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I think what this woman said was just totally disrespect...here's a brother who had his own TV show back in the day...she needs to apologize!!!
Tuesday, August 9th 2011 at 1:34PM
Siebra Muhammad
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LONDON — A gritty north London neighborhood erupted in violence overnight with rioters setting buildings and cars ablaze, looting shops and clashing with police after the shooting of a local man by the Metropolitan Police.
Police warned Sunday morning that there were still “isolated pockets of criminality in the Tottenham area” and officers were being deployed on the streets in the neighborhood after London's worst riots in years left 26 officers and three residents injured. Authorities took 42 people into custody.
"These are very distressing scenes for Londoners in general and the local community in particular,” said Commander Stephen Watson. "Our intention at this time is to bring things to as swift a conclusion as we can. Our absolute aim is to restore normality."
The riot stemmed from the killing of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old fatally shot by police during an attempted arrest Thursday as part of an investigation into gun violence in London’s black community. On Sunday, there were conflicting reports of what tipped an initially peaceful protest into the images of burned out buildings and police barricades that Londoners awoke to Sunday morning. Some residents said police had hit a female protester, triggering the violence. But police said the violence started when demonstrators “attacked” two police cars, setting them on fire with Molotov cocktails.
The office of Prime Minister David Cameron denounced the violence as “utterly unacceptable.”
At the same time, local authorities sought to reassure residents of Tottenham that an independent investigation had been launched into the shooting of Duggan.
David Lammy, a lawmaker from Tottenham and lifelong resident, denounced the violence as a “disgrace.”
“The community has had the heart ripped out of it,” he said, saying the fires had left residents homeless and destroyed buildings and public offices. He also seemed to blame Scotland Yard for not moving more swiftly to contain the riots as they escalated late Saturday and spread into Sunday.
He called for answers about “what happened on Thursday,” saying Duggan’s shooting had raised “huge questions.” But, he said, “there can be no excuses for the kinds of scenes that I have seen.”
Tottenham, a poor pocket of the city far from central London’s famous landmarks, has a history of troubled relations with police that both community leaders and Scotland Yard have strived to overcome in recent decades. In 1985, the community erupted into violence in the Broadwater Farm riots after the death of a 49-year-old woman from a heart attack after police burst into her home.
The tensions with police now comes as Scotland Yard is reeling from massive failures in Britain’s phone-hacking scandal, which led to the resignation last month of its police chief, Sir Paul Stephenson.
Wednesday, August 10th 2011 at 1:01PM
Siebra Muhammad
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