London riots: Violence erupts for third day
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Britain burning: First fatality registered as mayhem escalates
LONDON:
Ten thousand more policemen fanned out across London’s streets on Tuesday amid fears that widespread rioting would continue for the fourth night in succession.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who cut short a family holiday in Tuscany to deal with the crisis, said 16,000 police officers would be on the streets on Tuesday night, compared to the 6,000 out the previous night.
Hours before, a gang of about 200 hurled missiles at police in riot gear, set vehicles alight and smashed shops in the town of West Bromwich, near Birmingham, according to police and a BBC report.
Television pictures showed a gang lined up behind a barricade in a stand-off with scores of police in front of vans. Violence also erupted in nearby Wolverhampton, where youths broke into shops.
The first fatality of the riots came on Tuesday when a 26-year-old man who was shot a day earlier in a car in Croydon during the disturbances died. Police from Operation Trident, which specialises in gun crime within the black community, launched a murder investigation.
As violence spread from London to elsewhere in the country, British police made 138 arrests in Birmingham, taking the total number of detainees over 500.
With London smouldering after the third night of mayhem, Britain’s police watchdog said it had found no evidence that Mark Duggan, whose death at the hands of the police last week was the catalyst for unprecedented riots in London, had fired a gun at officers.
“At this stage there is no evidence that the handgun found at the scene was fired during the incident,” said the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in an update on last Thursday’s fatal shooting in Tottenham, north London.
Duggan, 29, was travelling in a taxi when the vehicle was stopped by police carrying out an arrest as part of a Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) operation against gun crime within the black community.
British Prime Minister David Cameron recalled parliament and ordered thousands of extra police onto the streets after rioting left parts of London and other cities in flames.
London police said they would consider using baton rounds amidst calls for a stronger response to the ongoing riots. “That’s a tactic that will be used by the Metropolitan police if deemed necessary,” British Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh told reporters.
Meanwhile, the UK government is also considering suspending BlackBerry services.
(Read: Protests in London)
Iran asks Britain not to use ‘violence’ against riots
Iran urged Britain on Tuesday to show “restraint” in dealing with rioters.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast asked “the British government to prevent the use of violence by the police, and to engage in dialogue with the protesters and examine their demands in order to restore calm,” the state television website said.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 10th, 2011.
Britain burning: First fatality registered as mayhem escalates – The Express Tribune
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Violence erupts outside London but capital quiet
(Reuters) - Violence flared in English cities and towns on Tuesday night but London, where thousands of extra police had been deployed, was largely peaceful after three turbulent nights in which youths rampaged across the capital virtually unchecked.
Groups of youths in hooded tops fought running battles with police in Manchester in northwest England, smashing windows and looting shops. A clothes shop was set alight.
In Salford, greater Manchester, rioters threw bricks at police and set fire to buildings. A BBC cameraman was attacked. Television pictures showed flames leaping from shops and cars, and plumes of thick black smoke billowing across roads.
"Over the past few hours, Greater Manchester Police has been faced with extraordinary levels of violence from groups of criminals intent on committing widespread disorder," Assistant Chief Constable Gary Shewan said.
"These people have nothing to protest against - there is no sense of injustice or any spark that has led to this. It is, pure and simple, acts of criminal behavior which are the worst I have seen on this scale."
Further south in West Bromwich and Wolverhampton, cars were burned and stores raided. A police station was firebombed by 30 to 40 males in Nottingham. No one was injured, police said.
In Liverpool's Toxteth district, rioters set fire to two fire engines and a fire officer's car, police said. Earlier, some 200 youths throwing missiles wrecked and looted shops, causing 'disorder and damage', police said.
Police said they had arrested 47 people in Manchester and Salford, and 37 in Toxteth. There were reports of minor disturbances in Birmingham and Leicester, in the Midlands, Milton Keynes north of London, and Gloucester in the southwest.
In London, commuters hurried home early, shops shut and many shopkeepers boarded their windows, preparing nervously for more of the violence that had erupted in neighborhoods across London and spread to other cities.
Gangs have ransacked stores, carting off clothes, shoes and electronic goods, torched cars, shops and homes -- causing tens of millions of pounds of damage -- and taunted the police.
But the streets of London were quiet on Tuesday.
Community leaders said the violence in London, the worst for decades in the huge, multi-ethnic capital, was rooted in growing disparities in wealth and opportunity, but many rejected the idea that anything but greed motivated rioters.
Prime Minister David Cameron, who cut short a family holiday in Tuscany to deal with the crisis, told reporters: "This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted and defeated."
"People should be in no doubt that we will do everything necessary to restore order to Britain's streets," he said after a meeting of the government's crisis committee, COBRA.
Another such meeting was set for Wednesday. Cameron also recalled parliament from its summer recess, a rare move.
London police said 16,000 police officers were on the streets on Tuesday night, compared with 6,000 on Monday night. London has a population of 7.8 million.
STRUGGLING ECONOMY
The unrest poses a new challenge to Cameron as Britain's economy struggles to grow while his government slashes public spending and raises taxes to cut a yawning budget deficit -- moves that some commentators say have aggravated the plight of young people in inner cities.
It also shows the world an ugly side of London less than a year before it hosts the 2012 Olympic Games, an event that officials hope will serve as a showcase for the city in the way that April's royal wedding did.
"No one should wake in this wonderful city of ours to see such scenes of devastation and violence," said Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Steve Kavanagh.
Police said they had arrested a total of 685 people in London since the looting began on Saturday. More than 100 police officers were injured.
A 26-year-old man died after being shot in Croydon, south of London, the first fatality of the riots.
Some Londoners, fearing more trouble, took steps to defend their communities. In Southall, west London, around 100 people gathered outside the Sikh temple in case of new rioting.
The London 2012 Organizing Committee hosted an International Olympic Committee visit "as planned" and said the violence would not hurt preparations for the Olympics.
But other sporting events suffered. England canceled Wednesday's international soccer friendly with the Netherlands and three club games were called off.
On Westminster Bridge tourists took pictures of each other in front of the Houses of Parliament as normal, though the crowds were thinner than usual for an August evening.
"There are more police officers on the streets, we noticed that but we didn't see anything else and we are kind of used to violence on the streets anyway," said Pedro, a 23-year-old Brazilian tourist. "We had a good day, went shopping... drinking in a pub, tourist things."
PRESSURE ON POLICE
The first riots broke out on Saturday in north London's Tottenham district, when a protest over the police shooting of a suspect two days earlier led to violence.
Police are likely to come under fresh pressure over that incident after a watchdog said on Tuesday there was no evidence that a handgun retrieved by police at the scene had been fired. Reports initially suggested Mark Duggan had shot at police before they shot and killed him.
Tottenham includes areas with the highest unemployment rates in London. It also has a history of racial tension with local young people, especially blacks, resenting police behavior.
"It's us versus them, the police, the system," said one youth at a grim housing estate in the London district of Hackney, the epicenter of Monday night's rioting.
"They call it looting and criminality. It's not that. There's a real hatred against the system." His friends, some covering their faces with hoods, nodded in agreement.
Earlier Londoners rallied to clear up neighborhoods damaged in the riots. Hundreds of volunteers carrying brooms, dustpans, rubber gloves and black bags gathered on Tuesday in Clapham, south of the River Thames, to help clean up.
Violence erupts outside London but capital quiet | Reuters
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There were many British people celebrating the massive floods in Pakistan and they were jubilant and cheering about many "Pak1s" dying; both in real life and on internet...
and now I see this, London riots, London burning...Burn...
and now I see this, London riots, London burning...Burn...
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CIA, MI-6 and RAW involvement in Karachi violence is very clear now. They turned peaceful city of Karachi into a fighting ground and now facing the wreath of Allah. Zaid Hamid is correct as usual.
You are comparing kids carrying wooden batons & stones with goons carrying AK-47 and RPG.
I'm sure that the London rioting will be over before it reaches the death toll that Karachi endures in a day.
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where is the source?- i hope you are lying-
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Where did I poke fun at the dead?
I was stating the fact London riots & Karachi problem cannot be compared.
Also don't worry about my city. After seeing how inefficient the London police is , I'm proud about my police force. They may be rough around the edges and less courteous but at the end of the day they are there for me.
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same question here..no such news on any news channel....and this time its not particularly a racist riot....its a looting riot.
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one thing i am sure of BBP can defend themselves- so this news is fake-
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