ENGLAND RIOTS IV
Kyaemon
Riots in England enter a 4th night – Framework – Photos and Video – Visual Storytelling from the Los Angeles Times
http://framework.latimes.com/2011/08/08/london-riots/#/0
http://framework.latimes.com/2011/08/08/london-riots/#/0
Riots in England enter a 4th night
- Posted By: Jerome Adamstein
- Posted On: 7:48 p.m. | August 8, 2011
Violence flared in London and other parts of Britain for the fourth night Tuesday.
Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton reported some violence and relatively minor skirmishes between police and groups roaming the streets.
London, where the police presence was nearly tripled from the night before, reportedly remained free of widespread violence late Tuesday night. On previous nights, shops were looted and cars and businesses torched as part of the rioting that began Saturday.
British officials sharply increased police presence in London and elsewhere to try to control the country’s worst uprising in years. About 16,000 officers were being deployed to try to accomplish what some observers described as “reclaiming the streets.”
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London rioters battle police Photos | London rioters battle police Pictures – Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/london-rioters-battle-police-1312703679-slideshow/
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London’s ‘Operation Riot Clean-up’ Photos | London’s ‘Operation Riot Clean-up’ Pictures – Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/london-s-operation-riot-clean-up–1312924813-slideshow/
As Riots Spread Beyond London, Cameron Tries On an Iron Fist
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2087759,00.html
How Can London Stop the Riots? 8 Answers From an Expert
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/10/how-can-london-stop-the-riots-8-answers-from-an-expert/
London Riots: See Videos of the Chaos
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/08/08/londons-riots-see-videos-of-the-chaos/
Riots Spread Across England
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2087234_2301149,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2087701,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2087701,00.html
PM DAVID CAMERON
LONDON MAYOR BORIS JOHNSON
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aungnng87
August 12, 2011 at 9:48 am
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Cupcake
August 14, 2011 at 6:02 am
Second meeting between Aung San Suu Kyi and labour minister saying more coordination will be made. Information Committee first presser in Naypyidaw.Thousands more police officers are being deployed in the English cities affected by recent riots and looting.Burma Debate on Myitsone Dam and its consequences.
Kyaemon
August 12, 2011 at 9:59 am
LONDON RIOTS — POLICE AND LOOTERS IN FIERCE BATTLE AS SUPERMARKET IS LOOTED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-ywupY4Xr8&feature=related
INTERVIEW WITH LONDON LOOTERS “IM GETTING MY TAXES BACK”!!! AUGUST 8 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrrqEMlhLq4&feature=related
Some ethnics confronted about them looting. This was in Clapham junction in south london. Prime minister Cameron has called an emrgency(emergency) COBRA meeting for tuesday morning. Marshall (martial) law on the way?
Kyaemon
August 12, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Breaking News London Riots Woolwich High st 12:30AM AUGUST 9 2011
Police Overrun in Woolwich -London Riots 8/8/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrHKpjHNpZg&feature=related
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…..What started as a peaceful protest for justice, turned into a full scale riot, against the British justice system.
Now what I will say, is that this very unfortunate situation with Mr Mark Duggan, was the fuel to spark an already disillusioned urban british youth culture.
This is not a black issue, as so many are stating, its a culture sticking it back to the man.
I am a qualified youth leader and motivational speaker.
I have worked in urban locations such as this, and the general message is a feeling of disconnection with the government in general. its not a conservative or labour issue. its just government as a whole.
The youths of today are fed up of being lied to. Example of school tuitions promised by Lib deems to not be raised but raised anyway once they got into power.
Most of the youths of today cannot relate to the Middle to wealthy class David Cameron’s of this world, whose hug a hoodie statement raised a few eyebrows within most urban communities…..
Police Overrun in Woolwich -London Riots 8/8/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=ib5edeXXEN0
Woolwich SOUTH EAST LONDON
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Kyaemon
August 13, 2011 at 3:01 pm
UK riots 2011 Thug filmed setting fire to shop in Manchester
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x0xDICuoc4&NR=1
UK RIOTS LONDON : 8 august 2011 Elephant and castle walworth road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LO7PBjmmQ&feature=related
Riots supposedly caused, but, by no means definately, by a lack of communiction within the London community
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London Riots – Elephant and Castle 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4upHJRm4t3U&feature=related
Police charge at bystanders on a side street. In the background a man is on the ground with a stab wound.
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Kyaemon
August 14, 2011 at 12:27 am
Birmingham Riots 2011 – 3 Men Murdered For Protecting Their Business
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTPlB1lWPUo&feature=related
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Tension is high in Birmingham following the death of three men struck by a car while protecting local businesses.
There is a real fear that the events of last night have stirred racial tensions in this city between some Asian and black communities. There is talk of retaliation and further violence.
When looters went on the rampage on Monday night, dozens of local businesses were attacked. Family businesses that had taken years to establish were ransacked in hours. Yesterday, many of the owners told me they weren’t going to allow it to happen again.
In areas like the Soho Road in Handsworth, they started closing early. “We don’t trust the police to be able to look after us,” one man said. “So we’re going to do it ourselves.”
Some resorted to extreme measures
When we drove to the area, we found an awful scene. A young black man was lying on the pavement with serious injuries. The police had cordoned off the area around him and were waiting for an ambulance to arrive. The police would not release details of what had happened, but that did not stop the rumours. Several people told me that a convoy of black men in cars had driven past one of the temples and taunted a group of Asian men. A small group had retaliated, dragging one out of his car and beating him up.
We drove to Birmingham’s City hospital in Winsom Green. Outside the hospital, we found riot police guarding the entrance.
“I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” one nurse told me.
A group of Muslims had gathered. Some were crying. Others were praying. They were there to pay their respects. An hour earlier, three young men from their community had been guarding a restaurant nearby. It’s claimed that two cars approached them and deliberately ran them over. The police were treating the incident as murder.
“We were attacked and yet the police are here at the hospital as if we were the ones who did the violence. They’re only making the situation worse,” one relative told me.
“This situation is out of control now,” said another man.
“People here are angry. There’s going to be more violence, people were want revenge for this. They want somebody to pay.”
Kyaemon
August 14, 2011 at 2:29 pm
London riots: frightened and angry, Tottenham residents seek answers
The reasons behind the violence and looting in London are complex and deep-rooted
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/13/tottenham-riots-youth-hackney-haringey?intcmp=239
Cupcake
August 15, 2011 at 3:04 am
The London riots, spontaneous and nihilist as they are, will be replaced by more conscious attempts to change the status quo and their success woud depend on the legitimacy and soundness of the ideological leadership they woud get, especially from more organised sectors of the downtrodden such as the working class.
London protests also show that Western democracies and their conception of democracy are also not infallible as they claim to be. There is much wanting in their governance, justice, social equity and social responsibility.Though Cameron questioned the ethics and morals of youth it is time to question the ethics and morals of capitalism, which usually rewards big criminals such as Wall Street and London bankers involved in fraud and cheating while sending lesser criminals such as shop looters to prison.
The one-size-fits-all approach and universal prescriptions of the World Bank and the IMF on democracy and good governance will not suit the developing nations. They will have to search for native roots to democracy and good governance.
Kyaemon
August 15, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Cameron: Riot-hit UK must reverse ‘moral collapse’
Cameron: Riot-hit UK must reverse ‘moral collapse’ – Yahoo! News
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron declared Monday that Britain faces a battle to find its moral compass following four days of riots that left five people dead, thousands facing charges for violence and theft, and at least 200 million pounds ($350 million) in property losses.
Cameron said senior ministers of his 2-year-old coalition government would spend the next few weeks formulating new policies designed to reverse what he described as a country being dragged down by many citizens’ laziness, irresponsibility and selfishness. He said “the responsible majority” was demanding that the government build “a stronger society.”
“This has been a wake-up call for our country. Social problems that have been festering for decades have exploded in our face,” Cameron said in his prepared remarks for a planned Monday morning speech. “Do we have the determination to confront the slow-motion moral collapse that has taken place in parts of our country these past few generations?”
He issued his call hours after several hundred residents of Birmingham, England’s second-largest city, rallied for peace and racial unity in memory of three Pakistani men run over and killed during last week’s riots there. Asian, black and white locals joined hand in hand with police officers during the ceremony.
Birmingham police also charged a third suspect with the murders of Haroon Jahan, 20, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31….
Kyaemon
August 15, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Riots: Arrest over death of Richard Bowes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14500869
A 68-year-old man who was critically injured while he tried to stamp out a fire during riots in west London has died, Scotland Yard says.
Richard Bowes suffered head injuries in an attack in Ealing on Monday night and was left in a coma.
A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Police have said four other deaths – a man found shot in a car in Croydon and three men hit by a car in Birmingham – may be linked to the recent disorder.
The 22-year-old was held in west London and has been arrested on suspicion of murder, rioting and burglary.
Mr Bowes, of Haven Green, Ealing, is believed to have been attacked after remonstrating with some teenagers who were setting fire to two industrial bins on Spring Bridge Road.
‘Jumped on him’
Police officers were then pelted with missiles as they came to his aid. Detectives have issued an image of a man they identified as a “strong suspect”.
A witness, who gave his name as Jim and runs businesses in Ealing, said rioters had attacked Mr Bowes when he tried to put out a fire they had started in a supermarket bin near the Arcadia shopping centre.
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The aftermath of riots and the scars left behind
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14512569
12 August 2011 Last updated at 14:57 ET Help
It will take time for some communities to return to normality after the riots in parts of England this week.
Scenes of looting and public disorder have sparked a major debate on the challenges facing our society.
However, for many of those who have lost homes or businesses, there are more immediate concerns.
The BBC’s Allan Little looks at the aftermath of the riots and the impact they have had on ordinary people.
Kyaemon
August 15, 2011 at 2:40 pm
England riots: Suspects appear in court
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14512478
12 August 2011 Last updated at 14:50 ET Help
More than 1,600 people in England have been arrested in connection to the recent riots, suspected of a variety of offences relating to the disorder.
Courts are continuing to process a stream of riot-related cases and police have been raiding homes to arrest suspected rioters and looters.
Kyaemon
August 15, 2011 at 3:42 pm
State Aid Failed to Stem U.K. Unrest
Tottenham, Site of Past Violence, Saw Renewed Clashes Despite Government Efforts to Boost the Area
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904823804576502471452310218.html
State Aid Failed to Stem U.K. Unrest – WSJ.com
LONDON—After furious race riots broke out in London’s Tottenham area 26 years ago, government and local authorities poured millions of pounds into the district and especially Broadwater Farm estate, a notorious housing project that was the epicenter of the 1985 unrest.
Yet last week, Tottenham returned to an unwelcome spotlight as the point of ignition for riots here—and this time the unrest spread far beyond the neighborhood, to other parts of London and distant cities like Birmingham and Manchester.
What started as a peaceful protest over the killing of a local man by police was quickly seized on as an …
Kyaemon
August 16, 2011 at 7:00 am
UK gov’t, police into blame game over riots
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2011-08/15/c_131049898.htm
BEIJING, Aug. 15 (Xinhuanet) — As London returns to normal after 4-days of rioting, the British government and senior police officials are disagreeing over who is most to blame for failing to stop the social unrest.
Police officers claim that budget cuts reduced their manpower, hampering their efforts to restore order. But Prime Minister David Cameron insists the cuts would not hit frontline officers. Yang Wei-han has more.
The British government’s austerity measures will slash 80 billion pounds from public spending by 2015 to reduce the country’s swollen budget deficit.
Police budgets are also on the list.
London Mayor Boris Johnson broke with the government, saying such cuts were wrong and that people need to see police out on the streets.
Johnson said, “The case I make to government and I’m going to continue to make is that (police) numbers matter. And I think that the numbers we’ve got on the streets of London now, they are up on when I came in, but it’s vital that we keep them high.”
Chief of British Transport Police echoed Johnson’s statement.
Andy Trotter, chief constable of British Transport Police said, “We’ve got to be sensible in the way we do it, but we cannot pretend that the scale of cuts that we face will not impact upon the front line of policing, it is simply not possible.”
Cameron’s Conservative Party, faces pressure to scrap plans to cut spending on the police, as well as calls for more funding in Britain’s deprived inner cities. In the short term, Cameron and his 15-month-old coalition government look to have been damaged by the riots.
But an election does not have to be called until 2015, giving him breathing space and time for a nuanced reponse.
However, Cameron may run into conflict with his Lib Dem coalition partners if he responds to the riots only by cracking down on law and order while ignoring social problems that may lie behind the unrest.
And further outbreaks of rioting could be fatal to Cameron’s chances of retaining power.
Kyaemon
August 17, 2011 at 1:39 am
Londoners: Rioting through the ages
Although Britain has a long history of civil uprisings, the recent riots lack a clear political or moral consciousness.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/08/2011891626155535.html
Back in the summer of 2010, as Chancellor George Osborne announced a swingeing package of public sector cuts, many journalists wondered why Britain, unlike other European countries, appeared phlegmatic about such severe austerity measures. Was this is simply an example of the British “stiff-upper lip”, that stoical Britons don”t “do” civil disobedience?
These are questions that the past year has rendered ridiculous. London has seen serious riots break out at student demonstrations in November and December 2010, while peaceful mass demonstration organised by the Trades Union Congress in March of this year descended into violence as groups of demonstrators occupying Trafalgar Square clashed with police.
The looting and arson that has scarred London and now other English cities represents the most frightening apparent manifestation of this public discontent. Yet, unlike the student riots or mass demonstrations, there are seemingly few precedents in British history for the kinds of violent disturbances the country has witnessed in the past few days. Indeed, it is the lack of a clear context (social, historical or otherwise) that makes them so terrifying.
Rebels without a cause?
Britain is certainly no stranger to serious rioting or civil disturbance. Many of the areas of England affected by looting, such as Toxteth in Liverpool and Brixton in South London, have a history of unrest. There appear to be parallels, too, in the way that the death of Mark Duggan has led to rioting in Tottenham, just as the death of Cynthia Jarrett provoked the Broadwater Farm riots in the same borough of Haringey in 1985.
But in the case of the Broadwater Farm riots, and those in Brixton and Toxteth in 1981, these disturbances were clearly prompted by allegations of police racism and brutality. These accusations were partially upheld by official investigations into these riots, such as the Scarman report of 1981. The 1999 Macpherson Report into the Metropolitan Police’s handling of the investigation of the murder of Stephen Lawrence, with its frank indictment of the force as “institutionally racist”, ultimately led to significant changes in the conduct of policing in London. Most of those who have discussed police/community relations in the light the rioting in Tottenham, Hackney and Brixton acknowledge that there have been considerable improvements.
Indeed, whatever negative views some Londoners may still have of the Met, what is striking is the degree of consensus among commentators that Mark Duggan’s death has been used as a little more than a pretext by those involved in this weekend’s destruction.
Damage to property has, of course, been a feature of many violent protests in Britain’s past. The Suffragettes famously targeted gentleman’s outfitters as symbols of patriarchal oppression. More recently, anti-capitalist protesters have often targeted major global brands such as McDonalds and Starbucks.
But the youths involved in this August’s unrest have hit local independent shops and chain stores alike – the only discrimination evident is the value placed on particular goods. It has been the accoutrements of urban youth – box-fresh trainers, smart phones, clothes – which have been most readily plundered. The only ideology on display, if it can even be called that, is that of the kindergarten: “Finders keepers”.
If this were merely run-of-the-mill shoplifting, the nation would not be in a state of near-panic, but gangs of looters have now hit cities across England. Here analysts have pointed to similarities with recent protest movements, most notably those of the “Arab Spring”, which have harnessed social media to coordinate and mobilise support. But even if gangs have been organised through BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) – significantly, a very closed form of social networking – the comparison is more insulting than helpful. These are not brave campaigners for democracy and Reeve’s Corner, Croyden, is certainly not Britain’s Tahrir Square. The youths emptying sporting goods stores across the land, unlike previous generations of British rebels, have no manifesto. As a result, there are no demands that authorities in Britain can easily meet in order to pacify them. Yet, even as apolitical as they are, the looters pose a very serious threat to the British government.
Who governs?
In the English civil war of 1642-6, mob violence played an important role in forcing the king, Charles I, to abandon his capital city. The same pattern unfolded during the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688, as anti-Catholic rioting led Charles’ son, James II, to flee.
Civil disorder, as recent history demonstrates, can also fatally undermine the credibility of an elected government. In February 1974, in the wake of crippling strikes by the National Union of Mine Workers, the debilitated administration of Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath called an election, using the slogan: “Who Governs Britain?” Whoever did govern Britain, it was not Edward Heath: the British electorate delivered the first hung Parliament since 1929 and serious industrial action plagued the country for a decade more, playing no small part in the defeat of Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1979.
Eleven years later, civil unrest once again cost a prime minister their job. The poll tax riots of March 1990, which began as a peaceful demonstration against the Thatcher government’s hated new tax, the Community Charge, turned into a riot in Trafalgar Square, leaving more than a hundred people injured and resulted in the arrest of 339 people. Though the violence was condemned by both government and activists alike, the strength of opposition to the community charge led to its abandonment and fundamentally weakened Margaret Thatcher’s authority: the “Iron Lady” who “wasn’t for turning” had been cowed into a humiliating U-turn.
The current PM, David Cameron, has now chosen to return home early from holiday in Tuscany to take control of the developing crisis. Cameron clearly understands that a weak response to events could ultimately cost him his job, as it has some of his predecessors. The difficulty is that past precedent indicates that a hard-line response could be equally as disastrous.
From ‘hug a hoodie’ to ‘hang a hoodie’
The public anger provoked by the scenes of looting and violence that have played out over August 6-8 is evident in calls for the British police to employ tougher tactics – water cannon and baton rounds – and in demands for military intervention.
As scenes of feral, masked youth plundering at will fill the nation’s television screens, Cameron’s 2006 injunction to supporters to “hug a hoodie”, delivered as he attempted to re-brand the Tories as “compassionate Conservatives”, now appears embarrassingly naive. For the moment, however, Cameron has resisted calls for more extreme measures, looking instead to flood London’s streets with enough officers to suppress any disturbance.
History suggests that this is a sensible response. Leaving aside the fact that the present British armed forces are themselves stretched to breaking point by international commitments and the impact of government cuts, the history of military intervention in quelling civil disorder is not a happy one.
Before the emergence of organised local and national police forces in the nineteenth century, the army was the only significant weapon that the British government had to suppress riot and insurrection. The last time that London experienced successive nights of lawlessness on a scale comparable with present unrest, during the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of June 2-9, 1780, George III’s decision to send in the troops, while ending the unrest, resulted in the death of more than two hundred people.
It was the use of troops to disperse a crowd of peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, on August 16, 1819, that led to the infamous “Peterloo Massacre”, in which fifteen people died and a further four hundred were injured. The much more recent, but equally bitter experience of British troops patrolling the streets of Northern Ireland, offers a further reminder that soldiers are not policemen and that their presence will often inflame rather than pacify tensions.
The revival of tactics such as the use of “sus” laws – broad-ranging stop and search powers – by police is rumoured to have already triggered more violence in Hackney. It is entirely possible that the deployment of water cannon and rubber bullets might do the same – especially were someone to be seriously injured through the use of these devices. But if the temptation to adopt an overly aggressive stance towards the looters should be resisted, the question of what to do instead offers no easy answers.
Many liberal commentators have suggested that the government’s own austerity measures have produced these disturbances, but if that is an explanation, it is only a partial one. The impact of these cuts is really only just being felt. Cutting further may well provoke more rioting – but the uncomfortable truth is that the events of the past few days have been the result of decades, not months of neglect, deprivation and widening social inequality. It may well take decades more to address these inequalities.
Yet the tangled causes of urban decay in this country must be unravelled. Otherwise, Britain may be faced with a social menace that cannot be stopped, because this rebellion, unlike past insurrections, has no political or moral consciousness, only an indiscriminate urge to consume and destroy.
Dr Ted Vallance is Reader in history at Roehampton University and the author of A Radical History of Britain (Abacus, 2010).
Kyaemon
August 19, 2011 at 3:48 am
Riot copycats in Liverpool lash out at police and neighbours
Small businesses bear the brunt of damage as rioters take to the streets to smash and burn Toxteth
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/10/riot-liverpool-birkenhead-police?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Kyaemon
August 19, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Prison population reaches record level in wake of riots
Governors describe ‘unprecedented situation’ as over 700 of those charged with riot-related offences are remanded in custody
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/aug/18/prison-population-record-uk-riots
Kyaemon
August 20, 2011 at 4:16 am
London riots: Met police raid suspected looters – video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/11/london-riots-police-raid-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486
Metropolitan police officers carry out a raid on a property on the Churchill Gardens estate in Pimlico, south-west London on Thursday.
Police hope to recover property stolen during the recent civil disturbances in the capital. Officers have begun a series of raids of addresses across London as they make further arrests connected with the recent riots. More than 100 warrants have been issued already, a senior Scotland Yard officer said
Kyaemon
August 20, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Hackney riots police response – video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/08/london-riots-hackney-police-response?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486
Violence flared in Hackney’s Mare Street area today. John Domokos talks to local residents as police dog units move in
Kyaemon
August 21, 2011 at 1:16 am
Birmingham riots: intense anger after deaths of three young men
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/10/birmingham-riots-anger-deaths?intcmp=239
Community leaders appeal for calm after three British Asians rammed by carload of suspected looters in Winson Green
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Community leaders in Birmingham are working all-out to calm intense anger in the city’s British Asian community over the deaths of three young men who were rammed by a carload of suspected looters.
West Midlands police arrested a man near the scene and recovered a vehicle, which forensics experts are examining. They later launched a murder inquiry.
Groups of residents in Winson Green, the inner-city area where the men were killed as they tried to protect local businesses in the early hours of Wednesday, openly warned of inter-communal violence if the murder inquiry fails to produce rapid results.
Their anger was passed on by the local Labour MP for Ladywood, Shabana Mahmood, and the Bishop of Aston, Rt Rev Andrew Watson, who joined a meeting at Dudley Road mosque, which locals claimed was on looters’ hitlist of targets where money might be found. The victims, brothers Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir, 32 and 30, and Haroon Jahan, 19, were among some 80 young men who turned out after a gang tried to ransack the nearby Jet petrol station on Monday night.
Kyaemon
August 25, 2011 at 6:58 am
London riots: Almost 3,300 offences investigated
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14601604
Police are investigating almost 3,300 offences following the riots and looting in London.
The Metropolitan Police said 1,883 people had been arrested and more than 1,074 charged in connection with the disorder between 6 and 9 August.
The most common crimes were burglary (1,101), damage to vehicles (399), theft (310) and arson (162).
The Met said it had more than 1,100 crime scenes in 22 boroughs, and 20,000 hours of CCTV footage to review.
Figures from the force also show that 396 juveniles have been arrested, of which 218 have been charged.
A Met spokesman said: “There were 3,296 reported total notifiable offences linked to the disorder that occurred across London between 6 and 9 August.”
‘Invaluable assistance’
The trouble started in Tottenham, north London, following a peaceful protest over the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan.
Riots took place over the next few days across London and other English cities, including Birmingham and Manchester.
Two people were murdered in London during the violence.
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In response to the disorder a major investigation was set up by the Met, codenamed Operation Withern.
Cdr Simon Foy said: “We continue to work closely with London’s communities and are extremely grateful for their invaluable assistance.
“With your help we have brought a significant number of people to justice.
“But the scale of the task the Met’s officers face is not to be underestimated.
“Twenty-two of London’s 32 boroughs were affected by the disorder and there are many more people who must answer for their actions.”
Meanwhile, the force has released more than 50 new images of people it wants to speak to in relation to the disorder.
The 52 photographs released on Saturday relate to the looting and violent disorder in Lewisham, Southwark, Greenwich, Merton, Enfield and Hackney on 7, 8 and 9 August.
London riots: Charles and Camilla hear victims’ tales
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14560087
The Prince of Wales has spoken about the “sheer terror” faced by people affected by the riots in London.
The prince and the Duchess of Cornwall have visited areas in London hit by recent violence and looting.
The royals began their tour of the capital in Tottenham and then went to Hackney, Lambeth and Croydon.
In Croydon he said he was pleased the Prince’s Trust was able to get involved in helping young people escape gang culture.
The prince said many of the people whose homes and businesses were damaged by the riots still felt an unease about what was to come next…