01.27 #londonriots i suppose the most exciting thing about this is seeing that the government/police power over us is merely an illusion. London

01.25 RT @ramitanavai: Kitchen staff at the Ledbury came out with knives to chase armed mob who were robbing diners. Brave guys. #londonriots

01.22 joroach I saw 3 or 4 young women looting Tesco Express for nappies and milk tonight. Difficult and serious problems beneath this mess #londonriots

01.15

01.13 20 hoodies just smashed a window at princess of Wales pub in #primrosehill #londonriots.

01.12 misszan i fear the hatred, the namecalling, the anger, the prejudice. the damage to buildings can be repaired. things can be replaced #londonriots

01.11 simonprm Simon Burke-Kennedy

01.10 Fun watching the middle class white people berate the looters from their high horse of privilege. #londonriots

01.05 alhimself I usually complain that there are no shops anywhere near my flat. Tonight I’m seeing the upside. #londonriots

01.00 The Big Society: local youths coming together to wreck their own communities without any interference gov. #londonriots

00.59 ITV news trainee Ben Schofield has confirmed that disturbances are taking place in Liverpool, in the Toxteth area. Also reports of violence in nearby Smithdown Road and Lawrence Road.

Ben’s tweeting @benschofield:

• Yes – Liverpool now burning too. That’s my car on fire. #riotshttp://t.co/Fprk0Zi

• #riots in Liverpool. Toxteth area. This photo is on Grove St.http://t.co/gstPVI6

• Barricading ourselves in. Fire brigade is here. Front of building hot, smoky

00.58  The #londonriots are not revolutionary. In a revolution you bring down a corrupted elite, not your handworking neighbours.

00.57 Just a head-count: who out there would go out now and stand with shopkeepers protecting shops? Please RT #londonriots

00.55 jamesjamesbrown Can’t believe how conservative so many people are. This isnt just a looting raid. Don’t remember such condemnation for the students.

00.53 Google Map of #londonriots verified areas Affected areas, with sources where appropriate http://bit.ly/rg8ruZ

00.52 Sky news – unverified reports of riots in Toxteth Liverpool

00.51 Interesting take on #londonriots http://t.co/i2knZr2

00.50 BBC News Police station in Holyhead Road, #Handsworth is on fire #Birmingham #ukriots #londonriots

00.49 Police have said they have ran out of resources

00.48 ramitanavai Rumours were true – Office shoes, Walmer Castle pub and Ledbury resto all raided by a mob with knives in Ladbroke Grove. #londonriots

00.45 ramitanavai Just got told off by a cop for cycling the wrong way up the Portobello Road. The cheek. #londonriots

00.43 #londonriots real causes this kind violent disorder are highly complex, but sure like a virus, reinvents itself over time, highly contagious

00,42 samgpdwilliams Horrible, horrible scenes in Clapham. 100s of kids in masks (from fancy dress shop set on fire) now robbing passers by. Lawless #londonriots

00.41 If you need a cab tonight, good luck. I just spent one hour to finally book one. Feel sorry for those in emergencies. #londonriots

00.40 I hear turks protecting dalston, Bangladeshis protecting brick lane and muslims (sorry for being generic) doin same in w.chapel #londonriots

00.35 stacks3stripe Just drove through chalk farm. Fucked.

00.34 If you keep telling people who can’t afford stuff to buy stuff, they might just end up taking stuff #londonriots

00.33 ”The violence, which is unrelated to any football issues, began late Saturday…” excellent disclaimer clause there, Al Jazeera #londonriots

00.32 Hackney – worrying account from the Guardian’s Jason Rodrigues, who has just been accosted by youths on his way home:

I’ve just returned from Hackney riots and was ambushed just off Essex Road and had my bike snatched by a group of six masked teenagers waiting on Ecclesbourne Road who were shouting “take the bike, take the bike”.

I was forced to swerve away from them but crashed to the ground. Just as one of the thieves grabbed my bike from under me a red van raced screeched around the corner and smashed into a parked car. Two young men then got out and the man in passenger seat then put his hand in his pocket and threatened to pull a on knife on the thieves, accusing them of stealing his bike earlier.

A violent scuffle broke out and the thieves gave up the stolen bikes. Everyone seemed to walk away from the incident, but criminal minded local youths seem to be taking advantage of the lack of police presence due to trouble elsewhere.

00.31 You can’t blame those looters. Some of them don’t even have a Blackberry Curve… #londonriots

00.30 Party store on fire in Clapham.

00.28 Stephen Khan reports from Bethnal Green, where there was violence earlier:

I’ve just walked from Liverpool St to Roman Road – so along length of Bethnal Green Road (not smartest move of my life, but Beth Green tube stn was shut). All a bit of a mess. Shops smashed along Bethnal Green Road including a Cash Converters and an amusement arcade. Small groups of guys wandering around along length of the road. Other groups standing guard outside small shops such as off licences, grocers and newsagents. Far from scenes we’re seeing in Croydon or Hackney, but tense. No police on ground there.

00.25 MoustafaAyad Kids break some windows, riot police show up and run down a dead in street. It’s Benny Hill out here #londonriotshttp://twitpic.com/635rje

00.15 notice how the sky reporter is standing in front of a shop with the word BLACKS in lights #subtlehint #londonriots

00.14 The Turkish community of Dalston are chasing away rioters. #londonriots #greatlondoners http://t.co/PMltfnN

00.13 Other countries must be laughing at the UK now, a minority of teens have taken over the streets!! #londonriots

00.12  kimlenghills Kim-Leng Hills    If they dare come to Hampstead, we Hampsteadonians will take them on with our Chelsea tractors and credit card ninja stars

00.11  #londonriots will mark a turning point in UK racism. Muslims just became much more desirable neighbours.

00.10PaulLewis Paul LewisThru #Camden - sealed by police – now in #Chalk Farm. Shops being gutted.

00.09

00.08 Ealing – little fuckers have been steaming into old people’s houses.

00.07  PaulLewis Paul Lewis #ChalkFarm man in mask: “Hamsptead, bruv. Let’s go Rob Hampstead.”

00.06 thisisredeye Red-Eye #londonriots hoodies tried to loot an Asian mans shop until he came out with his mates, cricket bats + 2×4′s & beat the daylight out of them

00.05  AmandaJDavies Amanda Davies
Eeek! Youths in hoodies running past end of my road. Do you think I’ll scare them off if I go out in my flowery winceyette pjs? #londonriots

00.04 DeinsyB Deiniol Buxton  - They’ve looted 24hr amusement arcade nxt to my flats on Bethnal Green rd. Alarms blaring. Going to be a long sleepless night #londonriots

00.02  Rioting in Camden.

00.00  Hackney – Rioting and Special Brew. The perfect day out.

Monday 8th August

23.58 profanityswan Andy Dawson - Cameron’s coming home. If these knobheads had any gumption, they’d head over to Downing Street to meet the cunt.

23.56 twitter - Has Fox News blamed the Muslems yet? #londonriots

23.53 daddydazed SkyNews report on smashed Boots store and looted imodium. Thats a man with a serious case of diarrhoea #londonriots

23.45 Riots in Dalston.  Bus set on fire in shacklewell lane earlier.

“The single deck bus is now cordoned off and there doesn’t seem to be much damage, but the incident has clearly shaken the large Turkish community here. Many shopkeepers are on the street talking about how they chased away the gang of youths behind the bus fire.

“We beat up four of them quite badly and they ran off,” one man, who wouldn’t give his name, said. Another said: “this is not justice, coming here and trying to attack us.” Notably several businesses are still open ascot usual here, unlike other violence hit areas.

We’ve just watched a mob of locals chase a gang of hoodies down the main road, with police vans on full siren in pursuit.”

23.45  Reliable reports of riots now in Camden, Notting Hill andColliers Wood.

The Wimbledon Guardian had this from Colliers Wood earlier:

Shops and petrol stations have been looted as Colliers Wood becomes another target of youth violence in London.

Gangs of well over 100 youths have targeted the Tandem Centre in Tandem Way, where a police van was attacked by rioters throwing bottles and rocks.

A standoff has now developed after police withdrew from the Tandem Centre, where the rioters are now trying to break into the shops, which include Sports Direct, JD Sports, PC World and Mothercare.

23.41:  Hackney  ”the rioters are getting bolder now …they have the upper hand here, police are moving back.”

23.39 Nothing says “Fight the Power” like a new pair of trainers, a new mobile phone and some burger buns.

23.38  Croydon “Saw one young masked man who was carrying burger buns.”

23.37 Birmingham Riots
Adidas store has been looted, tons of coat hangers down new st. Orange store a mess with bits of phones.

23.35

23.34: Reports of shooting of a man in Croydon

23.33  Reports of rioting in Ealing. Windows smashed. Car on fire.

23.20  Cheeky looter posing with his stolen booty on facebook.

23.19 Unconfirmed reports: #londonriot has spread to Notting Hill- A member of the public has just been recorded throwing a yoghurt pot at a wall.

23.17 Three Riot vans parked outside Apple Store at Oxford Circus http://t.co/abh7uxr

23.15 Huge, huge, huge kudos to this old lady telling rioters precisely how idiotic they are http://www.twitvid.com/4JTZH

23.05 Clapham Junction Currys Looting

23.01 Clapham Looting – Debenhams

23.00 Croydon Looting

22.58 Brixton Currys looting grime style

22.57 Twitter Heard it all now. That woman outside Currys Digital in Clapham justifying looting by saying “we’re getting our taxes back”.

22.56 Twitter jamesjamesbrown james brown
running battles now on upper street n1 between staff of aveda and spacenk

22.55 Rioting in Bethnal Green High Street video
Shot earlier today.

22.50 Kicking off in Chalk Farm.
twitter:
Just had a phone call from @phoenixsrainbow Kicking off in #chalkfarm windows being smashed as i was taking the call #londonriots

22.47 NGw4 NG
I assume we aren’t sending in the army as we have no oil to fight over? #londonriots

22.46 Twitter: dazjones Darren Jones
At least we know the #londonriots will be over in the morning. Jeremy Kyle starts at 9.30am.

22.42 Girl no older than 14 just walked out of debenhams. Could barely hold all her loot. #claphamjunction #londonriots

22.39 Reports that the great symbol of political oppression Lewisham JD Sports was attacked.

22.33 Twitter daddydazed Glenn B
Half a dozen kids struggling to remove a tv from a wall. The youth of today are pathetic

22.20 I know the 80s is back in fashion but are we doing the 84 riots as well?

22.15 Birmingham city centre closed off. Reports of disorder all eveneing. Mobile phone shops looted.

22.12 Croydon shopkeeper in tears on Sky after his family business is destroyed by fire. Poor poor man. Riot is usually an exclusion clause in insurance policies.Five generations of business destroyed by mindless thuggery.

22.11 Twitter AlanFisher Alan Fisher
how can these people afford to throw petrol bombs #londonriots

22.10 Twitter AndrewHaydSmith Andrew Hayden-Smith
Parents urged to ‘Call your children’. Call them what? ‘Thieving little vandals’? #Londonriots

22.09 Twitter punbelievable Punbelievable
Reports from Hampton Court Palace suggest a small quartet of men in heraldic costume have just begun luting. #londonriots

22.02 Twitter mslulurose Lulu Rose
The Youth of the Middle East rise up for basic freedoms.The Youth of London rise up for a HD ready 42″ Plasma TV #londonriots

22.01 Bus driver attacked. I know you can wait ages for one but is that really necessary?

22.00 twitter – james brown
wish sky would stop asking parents to make sure their kids arent involved. my dads rung six times now

21.55; This isn’t political its pure looting.

21.50: TV: Is rioting the correct way to express your discontent? Young Man: Yes, you wouldn’t be talking to me now if we didn’t riot, would you?

21.44: Bookies beng smashed up in Lavender Hill.

21.43: David Cameron on his way home from holiday.

21.40 Deputy Mayor urging parents to “get their children off the streets”. “criminally minded taking the opportunities”

21.36 Sky Reporter in Clapham says its “pure opportunism”.

21.34 200 youths destroying shops in Clapham. Kids of 16 laughing. Currys is the looting shop of choice.

21.30 “Its criminal thuggery” say Met Police

21.25 Cars ablaze in Hackney, Croydon and Lewisham

21.00 “Its a warzone here” Peckham resident

20.43 Kicking off in Seven Sisters.

“At five lane junction outside the Three Sisters pub a police car just tried to drive down a road blocked by a gang of youths. The windscreen was smashed and pelted with bricks before the driver managed to speed off. Someone screamed that the police car had run a person over but it wasn’t the case. Extremely dangerous for any police to go near.”

20.05 Lawlessness is spreading across the capital

19.56: Paul Lewis is tweeting from Hackney – here’s his last few updates.

• I can see TV cameras and police the other sides of barricades. Explosions here. #Hackney http://yfrog.com/h2jumppj

19.51: Helicopter pictures now showing clashes between police and protesters in Hackney. Police and rioters can be seen lining up at opposite ends of a wide street in Hackney, with the occasional missile being thrown. Police edging forward slowly. Hard to know where to report on at the moment.

19.48: Lisa O’Carroll reports that a “general air of panic” has descended on Camberwell, just a mile or two from both Peckham and Brixton.

One restaurant has already taken precaution of boarding up his windows in the event of trouble and hundreds of people disgorged from buses are walking church street in both directions.

Several knots of youths wearing black scarves around their mouths are walking away while other on bikes are weaving in and out of traffic heading towards elephant and castle.
Bus driver from Peckham is reporting that morrisons was ransacked. ‘my son told me. I spoke to him 45m ago.’

19.40: Guardian journalist Matt Taylor in central Peckham, where he is with a large group:

There is group of several hundred people on the streets, members of which have just looted an ABC pharmacy in middle of Peckham.

A line of riot police have just charged the group, and it seems as if we’re now in a running battle with the police. It’s a very tense situation.

Over last the couple of hours the group had smashed windows while a bus was burnt out and at least four other buses damaged after they had been abandoned.

18.45: Dave Hill, the Guardian’s London blogger, is in Hackney, east London, where skirmishes have been occurring this afternoon.

A local police officer said shops in Hackney began closing their shutters after hearing “rumours” of trouble initially emanating from BlackBerry Messenger exchanges. Most had locked up by early afternoon as support officers began arriving in increasing numbers in the vicinity of Hackney Central railway station and three masked youths riding bicycles appeared on the main shopping thoroughfare of Mare Street.

A series of stand-offs with members of the public began shortly after a large group of police detained two men against the wall of Hackney’s Old Town Hall building, now a betting shop, and a crowd gathered to watch, many of them photographing the events. After some brief skirmishes and an angry verbal tirade against a police cluster by a young woman in the graveyard to the rear of the betting shop, an officer shouted to a colleague to “get the Natos,” a reference to riot helmets.

Police vehicles and officers in helmets holding riot shields eventually blocked off access to Mare Street south of its pedestrianized Narrow Way section and the railway bridge, as buses backed up along adjoining Amhurst Road and a helicopter buzzed overhead.

Reactions of onlookers varied from a man telling an officer moving a youth on to “get your hands off him, pig,” to an afterschool club worker declaring to police that “these kids shouldn’t be out here, they should be back in their yard,” and saying that if she was in charge of dealing with rioters she’d “tear gas their asses”.

16.00 Looting in Hackney. Youths grabbing the latest styles for Carhaart.

Saturday 6th August

Riot Porn. Youths riot in Tottenham.

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