ENGLAND RIOTS V
Kyaemon
London Rioting Through The Ages [Slideshow]
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/08/12/london-rioting-through-th_n_925279.html#s327995&title=1381_Ye_Olde
The past twelve months has seen its fair share of protests and disorder, but London has a long history of rioting stretching back many hundreds of years. From Wat Tyler’s mob burning St John’s Monastery in 1381 to the protests of the early 21st Century, we look over some striking images of London protests through the ages.
Hackney, Croydon And Peckham Riots In Pictures
Hackney, Croydon And Peckham Riots In Pictures
Rioting has spread across London, this evening breaking out for the first time in Lewisham, Peckham and Croydon, with disturbances also reported in Ilford and further scuffles breaking out in Hackney – after a standoff between police this afternoon.
London Suffers Third Night Of Violence As Riots Spread
London Suffers Third Night Of Violence As Riots Spread
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London Suffers Third Night Of Violence As Riots SpreadLondon has suffered a third consecutive night of widespread violence and looting, while similar scenes in Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol have resulted in dozens of arrests.
Groups of youths attacked shops and started fires in Peckham, Croydon, Lewisham and Hackney and several other areas, while emergency services struggled to cope.
There were incidents of looting and violence on Woolwich High Street, where a police car was said to have been burned.
Ealing was also targeted, with cars attacked and a Tesco shop plundered. It was reported that looters in Ealing attempted to break in to a Bang & Olufsen shop.
Camden also saw running battles between police and rioters throughout the early hours.
The acting head of the Metropolitan Police urged the public to clear London’s streets and called for parents to keep their children at home on Monday evening, as the atmosphere on London’s streets became increasingly volatile.
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Shops were reported ablaze in Ilford, east London. In Croydon, south London, a huge fire raged at the Reeves Corner furniture store, destroying the 100-year-old building. The store’s owner, Trevor Reeves, called the destruction “mindless thuggery”
In Clapham Junction shops, including a large department store, were looted by up to 200 youths forcing the Metropolitan Police to turn to a fleet of armoured vehicles to push back the crowd.
Video posted to social networking sites depicted shops there including Wimpy and a bookmakers being attacked.
Incidents of violence and looting were also reported in Birmingham, where the BBC said that 35 people had been arrested. There were also reports of unrest in Toxteth, Liverpool, which witnessed similar civil disturbances in the early eighties.
Avon and Somerset Police urged Bristol residents to avoid the city centre amid reports of looting.
In response to the attacks Prime Minister David Cameron is returning back from holiday over night to chair a meeting of COBRA first thing tomorrow. It was also reported that Labour leader Ed Miliband and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg were cancelling holiday plans too.
Earlier in Peckham and Lewisham police lines stopped local residents from entering the area. Speaking to the Huffington Post, Peckham Rye resident Michelle (surname withheld) described the scene as “terrifying”….
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Kyaemon
August 17, 2011 at 1:43 am
Hundreds arrested as London riots spread
Buildings and cars set ablaze in British capital’s worst violence in decades as looting spreads to other British cities.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/08/2011881845588629.html
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Riots have spread to new areas of London while looting erupted in the cities of Birmingham, Liverpool and Bristol as Britain’s worst violence in decades extended into a third night.
Shops and cars were set ablaze across London late on Monday and early on Tuesday with authorities struggling to contain the unrest in the capital city which will host next summer’s Olympic Games.
Police said on Tuesday they had arrested more than 200 people in the worst night of unrest so far and more than 450 overall. David Cameron, the British prime minister, will chair an emergency security meeting on Tuesday to discuss the riots.
Three people were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder in Brent, west London, after a police officer was injured by a car, police said. The incident is believed to have occurred after several cars whose occupants were suspected of participating in looting a local electrical store were stopped by police, police said.
Looting by groups of hooded youths spread on Monday night to Ealing in west London and Camden in the north. Television pictures showed groups running through the streets and smashing shop windows.
Buildings were also set on fire in Croydon, a south London suburb, and in Clapham, where shops and cash machines were looted.
Local residents in Croydon were evacuated due to the spreading fire, while the Guardian newspaper quoted a nearby officer as admitting: “We can’t cope. We have passed breaking point.”
There was also violence on Monday in Hackney in east London, and in the Peckham and Lewisham areas south of the River Thames.
The violence started on Saturday night in Tottenham in north London following protests over the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old black man, Mark Duggan, by police.
Tottenham is an impoverished area with an ethnically diverse population, a large black community and a history of unrest. Some residents resent police behaviour, including the use of stop and search powers, which they say are primarily targeted at black youths.
In Peckham, flames leapt into the air from a torched building, while rubble was strewn across the street. People walked in and out of shops looting. Another building, a Sony warehouse, was ablaze in Enfield, a suburb north of London.
Dozens of riot police were deployed on the streets of Hackney after police cars were damaged, buses attacked and shops looted.
In Notting Hill in west London, rampagers forced their way into an exclusive restaurant, The Ledbury, before stealing diners’ phones, plates off the tables and attempting to take the till.
Unrest spills out
But in a sign that the unrest had spread beyond the capital, attackers smashed shops and looted property in the central England city of Birmingham.
West Midlands Police confirmed they had made 87 arrests as youths ran amok in Birmingham centre overnight, smashing shop windows and looting merchandise. The force also said that a police station was on fire.
Liverpool police said a small number of vehicles were set on fire and reported some criminal damage. They said officers were responding to a number of isolated outbreaks of disorder,” including vehicles set ablaze and buildings attacked in the city’s southern neighbourhoods.
Police reported “copy-cat violence” in Bristol in the southwest and urged people to avoid the city centre after 150 rioters went on the rampage in “volatile scenes”.
Al Jazeera correspondent Barnaby Philips, reporting from Tottenham, said there was anguish and dismay about what had happened over the weekend.
“People realise that jobs, property and investments have been damaged for years to come, and they are very distraught about it. Thankfully Tottenham is calm as of now.”
Crisis meeting
Meanwhile, the prime minister’s office said Cameron, who has faced media criticism for being away on holiday during the riots, would cut short his trip and return to London to chair a crisis meeting on the unrest.
“The violence we’ve seen, the looting we’ve seen, the thuggery we’ve seen, this is sheer criminality … these people will be brought to justice, they will be made to face the consequences of their actions,” said Theresa May, the interior minister, who also cut short her holiday because of the riots.
“It was needless, opportunistic theft and violence, nothing more, nothing less. It is completely unacceptable,” said Nick Clegg, Britain’s deputy prime minister, during a visit to Tottenham.
Scotland Yard commander Christine Jones said Monday night’s events were “simply inexcusable”. At least 35 police officers were injured in the unrest at the weekend. An 11-year-old boy was among those arrested.
Tim Godwin, the acting Metropolitan Police Commissioner, earlier urged parents to “start contacting their children” to find out where they were before slamming “spectators getting in the way of the police operations.”…….
Kyaemon
August 19, 2011 at 3:45 am
Bail refused for many riot accused as courts work overtime
Many of those charged with riot offences from last week have been refused bail by magistrates
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/12/bail-refused-riot-accused-courts?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
10 Heroes of the London Riots
As we reflect on last week’s riots in London, TIME takes a look at those who tried to do good amid the chaos
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2088386_2088390_2088396,00.html
(Some might not really deserve to be called “Heroes.” However, the articles can give us a better understanding of what happened)
Kyaemon
August 19, 2011 at 11:58 am
Vehicles destroyed in London riots
http://english.people.com.cn/90783/91321/7566055.html
A council worker clears the remains of destroyed vehicles in Hackney, north London August 9, 2011. British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would recall parliament from its summer recess for a day on Thursday after rioting swept through London for three consecutive nights. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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What a waste!
Kyaemon
August 20, 2011 at 4:19 am
UK riots: Gang set fire to car in Leeds – video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/13/riots-chapeltown-leeds-cctv-car-fire-video?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486
West Yorkshire police release CCTV footage to help identify people involved in disorder in Chapeltown, Leeds, on Monday night.
The video shows a gang of people pushing a Nissan Micra car into the middle of a road before setting fire to it. Then they throw what appear to be bricks and stones at cars and taxis travelling along the road before attacking emergency service vehicles, including a fire truck that had its windscreen smashed
Kyaemon
August 20, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Home secretary and police chief condemn London violence – video
Theresa May says rioters will be punished while acting Met commissioner Tim Godwin asks that his forces are allowed the space to deal with the violence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/09/london-riots-metropolitan-police?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3486
Kyaemon
August 21, 2011 at 1:21 am
UK riots: True cost of night’s violence begins to emerge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/10/uk-riots-cost-violence?intcmp=239
Shopkeepers in Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and Bristol estimate losses in looted stock as streets are cleared of debris
The true cost of the night’s violence and vandalism across England began to emerge on Wednesday as hospital admissions and arrests were added up, streets cleared of burnt-out vehicles, and shopkeepers attempted to estimate their losses in ruined or looted stock and shattered premises.
The scale of the destruction in Birmingham, Manchester and Salford shocked morning commuters and prompted shopkeepers fearful of a repeat performance to board up premises at lunchtime.
Extensive trouble flared in Bristol, Liverpool and Nottingham, where the council leader said tactics used by the Met police in London – looters in the capital appeared initially to be left to help themselves in ransacked shops – had encouraged people in his city to do the same.
Council leaders in Manchester, Salford and Nottingham also warned that anyone convicted of rioting would be evicted from their council homes.
The violence also spread to Wales for the first time in the early hours of Wednesday, with an outbreak of arson and looting in Cardiff Bay. Smaller towns across England were also affected. In the Thames Valley region police reported “small outbreaks of disorder” in Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes and Slough. In West Mercia extra officers were on patrol and 12 arrests were made across Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, and Worcestershire……..
Kyaemon
August 21, 2011 at 3:39 pm
UK riots: the key facts and figures
How many people have been arrested so far as riots spread across the UK? Get the latest data – updated throughout today and tonight
UK riots: the key facts and figures | News | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/aug/09/uk-riots-data-figures
Arrests so far by police force (since Saturday night): Metropolitan: 1,802 West Midlands: 509 Greater Manchester: 282 Merseyside: 216 Nottinghamshire: 109 Avon & Somerset: 24 West Yorkshire: 23 Leicester: 14 Cambridge: 5 Gloucester: 3 TOTAL: 2,987
London arrests on Monday night: 310
People charged in London so far: 1,032
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Simon Rogers and Lisa Evans Friday 19 August 2011 11.15 BST
guardian.co.uk
Kyaemon
August 22, 2011 at 11:50 am
Croydon woman pictured jumping from burning building too shaken to talk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/10/croydon-woman-jump-burning-building?intcmp=239
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/10/croydon-woman-jump-burning-building?intcmp=239
Polish woman Monika Konczyk leaped into the arms of rescuers as fire engulfed her flat
The first details about the woman pictured leaping from a burning building in Croydon on Monday night have emerged.
Friends have told how they rescued Monika Konczyk from her smoke-filled flat in a moment that has become the defining image of the riots.
The terrified Polish woman, who only arrived in Britain in March, was shouting for help from her first-floor window as the fire that destroyed the neighbouring Reeves furniture store threatened to engulf adjacent buildings.
Apparently defying orders from police not to get any closer to the blaze, friends said they ran through thick smoke and intense heat to the Victorian terrace on Church Street and laid mattresses and pillows on the ground for her to land on.
Onlookers shouted “jump, jump” as Konczyk, 32, was coaxed out of the sash window, sliding down the awning of the discount store below and then jumping into the arms of a Romanian man called Adrian. Police in riot gear also moved in to help.
According to Vaz Juresco, owner of the neighbouring Pain Divine tattoo parlour, Konczyk was unable to escape down the back stairs like other residents because the building had rapidly filled with thick smoke.
“You have no idea – the smoke was like a thick cloud,” said Juresco. “It wasn’t just ash but hot rocks and bits of brick. They were spraying out like a shower.”
In the smoke and confusion there were conflicting accounts of who caught Konczyk. Several onlookers believe a riot policeman caught her when she jumped, but Adrian insisted he caught her.
He said she was weeping with shock but was not taken to hospital and instead was met by her boyfriend and taken to stay with her sister. Konczyk, who is from Koronowo in Poland and was working in a local Poundland, was described as fine but too shaken to talk.
“We are neighbours. Nobody is a hero,” he said.
Kyaemon
August 25, 2011 at 7:05 am
‘I haven’t slept since riots’, Ealing pub manager says
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14533678
Victims’ Stories
A week after rioters ransacked shops and set buildings ablaze in parts of London, many local residents and business owners are struggling with the task of moving on with their lives.
In Ealing Green, the evidence of destroyed buildings and damaged lives is all too apparent.
While some shops are open for business, many remain boarded up.
A burnt-out supermarket, which was set alight by looters in the early hours of Tuesday, is still partially covered by police cordons and scaffolding. Many of the flats above the supermarket remain uninhabitable.
“I am losing thousands of pounds a day. I’m living off my savings until the insurance money comes through – which I’m hoping will be in a couple of weeks’ time – but it could be four to six months until we are able to reopen,” says Ravi Khurmy, 40.
He is the owner of Local Supermarket, which suffered the worst of the local looting before it was set alight.
‘Stuck in limbo’
“I’m absolutely gutted – thinking about it makes my heart sink,” he says.
Zakar Hussain, 35, who owns the closed Green Mango cafe, which is next to the supermarket, is still struggling to come to terms with what has happened to the business he started only four months ago…..
Kyaemon
August 27, 2011 at 11:11 pm
The Salford riots and the greed of the disenfranchised
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/10/salford-riots-greed-disenfranchised?intcmp=239
The Salford riots and the greed of the disenfranchised | Hayley Matthews | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
My dog collar may have protected me, but I was left shocked by those who have been taught consumerism is a recreational right
There had been several rumours of riots when I drove home on Tuesday night, but I knew that many of them were false alarms. When I pulled up my car, I saw lots of riot police, lots of vans, thousands of spectators, and a handful of teenage hoodies with bricks and stones, more mouth than action. The police did a really good job of dispersing them over an hour and a half and it seemed that all was quiet.
But then a couple of lads and one drunk elderly man began pulling at Bargain Booze’s shutters, as another kicked cracks into the bank’s door. He was drunk and angry and clearly hated the police, and judging by their first-name terms he was no stranger to them either.
Some of us ended up “kettled” while the police at either end of the precincts kept control of the lads with the stones. I was wearing my dog collar, which made this experience all the more surreal.
As some men picked up bricks and got in line to lob them at police vans, the action shifted from one place to another so no matter where you stood, you ended up in the thick of it at some point. Bizarrely, whenever it came near me, one or other of the brick throwers would halt fire and ensure I was somewhere safe – on occasion even escorting me and physically shielding me from rocks – before giving the OK for more missile throwing…..