More Riots Continue In UK Spread To 4 More British Cities

SMH at the authorities calling this “mindless thuggery”…

A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country’s worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. In London, groups of young people rampaged for a third straight night, setting buildings, vehicles and garbage dumps alight, looting stores and pelting police officers with bottles and fireworks. The spreading disorder was an unwelcome warning of the possibility of violence for leaders organizing the 2012 Summer Olympics in less than a year.

Neighborhoods across the capital faced a massive clean-up of smashed glass, bricks, bottles and gutted buildings as police reinforcements reclaimed the streets from the youths. On Monday, police made a rare decision to deploy armored vehicles in some of the worst-hit districts. However, authorities still struggled to keep pace with the chaos unfolding at flashpoints across London, in the central city of Birmingham — where a police station was set ablaze, the western city of Bristol and the northwestern city of Liverpool.

Citing “sickening scenes,” British prime minister David Cameron announced that 16,000 police officers would be deployed on London’s streets on Tuesday — up from 6,000 on Monday night. Cameron, who cut short his summer vacation in Italy and recalled Parliament from its summer recess to deal with the crisis, also promised “even more robust police action.”

“This is criminality pure and simple and it needs to be confronted,” he added. “Justice will be done and these people will see the consequences of their actions. If you are old enough to commit these crimes, you are old enough to face the punishment.”

Authorities acknowledged that major new bouts of violence had badly stretched their resources. “The violence we have seen is simply inexcusable,” police Commander Christine Jones said. “Ordinary people have had their lives turned upside down by this mindless thuggery.”

Violence is definitely crazy and unnecessary, but what did they have to say about the death of Mark Duggan?

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