UK - London's Burning - Tottenham Riots, August 2011

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Public urged to clear the streets, parents asked to contact their children (!)
This is what I am hearing on live news
 
badhorsie said:
Public urged to clear the streets, parents asked to contact their children (!)
This is what I am hearing on live news
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8.20pm: Met police acting commissioner Tim Godwin is speaking outside Scotland Yard.

Godwin urges parents to begin contacting their children. He police to be able to do their job on the streets. He says we are seeing "communities blighted by the actions of a few".

Godwin says police are publishing CCTV footage and other images of those who may be involved in the violence. He urges Londoners to get in touch with police in a bid to identify those involved.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/08/london-riots-third-night-live
 
I hate to say this but if this was a protest, I could understand it more but it seems to be feral youths running amok :(
 
Good view of notorious found leaflet. Sedition? Disinformation?

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Sample tweet:

#londondriots #Birmingham and now hearing Leeds....gonna be a long night!

(no MSM on this as yet)

Guardian reporting Croydon "under complete lockdown."

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#Birmingham will soon be called Burningham #londonriots
 
8.39pm: As the violence worsened Downing Street said that David Cameron had no plans to cut short his holiday in Tuscany, reports the Guardian's Nick Watt.

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Mock Cameron poster campaign.
 
Just a quick note to again let you know I totally, completely understand what you all are feeling, over there across the pond. Los Angeles burned, too...and it was a very scary, upsetting, disjointed time for me.

Prayers for the safety of all...and thanks for keeping this thread updated...I haven't been watching much else but the financial markets today, so this is a good way to keep up with you all.

Best-
Herding Cats
 
Guardian, with news from Leeds:
9.11pm: Leeds update from Martin Wainwright:

There was a tense situation in the Chapeltown area of Leeds where police were called after a man was shot and suffered facial injuries.

Up to 100 youths, some wearing masks, gathered in the area which has seen street violence in the past but has enjoyed a better reputation in the past decade.

The UK's second biggest Caribbean carnival is held in the local Potternewton Park on August bank holiday with a parade through the city centre.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/08/london-riots-third-night-live
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Summer bank holiday this year begins 29 August.
 
Two sample tweets from #croydon

Much respect to all the police and firefighters on the streets of London , I couldn't do you job. #londonriots #croydon #Hackney

@ @EmmaK67 The furniture store and a row of houses behind it. It's a street away from where I am and we're trying to get out of here. #Croydon
 
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Dogs in action; beautiful horses; terror.
 
9.44pm: Lizzy Davies is filing from Hackney:

Full scale looting going on at Clarence convenience store right by the burning car on clarence road. "One by one" shouts one man as people crowd round to get into the shop, whose entrance has been smashed in. Women calling: can you get me a magazine? Other people asking for alcohol. A photographer is being threatened by a guy and press moving away. But others still smashing in rest of shop front.

The situation is highly volatile. A man was just hit over the head with a bottle and punched in the face. A witness said his assailant was a woman. He was left bleeding down the back of his neck. The apparent motive for the assault was that the man was taking photos. But he told police afterwards that he hadn't been doing that when he was targeted, so the circumstances remain unclear.
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More, with Brum looting video, at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/08/london-riots-third-night-live
 
COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room A) tomorrow apparently. These meetings are called in times of national or regional crisis
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9.49pm: Ben Quinn is in Clapham Junction, south London:

Dozens of youths started the night's violence on Northcote Road at just after nine o'clock when they ransacked a Curry's electronic store in Northcote Road. They were joined by dozens of others, many with black hoods and scarves after a small number of riot police left the scene half an hour earlier when they came under light bombardment from projectiles.

Onlookers and locals identified many of those present as "blues, yellows and reds", members of local gangs who they said had called a truce for the evening. Along Northcote Road the windows of other stores in including Starbucks were smashed.

The gangs ran along the road and at one point a middle-aged man and his wife pointed in the direction of a jewellers further up the road and other potential targets.

Less than 30 metres away dozens of revellers stood outside a local pub drinking beer and looking on.

As it became apparent after 20 minutes of looting that the police were not coming back the looters were joined by many more.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/08/london-riots-third-night-live
 
I'm keeping a close eye on this. My 22 year old niece lives in London (near Hackney), and her last report to me is that it's quiet where she is. I've advised her to stay off the streets.
 
Conflicting reports on social media as to whether Birmingham Children's Hospital has been attacked.
 
Clapham being looted now, listening to live TV. Kids smashing shop windows with newspaper stands and running along with armfuls of goods, police not in control at all, coming under attack and retreating, methodical looting.
Stores cleaned out "a lawless mob"
 
Tweet from CharlotteITV: "Lots asking about Birmingham Children's Hospital rumours - just spoken to them they've had "no trouble - all is safe & quiet"
 
10.47pm: Barry Neild is now in Dalston:

We've detoured to Dalston where a bus was set on fire in shacklewell lane earlier. The single deck bus is now cordoned off and there doesn't seem to be much damage, but the incident has clearly shaken the large Turkish community here. Many shopkeepers are on the street talking about how they chased away the gang of youths behind the bus fire.

"We beat up four of them quite badly and they ran off," one man, who wouldn't give his name, said. Another said: "this is not justice, coming here and trying to attack us." Notably several businesses are still open as usual here, unlike other violence hit areas.

We've just watched a mob of locals chase a gang of hoodies down the main road, with police vans on full siren in pursuit.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/08/london-riots-third-night-live
 
Social media rumors of rioting in Toxteth, Liverpool, as yet unconfirmed by MSM.

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More humor at Cameron's expense.
 
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