farm riot in 1985. One of the early members and later leader Mark Lambie was a suspect in the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during that riot. Lambie had been top of Operation Trident's wanted list due to the close links he had built with gangs in Wembley, Harlesden and south London. He was jailed in 2002. In January 2014, it
Martha Osamor, Baroness Osamor Youth Association Mothers' Project on the nearby Broadwater Farm housing estate. From 1986 to 1990 she served as a Labour Councillor representing the Bruce Grove Ward in the London Borough of Haringey. Following the Broadwater Farm riot Osamor and Dolly Kiffin organised the "first Civil Rights Demonstration ever held in Britain" on 3 October 1987 and produced a "Manifesto of the movement for civil rights and justice". She became a founding member of the Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign. Osamor was nominated by some branches within the Vauxhall Constituency Labour Party in the selection for a candidate at the by-election in