London: Rioters arrested on suspicion of attempted murder [View All]

[Turborama]

Source: AP

Posted: 08/08/2011 01:03:45 AM PDT
Updated: 08/08/2011 09:47:58 PM PDT

LONDON—British police say three people have been arrested over the alleged attempted murder of a police officer as violent riots swept through London for a third night and spread to other cities for the first time.

London police said early Tuesday that the suspects were detained and arrested in the Brent area of north London, after a police officer was struck by a car and hospitalized.

The officer and a colleague, who suffered minor injuries, had stopped a number of cars in the belief that the occupants had been involved in the looting of a nearby electrical store.

Police say in a statement the officer was seriously hurt as one of the cars drove away from the scene. It was later stopped and the three people inside were arrested.

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There is nothing noble or admirable about what these yobs are doing. I have seen an interview with a terrified old lady who woke up to see masked robbers in her bedroom, reports of psychos beating up a bus driver and a guy who tried to help him, family businesses burnt down (that enormous fire was a furniture business which had been in the same family for 5 generations) and/or robbed of all their stock, numerous cars burnt for no reason whatsoever, the list goes on.

The media are calling them "protesters" but this misnomer of these recreational rioters/thieves demeans the real political protesters.

Anyone who sympathizes with this mindless violence and theivery need to ask themselves, "How would I feel if it was my mother who was woken up by masked thieves in her house?", "How would I feel if I went to my car and it was a burnt wreck?", "How would I feel if I saw a bus driver getting beaten up for earning an honest living?", "How would I feel if my family business had been robbed and burnt to the ground?"