The focus for the few that are left is turbulence in the world economy. They say he was a suspected criminal under surveillance and believed to be armed. At first the shooting draws little attention. Subscription Notification. We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. Please update your billing details here. Please update your billing information. Looters run down the road carrying plasma televisions.
Brixton's Effra Road retail park is under a similar onslaught. I went in one of the shops took a load of cigarettes, and actually gave it away to an old woman. People wanted to hurt us really, really bad. Like it was just a normal day. Everyone was doing it and no-one was getting caught. They were just filling up and walking out. So I'm thinking, 'these are just old people and they're still robbing'. Firefighters are called to Enfield, Brixton and Walthamstow.
Do what we have to do. Cause mayhem. It felt like we were on a leash for years and we've come off that leash. There was some guy, a white guy, in shorts, flip-flops and a straw hat. At one stage, it was like a street party. I just went down there as a spectator. I really did. And it just seemed to me that they were fixated on this Duggan being the reason.
Waited for someone to come out with something that I wanted - and I just took it from them. The car was round the corner and I just put it in the car, come back and do the same thing.
After a lull during daylight hours, skirmishes break out again as evening approaches. Hackney and Peckham see rioting and fire-starting. By the time darkness has fallen, fires are burning in Croydon and Ealing. Police are overstretched and cannot put on an imposing display, nor make mass arrests. Stones, chairs, coins, shoes There was a lot of chat on social media about people looking to kill a police officer.
Police officers from the Essex and Suffolk forces are sent to help the Met. As the clock ticks into a fourth day of unrest, disorder spreads beyond London. A police station in Handsworth, Birmingham, is set on fire. One in Nottingham is firebombed. Cars burn in south Liverpool. There's rioting in the centre of Manchester, in Salford and West Bromwich. In the Bootle area of Merseyside a dumper truck is used to break into a post office.
A couple of lads on a moped came right up to the line - they were counting us and then they went back. Then the whole crowd started marching up the road, with a four-door saloon car as a figurehead. It was absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, attempted murder. Rioters are not just attacking the police and looting - they start to set fire to their own neighbourhoods, including shops with residential flats above.
Among the targets is a local landmark, the year-old Reeves furniture store. Lewisham has roaming groups of people stirring up trouble. At least people loot a Tesco in Bethnal Green. Fires are started in Lambeth, petrol bombs thrown in Hackney. Because we wanted to see everything on fire. To show them, 'what can you do now? There's nothing you can do'". And I felt good. Mr Cameron says there are contingency plans for water cannon to be used at 24 hours' notice. The Ministry of Justice says there are enough prison places for all.
The shops ran out of stuff. All the phone shops went instantly. Magistrates' courts in London, Solihull and Manchester among others stay open through the night to fast-track those already in custody for disorder-related offences. The shops did not trouble them. That's the shops their mums and their gran have to go to. The post office - they've got grandparents - there's no post office for the elderly. Police combed CCTV footage to identify culprits. Over the following months, more than 2, people were traced, charged and convicted.
Like, I'm on it. And it was blatantly obvious they were stolen. And then someone asked me for a pair and I gave them a pair, and the street cameras caught my face. There was no official government inquiry after the riots, but there were reports by other bodies.
Opportunism, social deprivation, discontent with the police and unemployment were all mentioned, but a single overwhelming cause for what happened over those five days in August was not pinpointed.
Over the days that followed, the police were roundly criticised. The Met later acknowledged that its inability to monitor social media meant it could not get ahead of events. Analyses following the riots found that police tactics were hampered by inadequate numbers, that they should sometimes have intervened more promptly and assertively, and that intelligence was flawed.
They all praised the bravery of the officers on the frontline. Ministry of Justice figures show a total of 1, offenders were jailed for their part in the trouble. Rioting was seen as an aggravating factor. Sentences were longer and more people were sent to prison than would normally be expected for the same charges under different circumstances. Nice little story for them, isn't it?
Clearly, riots are not the same as non-violent protest. And indeed, the coalition government went out of its way to argue that the riots had no political content of any kind. But the riots nonetheless did totally derail this reform agenda. Over the next few years, protests came to be marred by increasingly aggressive policing , while courts took the lead in setting anti-protestor precedents.
The turn towards a more punitive and authoritarian approach to protest policing has hardened in the last few years. This is particularly obvious with the response to the non-violent direct action protestors known as the Stansted 15 , who were wrongly prosecuted under legislation intended to deal with terrorism.
It is also clear in the massive, routine surveillance of demonstrations and, more recently, the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill that the Home Office is now seeking to enact. But, ten years on, the massive experiment in so-called emergency justice that followed them does look like an important turning point. More prosecutions, faster trials and longer sentences may soon be the norm not just for riots, but for protests of any kind.
Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Edition: Available editions United Kingdom. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. Crowds protesting the death of Mark Duggan at the hands of the police sparked protests across the country. Matteo Tiratelli , UCL.
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