U.K. Riots Escalate More Police in the Streets

England-Netherlands soccer match called off?
English soccer club West Ham United said today's Carling Cup match against Aldershot has been postponed following a request from the police.
"The club was contacted this evening and told that all major public events in London were to be rearranged because of the need to focus police resources elsewhere," the club, which plays in England's second-tier Championship, said in a statement on its website last night.
British police made more than 200 arrests and pledged to put thousands more officers on the streets of London after rioting erupted for a third night and spread to other cities.
Prime Minister David Cameron cut short his Italian vacation to return home for an emergency meeting today on the violence that has seen petrol bombs thrown and vehicles and businesses set ablaze. Tomorrow's exhibition soccer game between England and the Netherlands at Wembley Stadium in northwest London has been postponed, England's Football Association said in a statement.
Cameron is chairing the COBR emergency response committee, as well as meeting Home Secretary Theresa May and Metropolitan Police Service Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin. The Metropolitan Police said on its Twitter Inc. feed that there would be 13,000 extra officers on duty in London over the next 24 hours. It asked all volunteer "special" constables to report for duty, and appealed to their regular employers to support that.
A statement from the Metropolitan Police Service reported "serious outbreaks of disorder," including looting, in a number of London boroughs, including Hackney, Newham, Lewisham, Bethnal Green and Croydon.
Sixty-nine people have been charged, according to police. May told BBC radio today more than 450 people have been arrested so far. The unrest began in the north London suburb of Tottenham on the night of Aug. 6, after a local man of Afro-Caribbean descent, Mark Duggan, was killed in a shootout with police. There was sporadic rioting and looting in other parts of the capital on Aug. 7. At least 35 police officers have been injured.
Police deployed armored vehicles in the Lavender Hill area of the capital to "push back in excess of 150 people," as "disorder and damage was being caused to shops and local businesses, London police reported in a separate statement today. The success of the tactic means that its use will be considered in other areas of the city, the statement said.
May refused to rule out deploying water cannons, which have never been used in the U.K. outside Northern Ireland. She said her message to police would be: "you've had these three nights of violence, you have been changing your tactics, what do you think you now need to do to bring this under control?"
Asked whether troops could be deployed on the streets, May refused to rule it out, saying she preferred the model of "police by consent," with a focus on arrests and prosecutions.
In Hackney, 250 to 300 people gathered in Pembury Estate, setting cars alight and throwing petrol bombs, while in Mare Street, businesses were looted and three officers were injured, police said in a statement. Widespread vandalism included fires at several premises in Croydon, including a "very large blaze at a sofa factory," the statement said
Tokyo-based Sony Corp. said a London warehouse containing Blu-ray discs and DVDs may be on fire. The blaze may have started at about midnight London time, and the company is still assessing the situation, said spokesman Jin Tominari.
More than 1,700 extra police officers were deployed, with support provided by nine police forces from areas around the capital, the statement said.
"There is a significant disorder breaking out in a number of our communities across London," Godwin said in an e-mailed statement last night. "What I have seen is pure violence and pure gratuity. We are seeing communities blighted by the actions of a few."

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[jdebotte]

the police never started it!...some crack dealing wannabe gangsta started this......he got shot....scum...think of all the lives ruined because of this dealer....people who was robbed to line his pocket etc.......

[ItalieSolaire]

Shoot him, shoot him if they get in the shops "this afternoon in Turin. Two hooded men attack the gold Conzano. The owner reacts and hits one of the robbers and die."

[Mimepeople]

@hardcommunist

so your saying that their rocks are more powerfull, these retards just threw some junk at the police

i wouldn't say overpowered but yes the police has been to much of a pussy here

[DubstepSector]

If the police all leaft then nothing would have happend. The mare street arrest which started this was very badly done. Dalston has gone abit mad now. Police sirens every 30 minutes i am hearing. Bad policing. 

[edgroove7]

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[garysquirrelreviews]

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