London 2011
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Two nights of rioting in London's Tottenham neighborhood erupted following protests over the shooting death by police of a local man, Mark Duggan. Police were arresting him when the shooting occurred. Over 170 people were arrested over the two nights of rioting, and fires gutted several stores, buildings, and cars. The disorder spread to other neighborhoods as well, with shops being looted in the chaos.
London riots - The Big Picture - Boston.com
3:55 p.m. | Updated More violence rocked parts of of London Sunday night, a day after demonstrators looted shops and set fire to cars and buildings. This time, the crowds in the Enfield area were met with a strong police reaction, according to initial reports on social media. Paul Lewis , a journalist for The Guardian, posted observations of erupting violence in the London borough of Enfield Twitter at around 8:45 p.m local time. The events started Saturday night as hundreds of rioters and looters set buildings on fire, launched fireworks at police and ran unchallenged through the streets with armfuls of stolen goods. The riots began as a peaceful protest against the death of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old man and father of four, who was killed Thursday in Tottenham by officers from the Trident unit of the Metropolitan Police, which investigates gun crime, according to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, an external government body which regulates the police.
Shops and Cars Burn in Antipolice Riot in London - NYTimes.com
London and UK riots: live - Telegraph
21.10 Duncan Gardham, the Telegraph's security correspondent who was caught between police lines and rioters in Hackney, writes in tomorrow's paper that there were two groups on the streets: "hardened drug gangs wanting to get their own back on police and the young looters out to get what they could." As I stood a couple of yards from a group of youths setting fire to a Transit van it became clear that the police had lost control of the streets of Britain. Standing between the police and the rioters, I saw masked youths, black and white, tear the scarves from their faces as they marched up to the police lines and challenged them to a fight. Behind the riot shields of the line of helmeted officers in front of him, a sergeant with red epaulettes held his arms wide and screamed: “Come on then!”
There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored | Nina Power | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Police in riot gear in Enfield, north London, on Sunday night. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters Since the coalition came to power just over a year ago, the country has seen multiple student protests, occupations of dozens of universities, several strikes, a half-a-million-strong trade union march and now unrest on the streets of the capital (preceded by clashes with Bristol police in Stokes Croft earlier in the year).Revolutions and riots pre-date social media. Deep unrest, a history of oppositional organizing, economic downturns, corruption, and the relatively neutral position of the military are all factors that have impacted Egypt. These far more dramatically shape the realities experienced in a country with 85 million people, under 5 percent of whom use Facebook and 1 percent use Twitter. While activists and younger, wealthier, and educated citizens may connect with one another and build strong ties via these technologies, legitimate grievances and community organizing more directly played a role in mobilizing the masses.
London, Egypt and the complex role of social media - The Washington Post