Sunday night has seen copycat looting, arson and attacks on the police in several areas of London:
The Metropolitan Police Service press bureau statement deliberately does not use the word "riot":
http://www.met.police.uk/pressbureau/Bur08/page01.htm
(save your own copy of this, since they may well amend or censor it later)
There has been looting in a number of boroughs in north, east and south London by small and mobile groups. Groups of youths continue to attack police officers and a number of police vehicles have been damaged.
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Waltham Forest
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Walthamstow Central
[...]Brixton
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Rival gangs attended Kings College Hospital
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Enfield Town Centre
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Oxford Circus
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Islington
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Ponders End
The Metropolitan Police Press Bureau really do not seem to understand the world wide web and social media:
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The Met Police Twitter feed
https://twitter.com/#!/metpoliceuk
is useless.
They are not giving the innocent public any idea of the areas to avoid, but they have found the time to try to deny reports of a media coverup:
metpoliceuk Metropolitan Police
Police have not requested a #mediablackout and are continuing to provide updates
All that they have to say via Twitter is the very uninformative:
12:45 AM August 8th 2011metpoliceuk Metropolitan Police
Police are responding to a significant amount of criminal activity across London and are deploying officers to tackle it.
No doubt some people will be calling for the Mayor of London, the Acting Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the Prime Minister to interrupt their holidays to return to London.
Why ? What exactly are they going to do that cannot be done over the phone ?
Any such interruption in their holidays would be a sign of weakness, giving the violent criminals more power than they deserve.
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