Fire fighters and riot police survey the area as fire rages through a building in Tottenham, north London on Aug. 7, 2011. A demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent and cars and shops were set ablaze.
A rioter throws a burning wooden plank at police in Tottenham Aug. 7, 2011
Mounted police officers chase rioters on the streets in Tottenham Aug. 7, 2011.
Riot police officers face off with protesters in Tottenham Aug. 7, 2011.
A double decker bus burns as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main road in Tottenham
Aaron Biber, 89, assesses the damage to his hairdressing salon after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011.
this is acutally what happened: on thursday police shot a man called Mark, some people claim he was innocent and was targeted coz he was of a different race, so we had riots yesterday and saturday for that reason, and TODAY the riots started when a black boy refused to be searched outside hackney mcdonalds, and since then hundreds of yobs have been robbing, louting, stealing and attacking police, the yobs are destroying London
Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol also saw violence yesterday!!! my city is proberly next!
"All police cells in the capital are now full!" according to the BBC news
worst part is that they have cancelled football (england vs holland) lol - shame really, guess England is gonna have to wait to lose the game another day
Get the army in , shoot all the rioters, more dead guys for us to enjoy. If the police need help they can give me a call i'll be down there in a couple of hours with my shot gun.
mark duggan was no innocent lad... he had a gun! it was a bb gun which had been converted to fire real bullets and was loaded. it not an unlawful killing because he posed a threat to the taxi driver and the police. the copper in question shot him in the chest and again in the bicep. the shot to the bicep went straight through and dislodged into another officers radio. it was wrongly precieved that mark duggan had opened fire which he never. its still a legal killing as he had a gun (no question about that) and posed a threat to others.
his family and friends made a peaceful protest outside the local police station asking for answers. an officer never came out to address them which angered the public furthur and this brought the original riot in tottenham... the police did nothing but stand there for the majority of the riot and the same happened on the 7th of august when it had spread across london..
by the 8th of august yobs saw an oppertunity to loot and riot elsewhere in the country because london rioters outmanned the london police. the london police could not use water cannons and rubber bullets without the say so of the prime minister who was on holiday so thats what started the riots in birmingham. by the 9th august it had spread to manchester... it had stopped in birmingham and london after they found out all police were refused leave to take to the streets we had 16k in london 10k in birmingham
all in all theres been about 1600 charged and 800 sentenced.... slap on the wrist really. the governemnt talking about taking benefits but if they do that they will reapeat it and steal to make money they aint thought that option through at all. half these people are under 18. they cant say they need jobs because about 1000 of them are too young to work in the first place!!!
now its quiet. it looks like the aftermath of resident evil
