Brixton Riots - Vodafone shop madness Looting Caught On Camera

Asked if the Metropolitan police were slow to respond to the Tottenham riots, commander Adrian Hanstock replied: "No, not at all." That account, given outside Scotland Yard on Sunday morning, did not correlate with events that had unfolded several miles away in north London hours earlier.

What began as a gathering of around 200 protesters demanding answers over the death of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police on Thursday, culminated 12 hours later in a full-scale riot that saw brazen looting spread across north-London suburbs.

By 5.00am, at Tottenham Hale retail park, teenagers were still emerging from shops into the dawn sunshine, stuffing bags and trolleys with stolen goods and running into back streets.

Some officers had apprehended a handful of looters; others had their phones out and were taking pictures of a burnt-out car.

At exactly the same time, looting was taking place nearly two miles away, on Wood Green high street, where approximately 100 people had spent hours burning cars and breaking into high-street shops. Some were even filling suitcases.

As for police -- who had claimed to have "contained" disturbances six hours earlier -- there was none in sight.

By Sunday night police said there had been 55 arrests, and 26 police officers injured. Yet what marked the weekend's disturbances were not the number of people hurt but the scale of property destruction.

Throughout the borough, shops, pubs, banks and even residential properties had been ransacked and torched.

Firefighters struggled to contain a blaze at an Aldi supermarket and another fire in a building just a few hundred yards away, housing a carpet store. Both were huge fires that -- apart from the rioting -- would have made significant news events in themselves.

These were by all accounts the worst disturbances of their kind since the 1995 Brixton riots. Shocked residents emerging this morning to see the scorched, debris-strewn streets asked two questions. Why had the riot started? And how did it spread?

The crowd that gathered outside Tottenham police station at 5.30pm were by all accounts peaceful. The protesters consisted of local residents, community leaders, and some of Duggan's relatives, including his fiancee, Semone Wilson.

Protesters complained that police and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which is investigating Duggan's death, were not communicating with them.

Wilson, they said, had been forced to call the IPCC to identify the body; other relatives first discovered Duggan had been killed when they saw his photograph on the news.

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[diveplane]

vodacon ...only 3000 pounds a min for calls 

[BlackRoof]

So you join in KNOWING NOTHING and just ROB MY HIGH STREET??? When police stopped Duggan... Three shots were fired. The police only fired two. DUGGAN SHOT AT THE POLICE... So they shot him dead!!! Finish! So you join in just to take stuff because you think you've got an excuse? YOU ARE NOT BIG MAN! YOU ARE NOT RUDE BOY, YOU ARE AN IDIOT, BOY!!!!! Wishing you exactly what you deserve, From Brixton. Stay off of my High Street!

[BlackRoof]

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[rockerfredrick1]

fucking black cunts u all are famous in brixton for shop lifting thats all ur parents used to do in 90s

[johnsmdm]

@mccerz09 ...keep your bloody nose out of lootin bloke....

[PixieBeth93]

@diveplane vodafone is probably one of the cheapest networks?!

[truthhitmanisback]

They should get DOCTAH X to speak on the news of why this happend