ENGLAND RIOTS II
Kyaemon 
BBC News – London riots: Before-and-after images
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14446548
BBC News – London riots: Third night of unrest in pictures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14453918
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BBC News – Further riots in London as violence spreads across England
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14450248
9 August 2011
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London Riots
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Rioting has spread across London on a third night of violence, with unrest flaring in other English cities.
An extra 1,700 police officers were deployed in London, where shops were looted and buildings were set alight.
Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol also saw violence.
The prime minister has returned early from his holiday to discuss the unrest, which first flared on Saturday after a peaceful protest in Tottenham over the fatal shooting of a man by police.
At least 400 people have been arrested following a wave of what police have described as “copycat criminal activity” across London over the past three days, the Met Police said. More than 69 people have been charged with various offences.
Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steven Kavanagh said it was a “shocking and appalling morning for London to wake up to”.
“The Met was stretched beyond belief in a way that it has never experienced before,” he told BBC Breakfast.
When asked at what stage he would consider bringing in the Army, he responded by saying “all options are being considered”.
Three people were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer was injured by a car in Brent, north west London, while trying to stop suspected looters….
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BBC News – London riots: Timeline and map of violence
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Rioting spread across London on a third night of violence
Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol also experienced disturbances
Met Dep Ass Comm Steven Kavanagh: “Met was stretched beyond belief in a way that it has never experienced before”
The prime minister has returned early from his holiday and is due to chair an emergency Cobra meeting
Home Secretary Theresa May “will talk to police about what they need” to quell the disturbances
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Kyaemon
August 12, 2011 at 10:04 am
RIOTS and BURNINGS SPREAD TO CROYDON, PECKHAM AND BIRMINGHAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoZUcZuwbEM&NR=1
Sporadic violence has broken out in several parts of London as shops are looted and police are attacked in a third day of civil disorder – and there has also been unrest in Birmingham.
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London riots – Pharmacy gets looted in Peckham (HD Quality)
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Things are getting out of control.
LONDON LOOTERS CAUGHT ON CAMERA —- GREAT FOOTAGE
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Cupcake
August 12, 2011 at 5:52 pm
What the media and everyone with a half a brain should be pointing out is that the Republican strategy has always been to keep the economy in the dumpster through the 2012 election.
Republicans aren’t trying to improve the economy. They don’t want to improve the economy. Their political interest is making the economy worse, not better. The House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor is actually betting his own money against America. There is no greater evidence that Republicans aren’t serious about improving the economy than the fact that they have not proposed a single jobs bill, not one.
The House Republican leadership is so anti job creation that they won’t allow Democratic jobs bills to come up for a full vote on the House floor. Republicans know what needs to be done to improve the economy, but they are putting politics ahead of their own country. It is in their best interests to keep American miserable and suffering for as long as possible.
The GOP knows that their only chance of beating Obama is if the bad economy depresses turnout and shifts the national mood against the president. All things being equal, they have no chance of defeating Obama. Their one shot is to whip up and try to capitalize on a low turnout angry electorate. Republicans are making life harder for millions of Americans to improve their odds of winning the White House in 2012.
Kyaemon
August 12, 2011 at 11:09 pm
VIOLENCE SPREADS ACROSS EAST AND SOUTH LONDON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIxS7KDQ9IQ&feature=related
A POLICE car has been attacked in Enfield Town amid clashes between rioters and police.
The vehicle in Church Street was pelted with bricks, while police have confirmed that two shops were targeted by gangs of people with hoods and scarves covering their face.
Rumours that riots in Tottenham last night were due to spread to Enfield were spread across social networking sites earlier this afternoon, but riot police were lined up outside Enfield Town station carrying out stop-and-searches on those arriving.
Trouble flared at around 6.30pm, before police pushed back the group past the Tesco store in Southbury Road.
London Riots, Day 3: Violence spreads to Hackney
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Kyaemon
August 13, 2011 at 3:04 pm
MUST SEE! BIRMINGHAM RIOTS LIVE FOOTAGE-ROMFORD-TOTTENHAM-EALING-NOW
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A POLICE car has been attacked in Enfield Town amid clashes between rioters and police.
The vehicle in Church Street was pelted with bricks, while police have confirmed that two shops were targeted by gangs of people with hoods and scarves covering their face.
Rumours that riots in Tottenham last night were due to spread to Enfield were spread across social networking sites earlier this afternoon, but riot police were lined up outside Enfield Town station carrying out stop-and-searches on those arriving.
Trouble flared at around 6.30pm, before police pushed back the group past the Tesco store in Southbury Road
MANCHESTER_LIVERPOOL UNREST – AUGUST
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A POLICE car has been attacked in Enfield Town amid clashes between rioters and police.
The vehicle in Church Street was pelted with bricks, while police have confirmed that two shops were targeted by gangs of people with hoods and scarves covering their face.
Rumours that riots in Tottenham last night were due to spread to Enfield were spread across social networking sites earlier this afternoon, but riot police were lined up outside Enfield Town station carrying out stop-and-searches on those arriving.
Trouble flared at around 6.30pm, before police pushed back the group past the Tesco store in Southbury Road.
Kyaemon
August 14, 2011 at 12:31 am
London Riots 2011 LIVE Footage of Rioting & Looting IN ENGLAND-Who is to Blame?
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Kyaemon
August 14, 2011 at 2:36 pm
England riots: justice grinds on as courts sit through the night
Rioters appear to accept the inevitability of a life going nowhere
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/14/riots-courts-justice-metropolitan-police?intcmp=239
Some weeks are longer than others. In the early hours of Friday, at Horseferry Road magistrates court, around the corner from the Houses of Parliament, the riots of three or four nights ago felt like something that had happened in another time and place altogether.
One effect of our attention-deficit news culture is to collapse narratives into fast forward. In that respect, everyone in court number one had already lived through 24-hour cycles of tension, violence, anarchy, horror, cleanup, clampdown, fightback, soul-searching and recrimination. And that was all by Wednesday. The determined grind of retributive justice was about all that remained.
In parliament, some hours (or was it days?) earlier, the prime minister had made much of the symbolism of courts sitting through the night up and down the land “ensuring swift justice”. The will for speed was there, but British justice has its own stubborn pace, and is more often a properly wearying business, the bureaucratic accretion of fact and referral, and rarely can it have felt more so than in court one at getting on for two o’clock in the morning.
The duty solicitors and court officials had clocked up 16 hours or more by then – but the charge sheets and supporting documentation kept coming, though rarely by now quite on cue or simultaneously. At midnight, the talk had been of a dozen new adult arrivals, plus a couple of juveniles, in the cells downstairs. “They are being bussed in from all over London,” someone explained. The police wagons were queuing around the block…..
Kyaemon
August 15, 2011 at 2:29 pm
London assays riots cost, promises safe 2012 Olympics
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/12/c_131046033.htm
LONDON, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — London vowed to take tough measures to punish rioters and maintain peace while starting to assess losses Thursday after the worst rioting and looting in decades hit English cities.
Only a year before London hosts the 2012 Olympics, Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain needed to reassure the world that what had happened was “not in any way representative of our country – nor of our young people.”
VERIFYING LOSSES
England experienced its first quiet night Wednesday after four consecutive nights of rioting, first in London and then in cities in the northwest, the midlands and the west.
The presence of 16,000 police officers on the streets of London deterred would-be rioters from repeating the scenes of Saturday to Monday night, which culminated in a crescendo of violence that saw shops burnt and looted, people attacked, and buses hijacked and destroyed across many parts of the capital.
The Association of British Insurers estimated total damage at more than 200 million pounds (324 million U.S. dollars), doubling its previous claims estimate.
Cameron promised to compensate people whose property was damaged by rioters, even if they were uninsured.
All those made homeless would be rehoused, and businesses could claim compensation from government, with the deadline to make claims extended from 14 days to 42 days.
Cameron also announced tax breaks for businesses affected, and tax deferments to help them cope.
Media said the government was setting up a 20-million-pound (32.4-million-dollar) support scheme to help businesses get back up and running quickly.
It is also setting up a 10-million-pound (16.2-million-dollar) “Recovery Scheme” to provide additional support to councils to make areas safe and clean again….
Kyaemon
August 15, 2011 at 2:37 pm
How has technology affected the riots in England?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9563177.stm
Following the riots in England, text messaging and social networks such as Twitter could be turned off during disturbances – under plans being considered by the government.
Spencer Kelly examines whether BlackBerry Messenger, Twitter and Facebook can be blamed for the trouble and if it would be possible to silence them.
What Los Angeles can teach the UK on riot control
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14501282
Prime Minister David Cameron is to consult US “supercop” Bill Bratton on how to deal with city rioting. Mr Bratton, the former New York and Los Angeles police chief, is credited with dramatically reducing crime after the 1992 riots on LA.
The burning buildings, looting, and clashes with police in Britain this week have brought back some vivid memories in Los Angeles.
In 1992, riots sparked by a row over racism spread across the city and for six days the fires burned and the violence raged.
Until a week ago they were the defining images of urban rioting etched on the public memory here and around the world.
Now David Cameron is turning to the man who is credited with restoring law and order in the city – former LAPD chief Bill Bratton – dubbed a “US Supercop” by the British newspapers.
At one point he was apparently being considered for the job as Britain’s
top policeman, the new Commissioner of London’s Metropolitan police.
Twenty years ago, Mr Bratton had a mountain to climb in urban California.
“Looking at the pictures coming out of London really brings back memories of what happened here in Los Angeles 20 years ago,” said Commander Andrew Smith, then a Los Angeles Police Department street officer.
He showed me a photograph taken on the day violence erupted in 1992 – a little faded but clearly showing him standing in the middle of the road holding a shotgun upright in one hand, burning buildings all around him….
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Kyaemon
August 15, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Birmingham violence: Families praise ‘calm’ reactions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14516692
13 August 2011 Last updated at 08:50 ET Help
The families of three men killed when hit they were by a car in Birmingham during the riots have praised people for remaining calm following the event.
Abdullah Khan, uncle of Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir, said their deaths were the result of a “pure criminal act”.
Tariq Jahan, father of Haroon Jahan, thanked everyone in the country for their condolences and thanked young people for staying calm.
Kyaemon
August 16, 2011 at 6:53 am
Cameron, Miliband row over causes of riots
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/16/c_131050975.htm
LONDON, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) — The riots in London and other English cities last week have reshaped the political agenda for the government under Prime Minister David Cameron and the main opposition Labor Party leader Ed Miliband.
Both party leaders were united last week in condemning the riots when they spoke in a debate in the House of Commons, exceptionally recalled from its summer holidays.
However, both were embroiled in a heated row over policing after the riots this week.
Cameron has the advantage as he is able to implement policy. In a speech in his Oxfordshire constituency, Cameron put together a network of policies designed to appeal to a public horrified by the violence of last week.
The prime minister announced an “all-out war” on street gangs, and laid much of the blame for the riots on “children without fathers, schools without discipline, reward without effort, crime without punishment, rights without responsibilities and communities without control.”
He promised tougher policing and reform of how the police are managed with elected police commissioners, while pledging that government policies would be focused on the family as a stabilizing force in society.
Cameron criticized the policies of past governments which had pulled back from tough policing and extended the already extensive welfare system.
“Some of the worst aspects of human nature have been tolerated, indulged — sometimes even incentivized — by a state and its agencies that in parts have become literally demoralized,” he said.
“For years we’ve had a (welfare) system that encourages the worst in people — that incites laziness, that excuses bad behavior, that erodes self-discipline, that discourages hard work — above all that drains responsibility away from people,” he added.
In a further blast for the Labor governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who ruled from 1997 to 2010, Cameron attacked their legacy of a dogmatic human rights agenda and health and safety culture.
Cameron said there had been a “twisting and misrepresenting of human rights that has undermined personal responsibility” as well as an “obsession with health and safety that has eroded people’s willingness to act according to common sense.”
Labor’s Miliband, in the meantime, accused Cameron of producing “knee-jerk gimmick” policies, designed to keep the voters happy that were “shallow and simplistic.”
Speaking to an audience at his old school in a riot-hit area of north London, Miliband blamed poverty as one of the main reasons behind the riots.
He said that his party when in government had failed to tackle inequality in society and that had contributed to the riots.
Cameron’s policies are centered around a moral tone, which runs the risk of upsetting voters who do not like being lectured and also offering a hostage to fortune — bad behavior by government members in future would be embarrassing.
But Miliband has problems too. The riots come after 13 years of Labor rule in which public spending on problem areas was increased and many new initiatives were introduced for just the sort of people who last week smashed up their neighborhoods. Many voters are asking if Labor’s policy now needs to be radically different.
However, both leaders were united in blaming a culture of corruption and greed in politics, in journalism and in banking which had created an atmosphere which fostered the anger and resentment that lay behind some of the rioting.
“In the highest offices, the plushiest boardrooms, the most influential jobs, we need to think about the example we are setting. Moral decline and bad behavior is not limited to a few of the poorest parts of our society,” Cameron stated.
Miliband spoke in a similar manner, “Bankers who took millions while destroying people’s savings; MPs who fiddled their expenses; and people who hacked phones to get stories to make money for themselves.” All were “greedy, selfish and immoral,” he said.
“People who talk about the sick behavior of those without power, should talk equally about the sick behavior of those with power,” he said.
Kyaemon
August 17, 2011 at 1:35 am
Cameron defends ‘zero tolerance’ policy
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/08/2011814181957788730.html
British prime minister reaffirms commitment to anti-crime policy, as police chiefs criticise appointment of new adviser.
David Cameron, the British prime minister, has reiterated that his government will take a “zero tolerance” approach to cracking down on rioters, even as British police chiefs criticised his decision to hire a former US police chief to help organise a response to last week’s violence.
“We haven’t talked the language of zero tolerance enough, but the message is getting through,” Cameron told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
Four days of rioting, looting and arson in London, the British capital, and other cities left several people dead and sparked a nationwide debate on the causes and possible responses to the violence.
Cameron rejected the argument that underlying social factors played a major role in fuelling public resentment and thus prolonged the riots. He said such an approach was over-complicated, though he did concede that certain social issues, including “deeply broken and troubled families”, did need to be addressed.
Theresa May, the UK interior minister, backed Cameron, saying that the public wanted “tough action”.
‘Not achievable’
William Bratton, the man credited with reducing street crime during his stints as police chief in the US cities of New York, Los Angeles and Boston, said, however, that “zero tolerance” was a “a phrase I hate”.
“I would not advocate attempting zero tolerance in any country. It’s not achievable. It implies you can eliminate a problem and that’s not reality,” Bratton wrote in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
Bratton listed a slew of measures, including understanding how groups of rioters worked and using injunctions to curb their activities.
Hugh Orde, the head of the British police chief’s body, however, reacted angrily to the hiring of Bratton as an adviser.
“I am not sure I want to learn about gangs from an area of America that has 400 of them,” Orde told The Independent on Sunday newspaper.
The UK’s policemen have already expressed dissatisfaction with government plans to cut their budgets amid wider austerity measures. Cameron had early accused British police of being too slow in their reaction to the riots.
Tim Godwin, the acting Metropolitan Police chief, also weighed in, accusing the government of “inconsistency” over how tough the police were expected to be following allegations of heavy-handedness in the G20 protests in 2009.
Godwin said that police commanders would decide on Monday whether or not to reduce the number of police officers on London’s streets, which currently stands at 16,000.
Peace rally held
More than 2,140 people have now been arrested in connection with the riots, of whom around 1,000 have been charged.
The first suspects to be charged over deaths related to the riots appeared in court on Sunday.
Joshua Donald, 26, and a 17-year-old male who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before a Birmingham Magistrates’ Court after being charged with the murder of three men who were hit by a car while defending their neighbourhood.
Scores of people observed a minute’s silence at a peace rally in Birmingham later on Sunday, where Tariq Jahan, the father of one of the victims, told the assembled crowd that the three men had “died for the community”.
Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31, suffered fatal injuries after being hit by a car in the early hours of Wednesday in the Winson Green area of the central England city.
Chris Sims, the West Midlands police chief, said he had been invited to address the meeting. He said that the invitation showed that policing was being seen as “part of the solution not part of the problem” in the area.
He added that it “feels a million miles from the debates apparently raging in Westminster”.
“I’m absolutely confident that my officers have shown great bravery,” he told the assembled crowd. “We will bring to justice people that have broken the law and we will use some compassion for those that deserve compassion as well.”
Kyaemon
August 19, 2011 at 3:52 am
England riots: day four aftermath –Wednesday 10 August 2011
This blog has ended. Coverage continues here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/10/manchester-riots-uk-disorder-day-four-live?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Kyaemon
August 20, 2011 at 4:09 am
London riots: Police continue raids in hunt for suspected looters – video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/15/london-riots-police-raids-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486
Police officers are continuing to raid properties across London in an attempt to bring more charges against the rioters and looters following last week’s disturbances in the capital.
Among the items recovered over the weekend were cash tills taken from a shop, weapons, and drugs. More than 1,500 people have so far been arrested with almost 900 charged
Kyaemon
August 20, 2011 at 2:55 pm
David Cameron visits riot-hit Tottenham – video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/16/david-cameron-riot-tottenham-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486
Prime minister David Cameron visited Tottenham in north London to talk to people affected by the disturbances which sparked violence around the country.
He toured a leisure centre being used to provide food and clothing for up to 200 people made homeless by the fires which swept the area, and went to the fire station to discuss challenges the emergency services had faced. He also met people whose homes had been destroyed
Kyaemon
August 21, 2011 at 1:07 am
UK riots: More than 1,000 arrests strain legal system to the limit
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/10/london-riots-spark-copycat-birmingham?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Courts sit overnight as fragile calm prevails in London but Birmingham, Manchester and elsewhere see looting and fires
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Courts have sat through the night to deal with criminal charges from four nights of looting and rioting in English cities.
In London many of the accused are thought to have been remanded on bail with curfews. Extra court sittings were being arranged elsewhere as David Cameron gave carte blanche to the police on manpower and tactics, including the use of water cannon. This was despite comments on Tuesday from the home secretary, Theresa May, playing down the likelihood of their use.
The prime minister said he expected anyone convicted of violent disorder to go to prison. More than 1,100 people have been arrested in centres including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol and Leicester.
Cheshire police said eight people in their area had been arrested on suspicion of inciting public disorder through the use of social media sites. One, a 20-year-old man from Northwich, has been charged with intentionally encouraging the commission of an offence. He will appear before the town’s magistrates.
The Metropolitan police arrested 81 people on Tuesday night in the capital, where it was much quieter with 16,000 police officers from forces around the country on the streets. The Met said a 21-year-old man had been arrested in connection with a large fire that destroyed a furniture store in Croydon on Monday.
Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham bore the brunt of the latest rioting and looting, with trouble also erupting in Liverpool, Salford, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, Bristol and Gloucester.
In Birmingham a murder inquiry is under way after three British Asian men were killed by a car in a suspected hit-and-run. Police had not established whether there was any direct link to disturbances in the city apart from the sheer numbers on the streets.
In Manchester police warned looters: “We are coming for you,” and in London a senior police officer said vigilante groups set up to protect shops and homes were hampering police operations.
There were reports of people seeking to prevent looting in suburbs including Enfield and Eltham, where there were supporters of the English Defence League present, and Southall, where Sikhs protected their temple.
Downing Street rejected an appeal from the London mayor, Boris Johnson, to think again about cutting police numbers after the unrest. It said cuts had to be made to deal with the UK’s deficit……
Kyaemon
August 25, 2011 at 6:31 am
Why riot incitement sentences vary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14640471
A four month jail sentence on a man who posted an invitation on Facebook to start a riot has been criticised by a Tory member of the Welsh assembly as too lenient.
David Glyn Jones, of Bangor, Gwynedd, was convicted by Caernarfon magistrates after admitting a charge under the Communications Act.
Clwyd West AM Darren Millar said: “I’m disappointed that he only got four months … the public will want to see individuals made examples of.”
At an earlier trial at Chester Crown Court, two men were each jailed for four years for offences under the Serious Crime Act.
The BBC’s legal affairs correspondent, Clive Coleman, told BBC Wales’ Sian Lloyd that the cases were very different.