August 7, 2011 por steve8080 Comentarios (0)
Chaos in London as protest at police shooting descends into rioting and looting THE fatal shooting of a man by police sparked riots and looting on the streets of London last night. Eight police officers were being treated in hospital after trouble flared up in Tottenham, north London. The violence came two days after a man named locally as Mark Duggan, 29, was gunned down by police in the area. After a peaceful protest by community members demanding "justice", the mood turned nasty and buildings and vehicles were set alight. Starting about 200 yards from Tottenham Police Station, the riots then spread to other parts of the local area and by the early hours of the morning, crowds of looters were smashing shop windows in a retail park near Tottenham Hale tube station and plundering goods from almost every store. Teenagers and adults were said to have turned up in cars and filled their boots with stolen items, unimpeded by police. Others arrived on foot and piled shopping trolleys high with looted televisions and other electronic goods, a woman who has lived locally for 10 years but did not want to be named said. Local residents wandered through the wrecked retail park in disbelief, some taking photos of the devastation. The front window of Currys electrical store was smashed and smithereens of glass covered the ground outside. Next door, Argos's door had been smashed in and broken glass covered the floor inside and out after looters apparently raided the stock room. A futile alarm rang out but was all but drowned out by the whirring of helicopters circling overhead. Rubbish bins had been tipped over and their contents strewn across the car park. Discarded flat screen television boxes and other unwanted packaging covered paved areas outside the electronic goods stores. The looters had evidently removed the products from their boxes to create more space in their shopping trolleys and cars, which were said to number up to 100. Fragments of glass from the smashed in door of PC World littered the ground. The scene outside Comet was similar and outside B&Q - one of the few stores that did not appear to have been looted - staff stood uncertainly, waiting to hear from head office whether they would be working today. With police tape cordoning off most of the neighbouring shops, the prospect seemed unlikely. A member of staff at The Carphone Warehouse next door said every phone in the shop had been stolen. The contents of the stock room were spilled across the pavement outside from the smashed in door. 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The government want to make sure that the police uphold the law of the land fairly and right across the board without preference along with a stop to what appears to be summary justice metted out by the police or they are in danger of losing any respect the population have left for them. godsboy - the discharge of weapons by UK police is very, very rare. Fatalities are even rarer. You seem to want to turn this into a class issue? Why not debate the tactics of the former Soviet states and the presently uprising Arab states: your allies in the war against Capitalist Imperialism. Remember that this man had a weapon and the police officer who shot him is in hospital after being shot by him. Apparently it followed on from a 'peaceful protest'. What happened in Tottenham? Did this shooting disrupt their crack supply? I watched the MP make his speech then the inevitable 'buts' followed. Calculate the cost of the damage and subtract it from their community grants. The immigrant communities have to realise that they can't just riot when the hand-outs dry-up. Anyone in possession of a gun in the streets of should be prepared to run the risk of being shot by the police.. The cost of this riot will be borne by the taxpayer and those who pay for any type of insurance. Water canon should have been used last night and even the army should have been brought in to restore order. Godsboy - When did this become a class issue ? Maybe you think it is a class issue because the poor struggling working class people chose to liberate plasma T.V.'s, electrical goods, trainers, and barowloads of provisions from shops that were miles away from the scene of the riots. This has absolutely nothing to do with 'working class' or any other class. This is simply a case of opportunistic thieves and looters taking advantage of a situation. If an armed gunman shoots a policeman, I would fully expect our police force to mete out 'summary justice' before anyone else gets killed. And rightly so! Seeking justice by looting the local shops, thieving anything that isn't nailed down, and destroying whatever CAN'T be stolen? I am guessing the "youths" involved in "liberating" the flat screen tvs are overwhelmingly of African origin, but we can't expect the media to report that! You can be damn sure mind you that they'd be quick to point out if the looters were all white!! When you have a huge third world population (which London certainly has) then don't be surprised when this type of behaviour occurs. This is standard third world shenanigans. Detroit, Atlanta and Los Angeles have had this stuff happen many times. These cities may be located in a relatively affluent nation, but they now have majority third world populations. This is simply what these people do and they don't need much justification..... I feel enriched, mass immigration has brought nothing but benefits to Britain as the Liberal elite tell us.. that and riots, terrorism, murders, rape, muggings... It's all good 2 totally different issues here. An armed guy has been shot dead by the police. Not because they were trigger happy , but because a gun had been discharded by a member of the public. I don't care who or why the guy was shot by the police , he was a serious risk to the public , and the police , so he got everything he deserved. Do people have short memories . It was only a couple of weeks ago dozens of kids were killed by a madman with a gun. Do the police wait until someone gets killed before they act ? No , take out the threat immediately and ask questions later. As for the looters , absolutely nothing to do with the shooting incident. Mindless morons who should have been covered in dye from the helicopters , rounded up and made to pay for all the damage and looting they done. No place for these idiots , total disrespect for people and property and would probably steal from their own families. Two major riots in less than a year, London must invest in water canons, lots of them to flush the criminal element into the Thames.