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England latest news. London riots spread accross England: Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol and Nottingham!

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Last weekend Northern London riots.

 

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Mark Duggan’ s death – ballistic report.

 

After last weekend two nights of violence and looting following protests at Mark Duggan’s death on Thursday, London Police and residents are again bracing themselves for disruption.

The today riots began in Hackney with a small blaze of a terraced house, but the flames quickly spread and appeared to have engulfed all three floors.

Local police officers said shops in Hackney began closing their shutters after hearing “rumours”of trouble initially emanating from BlackBerry Messenger exchanges. Most of the stores had locked up by early afternoon as support officers began arriving in increasing numbers in the vicinity of Hackney Central railway station and three masked youths riding bicycles appeared on the main shopping thoroughfare of Mare Street.

After last weekend two nights of violence and looting following protests at Mark Duggan’s death on Thursday, London Police and residents are again bracing themselves for disruption

After last weekend two nights of violence and looting following protests at Mark Duggan’s death on Thursday, London Police and residents are again bracing themselves for disruption

 

 

 

The new street violence started shortly after a large group of police detained two men against the wall of Hackney’s Old Town Hall

The new street violence started shortly after a large group of police detained two men against the wall of Hackney’s Old Town Hall building, now a betting shop, and a crowd gathered to watch, many of them photographing the events. After some brief skirmishes and an angry verbal tirade against a police cluster by a young woman in the graveyard to the rear of the betting shop, an officer shouted to a colleague to “get the Natos,” a reference to riot helmets.

Groups of rioters began attacking the officers at about 16:20 p.m. local time, throwing rocks and a bin at officers.

A line of riot police was confronting people, some of them masked, while police helicopters were flying low overhead.

Some of the youths tried to rush the police line, they were throwing rocks. The police pushed back, sending the crowds running down Mare Street.

Some of the youths tried to rush the police line, they were throwing rocks. The police pushed back, sending the crowds running down Mare Street.

Some of the youths tried to rush the police line, they were throwing rocks. The police pushed back, sending the crowds running down Mare Street.

Police vehicles and officers in helmets holding riot shields eventually blocked off access to Mare Street south of its pedestrian Narrow Way section and the railway bridge, as buses backed up along adjoining Amhurst Road.

The rioters were about 100 running battles with police at the Bethnal Green end of Mare Street

The rioters were about 100 running battles with police at the Bethnal Green end of Mare Street

The rioters were about 100 running battles with police at the Bethnal Green end of Mare Street. Youths were looting shops, including the boarded-up Texaco garage. Bottle banks on Mare Street have been upended to provide ammunition for launching at police. Many of them were walking around with spoils of their looting, swigging from bottles of Martell.

Pale, the owner of the looted Texaco garage on Mare Street said:

“They just barged in, took everything … that’s 24 years of my life gone. I’ve never seen anything like that. I didn’t try to stop them, my life is worth more than that.”

Even the Co-operative Funeral Care Home on Mare Street was boarded up – next door they are looting the Cash X-Change.

Reactions of the viewers varied from a man telling an officer moving a youth on to:

“Get your hands off him, pig!”

to an afterschool club worker declaring to police that

“These kids shouldn’t be out here, they should be back in their yard,”

and saying that if she was in charge of dealing with rioters she’d “tear gas their asses”.

Traffic was backed up, buses were stopped, most of them being empty and hit by stones. Police cars were also being smashed by youths, who were armed with wooden poles and metal bars. Looters also smashed their way into shops, including a JD Sports store, before police lines dispersed the group. Planks of wood taken from a lorry were then hurled towards riot officers.

Trains were not stopping at Hackney Central and buses are being diverted from the area.

Looters smashed their way into shops

Looters smashed their way into shops

 

Violence has also broken out in Peckham, South London, where a bus has been torched on Peckham High Street.

In nearby Lewisham, a trail of bins and a number of vehicles were on fire.

At 7 p.m., local time, police have regained control of Mare Street.

A large numbers of masked youths were still in the area at that moment. Car burned out on Ellingfort road off Mare Street.

A policeman says they were busy “sterilizing the area”.

Boris Johnson, London’s mayor cut short his holiday to return to the city, where more than 200 people have been arrested and 35 officers injured.

Home Secretary, Theresa May also returned early from holiday, to meet Acting Metropolitan Police (Met) Commissioner Tim Godwin and other senior officers.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Stephen Kavanagh said they discussed the police response to the violence.

“They were looking at preparations for tonight (Monday) to make sure any violence is dealt with quickly.”

Theresa May condemned the riots as “sheer criminality” and said those responsible would “face the consequences of their actions”.

“The riots in Tottenham on Saturday night and the subsequent disturbances in other parts of London are totally unacceptable.”

She also paid tribute to the bravery of police officers and urged local communities “to work constructively with the police to help them bring these criminals to justice”.

Theresa May said at least 215 people had been arrested and 25 people charged.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Stephen Kavanagh said there were “significant resources” on the streets, with a third more officers on duty than on Sunday.

He added:

“What we can see is that the Metropolitan Police are getting police officers there in numbers”.

 

“When we have large numbers of criminals intent on that type of violence, we can only do that, get lots of officers there quickly and try to protect local businesses and local people.”

He also admitted relations with the family of the man shot dead by police could have been handled better.

In addition, Stephen Kavanagh said:

“I want to apologise to the Duggan family because I think both the IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) and the Metropolitan Police could have managed that family’s needs more effectively.”

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New London riots. The third night of street violence!

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Northern London riots for Mark Duggan’s death.

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Riots on London streets – police tried to restore order in northern London – Tottenham after rioters torching police cars and looted stores following a protest over the deadly shooting of a man by officers.  

 

Riots began at about 5PM local time Saturday after more than 120 people marched from Broadwater Farm to Tottenham police station to demand “justice” over the deadly shooting of a young black man by police.

Riots on a main road in Tottenham, London

Mark Duggan – the shot man- was a 29-year-old father of four. Mark Duggan died on Thursday in a shootout with Tottenham police officers.

The march, which seemed to begin peacefully, turned violent immediately after dark when two empty police cars parked about 200 meters from the police station were set upon.

Vanessa Robinson, who had taken part in the original march, told the BBC that:

“The rally had started peacefully and descended into absolute chaos”.

The police cars were torched and hundreds of people ran amok outside the police station and also set fire to a double-decker bus and several buildings and shops, including a supermarket. Rioters kicked in windows on the area’s main street as shops were looted, with people seen carting away shopping trolleys full of stolen goods including television sets and clothes.

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The violence spread to surrounding residential streets, where vans were also torched.

Some of residents fled their homes, according to the Sky News.

Rioters were armed with metal bars, petrol bombs and baseball bats and numbering at least 300.

8 police officers have been taken to hospital and one of them suffered a head injury.

Media crews had been forced to withdraw from the area after being targeted by rioters.

A London’s Metropolitan Police spokesman said:

“A number of bottles were thrown at these two cars — one was set alight and the second was pushed into the middle of the High Road. It was subsequently set alight”.

“The officers were not in the vehicles and were unhurt.”

Nikki, 53, a Mark Duggan family friend, said Duggan’s friends and relatives had organised the protest because “something (had) to be done” and the marchers wanted “justice for the family”.

Many of those rioters lay down on the road to make their point, she said, adding that while Mark Duggan was “involved in things“, he was not a violent man.

There were some reports telling the unrest was further stoked by posts on social and media networks such as Twitter urging other people to join in.

“It’s an absolute war zone. I walked up there,” said an eyewitness, who only named him as Tim.

“I saw about five youths, all faces covered up. They set a wheelie (trash) bin on fire and threw it into the riot police.”

An unnamed rioter reportedly told Channel Four News:

 “This is just the beginning, this is war, and this is what you get — fire.”

David Akinsanya, local resident, 46 year-old, said:

“It’s really bad,”

“I’m feeling unsafe. I saw a guy getting attacked.”

The scene that greeted locals on Sunday morning was like something from a war zone.

One person, who managed to escape before his apartment was burned down, told Sky News that some of his neighbours had managed to get out with only the clothes on their back.

Man said the scene that greeted locals on Sunday morning was like something from a war zone.

“It’s like looking at a scene from somewhere like Syria,” he said.

“It’s surreal. I mean, this is London. This is Tottenham. This is where we live. It’s like something from the Second World War.”

“I don’t know how this happened. I don’t know how this was allowed to happen.”

“This has just ruined so many people’s lives. People have lost everything,” he said.

Sunday morning, police said the situation had calmed on the High Road but officers were still responding to the troubles flaring up elsewhere in the area.

There were also unconfirmed reports that the unrest had spread to nearby Wood Green.

Firefighters were still putting out several small blazes on Sunday morning.

London Police were unable yet to give a count of the buildings and vehicles torched, and the number of arrests was still unknown.

19 people, besides the number of police officers affectted, were believed to have been hurt in the riots.

Stephen Watson, Metropolitan Police Commander said:

“These are very distressing scenes for Londoners,”

“It’s important we emphasize that the safety of the public is of paramount importance to us … Our absolute aim is to restore normality.”

As a reaction to the violent acts, the Metropolitan Police opened the Gold Command Control centre, which is normally used only for major events and incidents, like the royal wedding in April and last December’s student protests.

London Mayor Boris Johnson’s spokeman said Duggan’s shooting was the subject of an inquiry by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).

The IPCC has appealed for any witnesses to Duggan’s death to come. The IPCC, which investigates all police shootings, said that specialist firearms officers (on a regular basis, the British police officers do not carry guns) stopped a minicab Thursday to carry out a pre-planned arrest.

They IPCC officers were accompanied by other officers from Trident, which is the unit focused on tackling gun crime in the black community.

The IPCC said:

“Shots were fired and a 29-year-old man, who was a passenger in the cab, died at the scene,”.

“It is believed that two shots were fired by a firearms officer, equipped with a Heckler and Koch MP5 carbine. A non-police issue handgun was recovered at the scene.”

“An officer’s radio which appears to have a bullet lodged in it has also been recovered. Both the radio and the handgun are being sent for expedited forensic tests.”

The Broadwater Farm area is widely known as being the site of a notorious riot in 1985 that followed the death of an African-Caribbean woman who suffered heart failure during a police search of her home. Police Constable Keith Blakelock was brutally stabbed and beaten to death in the ensuing unrest.

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