At least 215 people have been arrested and 25 charged following the riots across london over the last two. News uk crime mark duggans family sue metropolitan police over 2011 shooting that sparked london riots. The history of riots in london shows that persistent. The timeline of the events of the riots spanned from 610 august. The 2011 england riots, more widely known as the london riots, were a series of riots between 6 and 11 august 2011, when thousands of people rioted in cities and towns across england, which saw looting, arson, and mass deployment of police, and resulted in the deaths of five people. We examine networks of riot response oriented around cleanup or. The morning after riots gripped its main shopping thoroughfare, parts of ealing, northwest london, looked less like a middleclass suburb and more like a war zone. On august 6th 2011, people gathered in tottenham, london, to protest the police shooting of a local man, mark duggan. London and birmingham who hosted discussions among their peers. Recent news of widespread rioting and looting in several english cities has shocked most people both in england and the rest of the world.
Social medias role in the london riots chris nelson august 9, 2011 on the news, the rioters look like gangstas from compton, or something. Using twitter data from the 2011 london riots, we analyze emergent social networks directly relating to response to crisis. Various factors are related to the cause of london riots such as the gang culture, social morality breakdown, hooliganism, class tension, racial tension, criminality and unemployment. On 12 august 2011, as part of a concerted, crossgovernment action, the government announced a series of measures to help rebuild communities following the riots and public. Rioters took to the streets in birmingham following early disorder in london, beginning in. What began as a peaceful gathering at the police station in the. Much discussion has taken place about the social implications of the incidents. Police are on the streets of tottenham, north london, where overnight riots saw petrol bombs thrown at officers and patrol cars and buildings set alight. London riots spiral out of control the independent.
What is the story behind the london riots of august 2011. We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. The august 2011 english riots published on august 24, 2011. The majority of these software engineers were either accountants who are often good at maths or mathematicians from university. This is the tottenham i was born in, the tottenham i grew up in and that i live in. London riots report from bbc news 8 august 2011 youtube. Riots in london and around the country saw widespread looting and buildings set alight. On the big screen, he projected a map from his softwares filtering. The financial center, culture and politics are housed in london. August 4, 2011 police investigating gun crime in a black community shoot 29yearold mark duggan after stopping him in a taxi in tottenham, north london. Speeding driver catapults into the air after hitting roundabout. Shops windows are smashed and a police car is damaged. A double decker bus burns as riot police try to contain a large group of.
Violence and looting spread across london and to other cities in england. The academic, social and political figures were debated related to the cause of riots in london. The 2011 english summer riots revisited a year after the riots in england, our political class has shamefully shied away from tackling the problems of race and a destructive black street culture. London riots case study write up1 overview of contemporary case study 1 what were the context of the riots. One widely reported video on tv was particularly disturbing and perhaps even more. Ugly scenes of violence, rioting and looting have spread across the length and breadth of london and. From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 london riots. Using criminological theory to explain the london riots. Its the work of filmmaker george amponsah, who started following. Here is a timeline of what happened, starting with most recent events. August 67 the violence continues through the night in tottenham. Kevin mitnick on being the worlds most infamous hacker. A change from a great britain to a country with a feral underclass.
Figure 3 businesses affected in london by august 2011 disorders. August 4, 2011 police investigating gun crime in the black community shoot 29yearold mark duggan after stopping him in a taxi in. The 2011 england riots were a spate of violence, arson and looting that spread across several areas of britain in august 2011. London riots two nights of rioting in london s tottenham neighborhood erupted following protests over the shooting death by police of a local man, mark duggan.
Englands cities and towns in august 2011 was unprecedented. Shopowners defend their businesses in east london duration. By 9 august 2011 563 arrests had been made in london since the start of the disruption. To provide an immediate, shortterm evaluation of the cause, the social factors contributing to the london riots appear to be poverty, unemployment and a feeling of disenfranchisement. Timeline of violence and looting over the last week. Those involved in the riots moved into residential streets once the police got near and got into golf gtis to speed to their next act of riot. The past 75 years in england including the london riots in 2011. On the third night of violence and looting in london, the unrest spread across the capital to areas such as hackney, croydon and peckham.
In croydon, south london, police and firefighters had to tackle burning shops and. How the london riots showed us two sides of social networking. These discussions have highlighted the ways in which racial injustice acted as a driver for the riots, and crucially have. Ben ferguson interviewed dozens of rioters for our study, in kitchens, cafes. Reconstruction after world war ii august 2011 a wave of riots swept the city after police shot and killed a 29yearold man who was suspected of involvement with gunrelated crimes. By the early hours of sunday the 7th, the riots spread to 12 areas in london and by monday the 8th disorders spread nationally to more than 60 areas. At least 215 people have been arrested and 25 charged following the riots across london over the last two days. For every person on camera throwing stones there will be 1,000 others off camera rebuilding what has been destroyed. An inquest previously found duggan was lawfully killed, and a. The year 2011 brought waves of crowd unrest on a worldwide scale unseen for more than three decades. Here metro takes a look at the unrest in ealing during.
As evening falls, looting and violence erupts across the capital. Angel, islington, stoke newington and wood green were in police lockdown. In 2011, london faced a sober experience due to the riots conducted by thousands of people. Mark duggans death and the london riots latest on itv news.
All the uk news the shooting of mark duggan by police in tottenham was. August 11, 2011 previous post getting it right is platform agnostic. Media in category 2011 london riots the following 71 files are in this category, out of 71 total. London the rioting and looting that convulsed poorer sections of. August 4, 2011 police investigating gun crime in the black community shoot 29 yearold mark duggan after stopping him in a taxi in. Rioters attack banks, set fire to cars and loot shops. Riots in tottenham after mark duggan shooting protest. The triangulated data and the crime statistics were used to produce demographic.
Having lived in london through the brixton riot of 1981 and the poll tax riots of 1990, these riots were completely different in tone. The man accused of starting the 2011 riots and what he did next. August 4, 2011 police investigating gun crime in a black community shoot. The august 2011 riots in london prompted many commentators to look back on previous riots in the city and the country to see what common threads, if any, run through outbreaks of public disorder. August 4, 2011 police investigating gun crime in the black community shoot 29yearold mark duggan after stopping him in a taxi in tottenham, north london. Jerry white examines the gordon riots, the hyde park riots of 1855 and the brixton riots of 1981 and finds that perceived inequalities and injustice. Selforganized, hypernetworked revoltscoming to a city. Police condemn a wave of copycat criminal activity across london in a second night of looting and disorder following riots in tottenham. What started as a riot has escalated into barbaric acts of pure criminality. Twitter users have adopted a convention of hashtags to support this and other uses of microblogging services. But there were calls for a more interventionist approach during the riots, with claims police were standing by as shops were ransacked and burned. London riots took place on 6th to 11th august 2011. On tuesday evening, while london remained fairly calm, the riots escalated in other cities across west and east midlands, as well as greater manchester and.
This description of duggan continues to be repeated, for example by nirpal dhaliwal in the london evening standard on 29 march 2012. The protest devolved into a citywide spate of riots, looting and arson. Marcus knoxhooke was at the heart of the 2011 riots sparked by the death of. August 78 violence spreads to enfield in northeast london. It occurred on a number of london boroughs and surrounding towns and cities in england. Dozens were left homeless after a night of riots on the streets of tottenham after a peaceful demonstration on 6 august over the death of a man who was shot by police turned violent. Mark duggans family sue metropolitan police over 2011. How the london riots showed us two sides of social networking the role of social media, in particular twitter, has come under scrutiny once peter bright aug 10, 2011 10. In august 2011 two nights of rioting in london s tottenham neighborhood erupted following protests over the shooting death by police of a. These are the sources and citations used to research using criminological theory to explain the london riots 2011. Hashtag lifespan and social networks during the london riots.