London on lockdown and Cameron flies home - pictures

[Liberal_in_LA]

London on lockdown and Cameron flies home: Police face gangs armed with petrol bombs and poles on THIRD night of riots and cynical looting

Violence in Hackney, Peckham, Deptford, Lewisham and Croydon this evening
Prime Minister David Cameron is returning from Italy tonight to chair COBRA meeeting
Met's acting commissioner Tim Godwin urged parents to get their children off the streets
Police in Birmingham say several shops have been attacked
300 officers drafted in from 12 other forces to bring unrest under control
215 people arrested since Saturday night - including one aged 11 - and 25 charged


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023554/LONDON-RIOTS-Third-night-violence-police-consider-banning-Notting-Hill-carnival.html#ixzz1UTIvyEp5

[marmar]

1. What is "cynical" looting?

nt

[DURHAM D]

4. I think it is the opposite of "subsistence thieving". nt

[villager]

6. "happy" looting is what the ruling elites do the rest of us...

n/t

[rurallib]

2. Since it worked so good there, let's do it here.

[snagglepuss]

3. It's unbelievable that niether Cameron or Osbourne felt the need to fly home

sooner from their holidays especially after the recent resignations of top police brass. It just goes to show how utterly unconnected they are to underlying rage as well as the danger people face from a yob mentality that has become rampant.

[BooScout]

5. It's not underlying rage....

It's a bunch of criminals acting like assholes stealing whatever isn't nailed down and buring down peoples houses.

[villager]

7. "When asked 'why' she says, 'recession. We've no money and nothing to do."

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