Last night was the third day of riots,since the death of a man in Tottenham,who was shot by the police last Thursday,many shops and small businesses in many parts of London were looted with many buildings and cars set alight.Senseless criminality! The looting even reached normanly tranquil areas such as Ealing and Clapham Junction with its department store 'Debenhams' ransacked for over 2 hours with no police around;in fact the police,around 25 of them,were barricaded in Lavender Hill police station with over 300 teenagers in the street taunting the police to come out.A case of the police being scared.
'Mob Rule' was the front page headline on most of today's newspapers.Many of the looters were young teenagers and were even loading cars with their loot!There were also copy-cat looting and violence in other cities:Birmingham,Liverpool,Bristol and Manchester.
The centre of Clapham Junction has been cordoned off with the firefighters still putting out a fire at the 'Party Party ' shop.There were many TV crews,including the BBC and a Dutch station.The BBC interviewed an Indian guy,the owner of an off-licence,luckily he had steel shutters for the front of his shop and he had closed up before the trouble started. Sean FitzPatrick a 25 year-old student was interviewed by some local journalists and also the BBC.
A local woman,who works at the post office said she couldn't work because the post office had been broken in,she also mentioned that she'd seen a mother and her kids with suitcases stealing from the shops.Many of the local residents of Clapham Junction mentioned that the police weren't there and the police that were there were in their police cars/vans well away from the trouble.
Tomorrow's International footbal match between England and Holland has been cancelled.