Rioting Widens in London on 3rd Night of Unrest

The rioting and looting that convulsed poorer sections of London over the weekend spread Monday to at least six new parts of the metropolitan area and broke out for the first time in another big city, in what appeared to be the worst outbreak of social unrest in Britain in 25 years.
Prime Minister David Cameron, apparently caught off guard while on vacation at a $10,000-a-week Tuscany villa, made plans to quickly return home and was planning to convene a Cabinet-level meeting on Tuesday to deal with the latest crisis confronting his coalition government. The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, also scrapped his vacation abroad, as did the top official in charge of domestic security, Home Secretary Theresa May, who flew back to Britain on Monday and said all rioters would be prosecuted.

“There is no excuse for violence, there is no excuse for looting, there is no excuse for thuggery,” Ms. May said.

Despite a huge increase in the number of riot officers, gangs of hooded youths, many of them communicating via Blackberry instant-message technology that the police cannot monitor as well as social networking sites and bicycles and mopeds to spread the word about where to strike, outmaneuvered the police from one riot scene to another in the London districts of Hackney, Lewisham, Clapham, Peckham, Croydon and Woolwich.

They smashed store windows and set several shops and vehicles afire, some of them burning uncontrolled deep into the night, including a large furniture store in Croydon that forced the evacuation of nearby homes. They threw firecrackers, bottles, rocks, chairs and shopping carts at the police and scattered easily to regroup when riot squads charged. Some police officers allowed the looting to go unchecked, concentrating instead on stopping new outbreaks of violence.

It was the third successive night of rioting in London, set off by a confrontation between youths and the police in the Tottenham neighborhood on Saturday that spiraled out of control after a 29-year-old gang member was shot and killed by the police. The rioting recalled earlier spasms of violence rooted in deep social problems, including racial tensions between the police and London’s Afro-Caribbean population.

The mayhem also spread for the first time to the city of Birmingham, where the BBC and other British news organizations said at least 200 hooded youths massed near a shopping center in the middle of the city, smashed windows and looted stores. The police in Birmingham cordoned off the area and made at least nine arrests, including some people younger than 18.

The new outbreaks came as the police vastly increased the number of riot-control officers deployed in London and announced they had made more than 200 arrests since Saturday.

Tim Godwin, the acting commissioner of Scotland Yard, who held an emergency meeting with Ms. May, the home secretary, said the most important priority was to stop the rioting, and he appealed to neighborhoods beset by the mayhem to help identify the rioters. He said there was “a conversation to be had” about grievances among the rioters, “but the immediate need is for an end to the violence.”

Ms. May, striking the forceful tone that has characterized almost all official pronouncements on the turmoil, said “those who are responsible will be held to account, and there will be consequences.”

The rioting appeared to be the most serious since the Broadwater Farms riot in October 1985, so named because it happened the Broadwater Farms public housing project in Tottenham, home to a large Afro-Caribbean population. Hundreds of rioters armed with shotguns, gasoline bombs and bricks battled 500 police officers after a black woman collapsed and died as her house was being searched. A policeman was killed in the violence, and dozens injured, two-thirds of them police officers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/world/europe/09britain.html?_r=1&ref=world

 

yup i live in croydon, not far from the town, its a massacre down there, so many historic places burnt to the ground, shops smashed and burnt, watching it on sky news now, its spreding all over the country, lets see what the PM says tomorrow

my bfs dumb ass brother is in croydon town aswell, my bf said his mother will beat his brother when he gets home

 

I notice you have to dig deep to find out if this was racial. The media over the last two days will not mention that this was a racial incident. Just like the flash mob incidents that happened in several parts of this country there was no mention of race. What the hell is the media afraid of?

 

The riots are the offshoot of multicultural policies that institutionalize racism. The countries running some of these policies see a pattern of settlement that leads to ethnic enclaves where in those societies there are artificial borders.

Borders that mean your zip code and race determine your station in life.Many of London's terrorist plots were hatched in some of these neigbhourhoods. Many are have the culture and diversities of third world countries in a country. Until there are inclusive policies that forge one national identity against the multiple identities these policies create, there would be problems.

 

Good, concise point, Naija. I knew something was going on in London, I just feared it had something to do with race so I didn't wanna jump too far in.

 

Yup. White racist teabaggers are attacking innocent Blacks.

The whites who are rioting in London need to be incarcerated for hate crimes FOR LIFE.

But the WHITE-OWNED anti-semitic media dares not report the TRUTH about these incidents.

 

Live coverage of the riots here by the BBC online

BBC London Riot coverage

 

Lots of white kids running around looting just as much as the black kids are, so certainly not racial.
This is a result of an underclass set of mind, disgusting scum who disregard all morals and human life. They're not protesting. They aren't trying to achieve anything. They are looting for that new pair of trainers and using any excuse to throw fireworks at the police. It's disgusting. I've never seen this country in such a state.

I've never felt so embarrassed to be English, quite frankly. This is the worst behaviour I've seen from people of my country. What an absolute disgrace.

 

That is what my suspicion is as well. Same thing that happened in France. Fuck ‘em, Roi de sollie & the Queens land my ass. The Brits and French went all over Africa and the rest of the third world to loot. Now the descendents are right there in your face. Fuck historic places, burn that shit to the fucken ground. The chicken is coming home to roost.



BTW, I'm glad Ruskie and the rest of you Brit posters are doing ok.

 

Thanks! I'm up North so it's just started to spread here, I figure it'll be at it's worst tomorrow.
And it's really not that simple. England doesn't have the racial issues you guys have in the states. This is down to class. This is why if you turn on BBC World News, you won't see one race burning down the properties of innocent people. You'll only see one class, though.
In my opinion, ruining the homes and the property of innocent people is sick regardless of race, especially considering that they're messing up their own communities.

 

You aren't supposed to shit where you eat, yanno? You don't mess up your own back yard.

 

Who knows this just might be a Preview Coming to America……

They say armed society is a polite society, unarmed society oh well…..
We will see how polite we are if this shit hits the shore of Yankees land, I am sure as heck lots of ppl would be happy to greet this kind of circumstance with BIG AK strap on their back.

Lock & load bitches.

 

So, let me get this straight.. You are a person prone to committing senseless acts of violence and pillaging, and but for the fact of your birth date you would have participated in such activity, and at the least it's one of the items on your bucket list, if another occasion closer than France presents itself. You believe that harmless individuals should be held responsible for the sins of a Government. You are an anarchist who has no problem taking up arms during times of riots and settling the score in your own way...Does that sum it up?

Are there any other psychotic revelations that you would like to share with us tonight?

 

LMAO. Close but not quite close. Psychotic you say, I live for those moments, holla!!!
No disrespect bruh, you seem to be very intelligent but don’t think you got what it takes to analyze me. Brilliant minds in high caliber institution have failed many times, so I don’t think you would know how to sum me up.
Peace.

 

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pffffttttt...you ain't that deep. give you a bucket of kfc & some sprite along with a buck fifty & you're set

 

me, you, and the sprite bottle

 

we have a member who measures his member by a bottle...you going to do the same thing...???

 

you caught me, id also like that chicken you offered earlier

 

you're leaving me with the buck fifty...????