The Anatomy of The London Riots

August 9th, 2011 - By TheEditor

The city of London had received a great boost in popularity this year due to the intense media attention and international interest in the royal wedding of Will and Kate, but this week, the world is being reminded that there is another dimension to the pristine and cosmopolitan image of the region. Last Thursday, 29-year-old Mark Duggan was shot and killed by police. Officers assert that he was armed and dangerous, but many are suspicious about what really happened that night. Days later, those suspicions, racial tension and economics have led to one of the worst riots and outbreaks of violence that London has experienced in over 25 years.

What happened?

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  • http://judicialcriminals.com The Crimlin

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  • http://judicialcriminals.com The Crimlin

    Equally there is no excuse for police thuggary – shooting and killing unjustified. Don't kill on a hunch and these damn judges need to be held accountable as well. They seemingly rule unjustified homocidal acts or other criminal acts by judicial staffs as justified. Sooner or later with one generation or another full anarchy is doomed to erupt. We are now living in times where you can't tell the good guys from the bad guys or the law officials from the street criminals because now they have actually become one in the same.

    Anyone wants to mouth off about looters and street thugs you better take that same stance on these judicial officials who are also breaking laws.

    I think law officials who kill unarmed persons simply because they wear a badge and the judge rules it is justified I personally feel both should be publicaly hanged

  • silvia

    Everyone has got fed up but the Youths were the's who chose to do someting about this. Now I am not condoning the rioting and the looting, but through many years of oppression, the Youths are lost faith and hope in where they stand in the future and desperately trying top hand on in the merrigoround of society.

  • Ebony

    Why was my comment deleted? What was I saying that wasn't said b4?

  • Silvia

    am from the UK, and living in one of the area the rioting had taking placwe.

    As you all know for many years the MP's we voted in are supposed to have fixed things to help out the poor, instead causing a greater devide between the rich and the poor. Some people throught that with teh new coalition govenment (Concervatives + Lib Dems) there would be great changes. The changes these MP's have been made turned otu to be adverse; cutting welfare, help with house + benefits, raising taxes, raising tuition fees and people over here are stuggling. There are not enough jobs for the youths to be in, there have closed down all the Youth Clubs due to cutting funding in those area as they view this as not a viable and sustainable source to spend money on or invest in. Youths have nowhere to go but to hand out on the streets which puts them always in teh position of being stopped and searched on a regular basis.

    • Deena

      Always making excuses, eh? No individual is ever responsible for the own actions, right? My dogs are better behaved than theses hooligans.

  • Steelcitychick

    @ Jade…I heard that on PRI (Public Radio International)…it seems that this riot has taken up a life of its own….doesn’t seem like this is any longer an issue of an unarmed black man getting killed by white police officers! This is now, all man/woman for themselves, get what you can, while the getting is good!

    I feel bad for tne shop owners who have to start from scratch, if they even reopen!

  • Arnold

    So according to Osagyefo Tongogara, the state caused the riots by cutting back welfare? That's ridiculous.

  • charles000

    Let's put this in plain language, shall we? ____What might have started out as a legitimate dispute over a police shooting incident has, as these types of events almost always tend to do, quickly descended into a bunch of street thugs and gangsta lowlifes simply having a free for all rampage . . . basically a bunch of wild, out of control animals gone completely berserk in their tribal turf regions, destroying their own neighborhoods and terrorizing anyone who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.____Meanwhile, oportunistic self appointed "activists" and pseudo journalists, desperate to glom on to their few fempto seconds of potential attention, rush into the scene hoping to invent some sort of cause that they can be seen at the forefront of.

  • http://twiter.com/monicarharris Moni

    Minus the random editing errors in this article, I found it extremely informative. I just wish violence and looting wasn't always the back-lash response. It doesn't solve the real problems; it only creates more.

  • Paul

    They are just feral animals – ifBritain had the secondamendment do youthink these cowards would be doing this?

  • Gaping azzhole

    Lawwwwwddddd hammm mercy if I catch one of these little ignant niglets fcuking with mt shyt ima curb stomp ‘em and rape dey moms. Word to mutha B.

  • http://beyonkafierce.tumblr.com Andre

    I don’t hear international cries of
    condemnation. I don’t hear international cries to divert the
    Olympics from The UK as a result. The double-standard. I
    remember when South Africa had issues the international
    community was quick to comment about the imminent Soccer
    World Cup, which South Africa hosted immaculately.