Where to watch. RT Shop. RT Question more. Covid Freedom Index. Home World News. Get short URL. Follow RT on. Buildings on fire, windows smashed and shops looted - scenes of devastation litter the streets of London after three days of violent riots.
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He was discovered in a car suffering from gunshot wounds at about 9. This is up from 6, the night before. The prime minister promised a tough response to any trouble tonight: "I have this very clear message to those people who are responsible for this wrongdoing and criminality: you will feel the full force of the law. If you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. West Midlands police made arrests.
Chief Constable Chris Sims said of the looting in the city centre: "This was not an angry crowd, this was a greedy crowd. A number of websites and Facebook groups have been set up to co-ordinate the volunteer forces. His message to the rioters is: "They will face punishments they will bitterly regret. The mayor of London is facing a lot of heckling.
People are asking where the police were yesterday. She says people's No 1 concern is to feel safe. They do not want to have to close their businesses at three o'clock. It is not a political demonstration, she says. She refuses to be drawn on deeper motives or causes for the rioting right now. The first thing to do is sort out the situation. People don't want to hear "excuses", she says. People are absolutely expecting that whatever measures need to be taken will be taken They don't want to have the fear that things are going to kick off in their neighbourhood.
Matthew Taylor, who's in Croydon , says shops are closing on police advice and a steady stream of people is heading out of the area via the train station. Peter Beaumont, in the centre of Hackney , reports hundreds of police near the Empire and the Town Hall. He says he's never seen so many officers in the area — nor so many wearing the uniforms of so many different forces from around the country.
Fire engines are gathered in Ealing in west London to secure a building burned out by fire last night. Roads in the centre are closed to traffic and police are patrolling the streets as concerns spread of more violence this afternoon. Earlier this afternoon, police ordered the Ealing shopping centre to shut, with hundreds of people being turned back into the streets. The centre is now shuttered until tomorrow morning. Opposite, the Arcadia shopping centre remains closed, its windows smashed and a traffic cone lodged in one panel of glass at the entrance.
Workers in hard hats are sweeping up fallen tiles from the burned out building that was set on fire last night. Meanwhile, one of Liverpool 's biggest shopping centres has decided to close early as a precaution:.
Following recent events across the country, customers can expect stores at Liverpool One to close from 6pm today, rather than the usual closing time of 8pm, to allow staff to safely make their way home. The top priority at Liverpool One is always the safety of its staff and customers, and Liverpool One will be monitoring the situation closely in partnership with Merseyside police. Palpable tension on Walthamstow High Street at the moment.
Sainsbury's and Selbourne Walk shopping centre have closed, anticipating trouble. Groups of nervous security guards and shop assistants keep watch outside Sainsbury's and the mall; Asian and Turkish shops remain open, with their own makeshift security force of young and middle-aged men.
Ealing police have drafted in support from areas, including neighbouring Acton, with some officers being called in on days off. An officer at the station on Uxbridge Road said he could not comment for fear of compromising the operation in progress but said the force was stretched. Another officer at Ealing confirmed that shops had been ordered shut as a precaution following intelligence that suggested the area might be targeted again this afternoon.
There are a lot of officers around Dalston Kingsland station but no sign of riots yet. He is worried about the rest of the UK as officers from around the country are redirected to London, and calls for the army to be called out under police control. In Norbury, two dozen shops were looted or damaged along London: jewellers, a petrol station, cash converter shops, takeaways, tool shops, tile shops, a bike shop and a pizza takeaway shop.
In West Croydon, kids hijacked cars and drove them at police, and shops were attacked. In Purley Way there was repeated and massive looting of big stores in a retail park. Walworth Road was also quite badly hit. Most of the shops have pre-emptively closed but the streets are busy with people going about their normal business. They said: "We want to establish the truth about Mark's death.
The disorder going on has nothing to do with finding out what happened to Mark. The majority of local businesses are open but with groups of burly men standing outside, constantly on the phone, texting or tweeting. But you can see things aren't quite right with all these shutters and people open one minute and closed the next. On the corner of Grove Road, police tapes sealed off the Handsworth branch of Lloyds bank whose staff have rather superfluously pasted the windows with notices saying: "Closed due to circumstances beyond our control.
Two policewomen chatted with passers-by in hot sunshine beside the ripped-out frames of the bank's two cash machines which had otherwise resisted a mob's attempts to break them open. The area's mixture of normality and edginess was shown by the other two banks near the junction.
The Nationwide is open as usual with only low profile security, but the NatWest is closed an shuttered. The high street's Asian greengroceries were all trading busily, with families out shopping in the warm weather and plenty of children on school holidays darting about. Council benches in an area full of optimistic promotions of "Hands-On Handsworth - keep it clean and green" were full of older locals. One of them, Theo Parker, a retired bus driver, said: "We're just like most people, bro.
Just enjoying the lovely weather. This stuff last night, it's all to do with drugs and youth getting bored. Most of us get along here fine and that's the way we want it. What we are seeing is mindless vandalism, spreading first within London, and now in other cities, with no regard at all for the safety of other people. Violence, arson and looting can never be justified.
The actions by rioters are endangering people's lives. It's sheer luck that no one has died so far. The priority of the police has to be to protect the public in their own homes and businesses. The vast majority of young people have nothing to do with this. But we do need to look at why the perpetrators of this violence are so alienated from society.
This is about young people who deeply feel that they do not have a stake in society, some of whom were already engaged in criminal activity. Just as we have projects that engage with extremists to draw them back into mainstream society, we need to re-engage with alienated young people in a variety of ways, such as creating employment and training opportunities, advice, youth centres, and community services.
The Labour leader said:. There must be no no-go areas and public order is the immediate priority. The public safety of our citizens, the ability for them to go about their business in a lawful way, is an absolute priority for any government and for any country.
There can be no excuses for the violence and the intimidation of people that we have seen over the last few days. Everyone has been shocked by the age of some of those involved in violence in recent days. Parents, many of whom will now be incredibly anxious, have a big role to play. I say to mothers and fathers, make sure you know where your kids are, make sure they are at home tonight, away from any violent activity and safe.
She called the level of looting and violence "appalling". Police will be arresting people now because people need to know their actions have consequences, she says. Boris Johnson is there too. The mayor says: "The city has been completely let down by a tiny number of people. We've got to reclaim the streets. She said:. We've just seen seven or eight silver and ordinary police vans tearing down the street. Everybody in Streatham is boarding up and closing down.
People are chucking water over the wood in case people set fire to their premises. It is very tense. Paradoxically the reluctance thus far to deploy the anti-riot control weapon only confirms the view in Northern Ireland especially in working class republican communities that there is one law for one side of the Irish Sea and one law for the other in the United Kingdom.
According to the main indices of Ulster Troubles' deaths 17 people have lost their lives after being struck by rubber and latterly plastic bullets. Worrying still is the fact that eight out of these victims have been children. Even during this summer's Ulster loyalist marching season the Police Service of Northern Ireland continued to deploy plastic baton rounds during riots in Belfast. Dozens of plastic bullets were fired during two night's of rioting at the edge of the republican Ardoyne area of north Belfast.
As the PSNI riot squad heavily protected in ninja-style armour and helmets with visors started letting off baton rounds and deploying water cannon on a small but dedicated gang of young republicans opposed to a loyalist march passing by Ardoyne on 12 July, a local priest contrasted the attitude of police in his city to those handling last autumn's violent student protests in central London. We now await to see if the authorities in England are prepared to follow the PSNI's strategy in coping with rioters or not.
Boris Johnson is still being aggressively heckled in Clapham Junction. A spokesman for Visit Britain said: "We have taken the videos down; they are not appropriate at this time. The spokesman said there had been no reports of tourists leaving Britain early or cancelling trips to visit the capital. Earlier in Peckham, Ed Miliband said issues that needed to be looked into were to do with "parenting, aspiration, and prospects for people The area I grew up in, Camden, the area I used to walk to school, has been one of the areas partially affected We cannot allow parts of London to have no-go areas.
The latest figures released by the Metropolitan police show that 32 cases have already been heard in court, with 18 people remanded in custody.
It comes as a senior officer revealed that police and the CPS are considering using "virtual courts" to deal with high numbers of offenders. In total, arrests have been made across London in the last few days, and of those, 99 individuals have been charged.
In a statement posted on the BlackBerry website, the hackers said:. Think about it…. They are the ones that would be assisting the police.
The hackers said they defaced the website "in response" to this statement made by RIM on Monday: "We feel for those impacted by the riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can. No cars are being allowed into the car park of the Morrisons store on Holloway Road, and there are five police officers at the nearby branch of Waitrose.
According to David Turner QC, who specialises in professional liability, the situation does not need to be officially described as a riot for the Public Order Act to kick in. Section 10 provides that the terms "riot" and "riotously" in the Riot Act is when "12 or more persons who are present together use or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them taken together is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present to fear for his personal safety, each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot.
Under the Act, the Metropolitan Police Authority will be liable to pay compensation to those whose property has been damaged, destroyed or stolen in the rioting within London borders, but claims have to be made within 14 days after the day when the damage, destruction or theft occurred. However, it is unclear whether "consequential losses" will be covered, ie where the loss of profit incurred as a result of property damage. Straining to make his voice heard over the heckling, he thanked everybody who had come to clear up.
But the local people gathered refused to be placated by his words shouting over him: "What happened? Shouting above them, the mayor tried to continue with his set speech, saying: "I also want to say to the people who have been involved in instigating these riots, those who have been robbing and stealing, that they will be caught, they will be apprehended and they will face punishments that they will bitterly regret.
But the heckling continued. I was in my salon when a brick came through the window, and no one was there to defend me". The mayor replied: "I know, I know, I understand; that is why we are putting many more police on the street. He continued: "It's time that people who are engaged in looting and violence stopped hearing economic and social justifications.
Further down the street he received a warmer response from up to residents brandishing brooms and waiting for police to finish forensic examination and open up the road for cleaning. They cheered him as he thanked everybody "for coming out today to help clear up the mess of last night". When asked by one angry resident why he had not come home from his holiday earlier, the mayor replied: "I came as fast as I could.
Pubs, boutiques and cafes are closing. Some, like Pepe Jeans, didn't even open today, she says. They also say lots of their drivers are nervous about taking jobs — particularly to areas such as Lewisham and Enfield. Manager Emre Agca said he was among the more than people who chased down a group of 30 rioters at Dalston Junction at about He also said he was ready to do it again tonight. We saw police just getting attacked for nothing and they weren't able touch the kids so we ran towards them and they just ran away.
I don't think they will come to Stoke Newington and Dalston again but we will be out again tonight. Everton are waiting to discover whether Saturday's Barclays Premier League opener at Tottenham will go ahead after three nights of rioting in London. The borough of Haringey, in which White Hart Lane is situated, witnessed the start of the trouble on Saturday night and this weekend's game could join tomorrow's England friendly in being called off if police resources are needed elsewhere.
The Bullring shopping centre is to close at 5pm. He says he felt "ashamed" that people could feel such disdain for their neighbourhood as to burn down buildings there. It's "just amazing" to see how a "tiny minority" in London can let down and frighten the rest, the mayor says. Until then, the masses will keep on commenting as to the probable causes of what went wrong, and where. Whether Mark Duggan was shot by police because he was an imminent threat to anyone or not, may or may not emerge.
Whether or not the nonviolent protest was carelessly handled by the police will be a subject of debate, rather than a factual finding.
Legal questions will be raised about the closing of youth clubs. Are these violent mobs of youth, who will likely pay a great deal for their destruction if they are caught on CCTV, victims of the bankers?
Probably yes, or probably not. Many will doubtlessly debate on these issues. But no matter what the discourse, the 'scenes will make UK contemplate long and hard about how disconnected they are from the segment of the public that is fully engaged in an immoral violent behavior.
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