Britian Youths go Looting Crazy

Over the weekend Britain suffered the worst kind of violence I have ever witnessed.  I turned to watch the news as you do to keep up with current affairs and was gobsmacked when I saw Tottenham burning, intrigued to know why such act was carried out I ran to my computer to investigate. Saturday’s riot started as a peaceful protest in relations to Thursday shooting of a 29-year-old man who was pronounced dead on the scene. Two police patrol cars, a building and a double-decker bus were torched as rioters clashed with officers in front of Tottenham Police Station.

Mark Duggan was shot dead by armed policed on Thursday. He was stopped in a mini cab in which an arrest was to be made but instead fire arms were exchanged resulting in Duggan’s death. The community was shocked and angry at the behaviour of the police and took to the streets on Saturday to protest, but things quickly turned for the worst when violence broke out and was uncontainable by police.

According to SkyNews:

Fresh questions have been raised over the shooting of Mark Duggan amid speculation a bullet found in a police radio could have come from an officer's gun. The 29-year-old father-of-four died in Tottenham on Thursday after he was shot by police. An Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation is under way into the incident. Initial reports said an officer may have escaped serious injury because his radio got in the way of a bullet. Somehow the media story became one of a shootout between Mark Duggan and the police, but how did that happen?

However, The Guardian newspaper has quoted a source saying initial tests suggest the bullet was police issue. The IPCC has said it would not comment on this until all ballistics and forensic tests were complete - but it has confirmed a non-police issue gun was found at the scene. Mr Duggan's death led to rioting and looting in north London at the weekend. Riots broke out in Tottenham on Saturday night.

Sky's Martin Brunt said: "We don't know if these claims are true, the IPCC say there is a need for more tests. "A lot of this is about public perception - there is this idea that there was a shootout. "Nobody has said that officially, although the IPCC has said that a non-police gun was found at the scene. "The suggestion is that Mark Duggan had a gun. We don't know if he fired it and even if he didn't fire it, it doesn't rule out police justification for shooting him. "If he was carrying a gun and made a move towards it that would have been enough justification for the police to open fire.

The riots were roundly condemned as the shocked community surveyed the devastation caused. Community and political leaders were swift to criticise the rioting, looting and arson that swept through the area after the mood at the protest turned nasty. Deputy mayor for policing in London Kit Malthouse told Sky News the capital was one of the "safest big cities on earth".

He added: "I think it is worth stressing that this is quite a small group of people within our community in London who have decided to perpetrate violence and who, frankly, are looking for stuff to nick.

"They're picking particular kinds of stores, whether it is because they want a new set of trainers or whatever it is. What we have to be careful to do, in the media and in politics, is not create some kind of atmosphere of excuse for their behaviour."

Disturbances erupted in several boroughs, with reports of trouble in Enfield, Brixton, Walthamstow and Islington. Riot police and dog handlers were called to Enfield on Sunday evening after a group of youths caused damage to shops. Disorder then spread to Brixton in the early hours of this morning, where a number of shops were also attacked and looted.

Wow this is no longer justice for one man’s soul this is now about ignorant people taking advantage of a vulnerable situation rightly said these people are just looking for an excuse to nick stuff. So Sad!