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The following is from the BBC:
David Cameron said every action would be taken to restore order, with contingency plans for water cannon to be available at 24 hours’ notice.
On Tuesday night, unrest spread to cities including Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham, with shops being looted and set alight.
Three men died when they were hit by a car in Birmingham.
Mr Cameron, speaking after a meeting of the government’s Cobra emergency committee, said police had the legal backing to use any tactics necessary to bring the situation under control, including using baton rounds.
He said: “This continued violence is simply not acceptable, and it will be stopped. We will not put up with this in our country. We will not allow a culture of fear to exist on our streets.”
But president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, Sir Hugh Orde, ruled out deploying water cannon for now, saying the tactic was not suited to the current unrest.
“Water cannon are used to deal with fixed crowds to buy distance,” he said.
“The evidence from your camera people is showing very clearly these are fast-moving crowds, where water cannon would not be appropriate.”
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Theresa May told the BBC she had ordered all police forces in England and Wales to mobilise special constables, cancel leave and adopt a “tough, robust approach”.
Earlier, Mr Cameron said: “We have seen the worst of Britain, but I also believe we have seen some of the best of Britain – the million people who have signed up on Facebook to support the police, coming together in the clean-up operations.”
He said more arrests would take place as police worked through CCTV evidence. “Picture by picture, the criminals are being identified and arrested,” he said.
“There are pockets of our society that are not just broken, but are frankly sick.
“It is a complete lack of responsibility in parts of our society, people allowed to feel the world owes them something, that their rights outweigh their responsibilities and their actions do not have consequences. Well, they do have consequences.”
In London, people have been appearing before magistrates after some courts stayed open throughout the night to deal with some of the scores of people facing charges.
The prime minister said anyone convicted of violent disorder would be sent to prison.
London mayor Boris Johnson urged the government to reconsider its plans to cut police numbers, saying the argument had been “substantially weakened” by the riots.
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i would like if people who live in London can post comments to tell us first hand how bad it is, or if it sounds worse in the media like it usually does
i’m not actually in london at the moment but my parents are. And yes it sounds as bad as the article makes it – where my parents live the entire high street was closed as there were rumours the rioters were coming to the area so people were too scared to leave their shops open. In that same area they didnt hold kinnos services in shul tisha be’av night in case the rioters would come into the shul!
oh and if you want to see how bad it really is – just look at the photo evidence on the BBC website – i have no words to describe it!!
What is England waiting for??? Blast away!
The reason why they cant stop and contain the riots are, England is an extremely liberal progressive country they are not allowed to use water canons and tear gas out of concern they might offend the poor under privileged youths. So they disarm the people and they strip the police of using aggressive force so what do they expect