"Riot breaks out over police shooting" Associated Press / August 7, 2011
LONDON - The north London neighborhood of Tottenham exploded in anger last night after a young man was shot to death by police. Two patrol cars, a building, and a double-decker bus were torched as rioters clashed with officers in front of the Tottenham Police Station, where people had gathered to demand justice for the death of a 29-year-old killed in an apparent gunfight. In Tottenham, shop windows were smashed as residents looted the stores, pushing shopping carts full of stolen goods down the street."
"London police at the ready for more unrest" August 08, 2011|Associated Press
LONDON - Police deployed extra officers on London’s streets to prevent a repeat of the rioting and looting in a deprived area amid community anger over a fatal police shooting, and new disturbances broke out in another district of the city late yesterday.
A peaceful protest against the killing of the 29-year-old man in north London’s Tottenham area degenerated into a Saturday night rampage, with rioters torching a double-decker bus, destroying patrol cars, and trashing a shopping mall in the nearby Wood Green district.
Disturbances broke out late yesterday in Enfield, about 5 miles north of Tottenham. Television footage showed riot and mounted police patrolling the streets; there were also images of smashed shop windows and police with dogs detaining at least one man.
There were also reports that a police car was vandalized in Enfield. Sky News television reported that several hundred young people were on the streets causing trouble.
In Saturday’s violence, several buildings were set ablaze. TV footage showed the double-decker bus in a fireball and mounted police charging through the streets trying to restore order....
Social networking websites swirled with rumors of other riots beginning or being planned in other areas of the city, but police warned the public not to trust everything they saw on the Internet - adding that officers were keeping a close eye on what was being said online as well.
Unreal!
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Related:
Globe Editorial Trouble spreads on Facebook
Oh, now it's bad. Gimme a break.
"Rioting, looting spread in London; 225 arrested; Turmoil ignites in 3 other cities" August 09, 2011|By Ravi Somaiya and John F. Burns, New York Times
LONDON - The rioting and looting that convulsed poorer parts of London over the weekend spread to the eastern neighborhood of Hackney yesterday evening, as hundreds of hooded youths confronted squads of riot police officers on the main street, smashing store windows, and attacking police cars and double-decker buses.
The new outbreak came as the police vastly increased the number of riot-control officers deployed in London to deal with the worst unrest the city has seen in decades.
The disturbances also reached outside London for the first time, spreading to the central city of Birmingham, where dozens of people attacked shops in a retail district; the western city of Bristol, where the Associated Press said 150 rioters went on a rampage in the city center; and to Liverpool, where police said vehicles were set ablaze and buildings vandalized in the city’s southern neighborhoods.
Buildings, vehicles, and trash dumps were set on fire, stores burglarized, and police officers pelted with bottles and fireworks in London yesterday, as groups of young people rampaged through neighborhoods across the capital....
The violence caught many British leaders abroad on vacation, including Prime Minister David Cameron, who cut short a vacation to Italy and was returning to London to hold an emergency Cabinet meeting. Home Secretary Theresa May also flew home from a holiday to help manage the mayhem, which recalled earlier spasms of violence rooted in deep social problems.
Related: As euro teeters, national leaders take vacations
The latest rioting may have been amplified by the use of social media, and many looked for causes in the painful austerity cuts in Britain’s national budget that have shriveled programs for unemployed urban youth.
But police and some neighborhood activists said many of the rioters and looters appeared to be thrill seekers and thugs....
And that is when I stopped reading.
Yup, if they are Iranian, Syrian, or Libyan protesters they are great!
What this tells you is the the agenda-pushing paper does in fact identify which protests are approved and which are not. If they badmouth you, you ain't approved.
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Related:
Britain’s rioters: young, poor and disillusioned (By Meera Selva and Paisley Dodds, Associated Press)
Oh, I don't think they are disillusioned at all; they see a lying, looting, shit government and they are right.
London tries tripling police presence to end riots (By John F. Burns, New York Times)
London gets thousands more police (By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, Associated Press)
Also see:
Iran urges UK to restrain police
'Iran ready to send peacekeepers to UK'
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