Pete McCluskey.
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Is this a media beat up, or is it as bad as it seems?
Multiculturalism at work or just bad people? Either way very sad to see.
RIOT police have faced off with youths in fresh violence in London in the third day of disorder after some of the worst rioting in the British capital in years at the weekend.
Scores of young people gathered in a main street in the eastern district of Hackney, smashing up buildings and breaking into a truck that became stranded in the middle of the road, pulling out its contents… Several parked cars were also set on fire…
The trouble began when police tried to carry out a stop and search operation, the BBC said....
Police were also called to Lewisham in south London, where a handful of cars were set alight and several shops were looted.
In Peckham, a poor area in the south of the capital, TV pictures showed a business premises on fire, with flames threatening to spread to neighbouring properties. Youths also tried to set fire to a double decker bus, which was left badly scorched.
The riots broke out in the north London district of Tottenham on Saturday night, following a protest against the death of a local man in a police shooting last week, and the violence spread to other parts of the city on Sunday.
Police said they had made 215 arrests since the riots began with the youngest person arrested an 11-year-old boy. Thirty-five police officers have been injured.
The districts worst hit by the violence at the weekend - Tottenham, Brixton in south London, and now Hackney - are multi-ethnic areas which have high rates of unemployment.
Multiculturalism at work or just bad people? Either way very sad to see.
RIOT police have faced off with youths in fresh violence in London in the third day of disorder after some of the worst rioting in the British capital in years at the weekend.
Scores of young people gathered in a main street in the eastern district of Hackney, smashing up buildings and breaking into a truck that became stranded in the middle of the road, pulling out its contents… Several parked cars were also set on fire…
The trouble began when police tried to carry out a stop and search operation, the BBC said....
Police were also called to Lewisham in south London, where a handful of cars were set alight and several shops were looted.
In Peckham, a poor area in the south of the capital, TV pictures showed a business premises on fire, with flames threatening to spread to neighbouring properties. Youths also tried to set fire to a double decker bus, which was left badly scorched.
The riots broke out in the north London district of Tottenham on Saturday night, following a protest against the death of a local man in a police shooting last week, and the violence spread to other parts of the city on Sunday.
Police said they had made 215 arrests since the riots began with the youngest person arrested an 11-year-old boy. Thirty-five police officers have been injured.
The districts worst hit by the violence at the weekend - Tottenham, Brixton in south London, and now Hackney - are multi-ethnic areas which have high rates of unemployment.