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Riots break out in London Looting and arson run rampant as riots spread throughout London and extend to other major cities after a 29-year-old man was killed by police.
Aug. 13, 2011
A Kurdish man takes part in an anti-riot march from Dalston to Tottenham Green in northeast London. Britain needs to tackle deep-seated social problems following riots and looting in English cities this week, the center-right government said on Saturday, and a U.S. street-crime expert it has brought in said arrests alone would not solve the problem.
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Aug. 13, 2011
Photographers take pictures of a prison van leaving the City of Westminster Magistrates Court in London. Courts continue to process hundreds of looters and rioters that have been arrested since the recent riots that rocked the city.
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Aug. 12, 2011
Activists of Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) light candles in front of victim pictures of London riots during a memorial ceremony in Multan. Riots in England claimed a fifth life with the death of a pensioner who confronted looters in the worst unrest for decades.
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Aug. 12, 2011
A man looks through items of footwear donated by the public for the victims of the recent riots and looting. British Prime Minister David Cameron says the riots, which have scarred England, were motivated by pure criminality, but opposition politicians and academics say the riots also point to social deprivation.
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Aug. 12, 2011
A story is read for children in a makeshift nursery in east London's Tottenham Green leisure center, which has been used to support victims of the recent riots and looting.
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Aug. 12, 2011
A worker arranges items of donated clothing for the victims of the recent riots and looting.
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Aug. 12, 2011
Men look at a Greater Manchester Police advertising board displaying images of people suspected of committing crimes during the recent riots in Manchester, northern England. Police prepared to flood the streets on Friday to ensure that weekend drinking does not reignite the rioting that swept London and other cities this week, shocking Britons and sullying their country's image a year before it hosts the Olympics.
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Aug. 12, 2011
Mario Quiassaca, 18, is taken from City of Westminster Magistrates' court after pleading guilty to one count of violent disorder and one count of burglary during the recent riots in London.
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Aug. 12, 2011
Police officers raid a property in Pimlico, London. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is under growing pressure to abandon plans to cut police funding, part of the government's austerity drive, after the worst looting and rioting in decades hit cities across England.
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Aug. 12, 2011
Police officers lead a man away following a raid on a property in London.
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Aug. 11, 2011
A group of youths walk past a sign where Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old father of four, was gunned down by police in disputed circumstances a week ago in Tottenham, north London. Britain's riots began Saturday when an initially peaceful protest over a police shooting in north London turned violent. That clash triggered wider lawlessness that police struggled to halt. Across London, and then in cities throughout England, rioters set stores on fire and looted shops for sneakers, bicycles, electronics and leather goods.
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Aug. 11, 2011
People pray for unity in the community near the scene where Mark Duggan was gunned down by police in disputed circumstances a week ago in Tottenham, north London.
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Aug. 11, 2011
People pray for unity in the community in Tottenham, north London.
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Aug. 11, 2011
A woman lays flowers at the scene where a man was killed in the riots in Ealing, England. Richard Mannington Bowes, 68, was attacked when he tried to put out a fire near the Arcadia shopping center during the riots on Monday and died Thursday night from the injuries he incurred. A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
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Aug. 11, 2011
David O'Neil, 22, attempts to avoid the waiting media as he runs from City of Westminster Magistrates' Court after he was released on bail on charges relating to the London riots.
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Aug. 11, 2011
British Metropolitan Police raid the homes of looters and those accused of causing violent disorder amid the civil disturbances in London. The riots, which tore through London and other major English cities for four days, had nothing to do with politics or protest but were motivated by theft, British Prime Minister David Cameron said.
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Aug. 11, 2011
Metropolitan Police officers prepare to carry out a raid on a property on the Churchill Gardens estate in London during an operation where police hope to recover property stolen in the recent riots in the capital. Prime Minister David Cameron says the U.K. is "acting decisively" to restore order after riots shocked the country. Cameron told lawmakers, "we will not allow a culture of fear to exist on our streets."
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Aug. 11, 2011
Stolen goods are recovered by Metropolitan Police officers after carrying out a raid on a property on the Churchill Gardens estate in London during an operation to recover property stolen during the recent disturbances.
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Aug. 11, 2011
Metropolitan Police officers arrest a suspect, center, after carrying out a raid on a property on the Churchill Gardens estate in London.
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Aug. 11, 2011
British Prime Minister David Cameron addresses an emergency session of Parliament. The riots that tore through London and other major English cities for four days had nothing to do with politics or protest but were motivated by theft, Cameron said.
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Aug. 11, 2011
Members of the community lay flowers at the scene of a hit-and-run following civil disturbances in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, England. Police are continuing investigations after three people — reportedly trying to protect shops from rioting and looting in Dudley Road — were struck by a car.
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Aug. 10, 2011
Riot police hold shields in front of Welsh police vans in London. A large group of local men gathered in the area to deter looters and a large number of police officers was also present to prevent any vigilante actions.
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Aug. 10, 2011
Police officers detain a man in Eltham, south London.
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Aug. 10, 2011
Women pass boarded-up shops in Ealing, west London. Prime Minister David Cameron said "a fightback is underway" to restore law and order to Britain's streets despite rioting, looting and arson by gangs of youths spreading from London to other cities.
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Aug. 10, 2011
London Mayor Boris Johnson meets local residents in Tottenham after the area was affected by the recent riots.
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Aug. 10, 2011
A sign urging Londoner's to be nice to each other stands near an underground station in north London following a fourth night of violence in Britain.
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Aug. 10, 2011
A worker guards the charred remains of the Reeves furniture shop in Croydon, south London, following riots.
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Aug. 10, 2011
Azim Mohamed, left, the owner of a cutlery hire company, and assistant Riaz Mohamed look at the charred remains of their business after it was set ablaze following disturbances in north London.
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Aug. 10, 2011
Prime Minister David Cameron is shown the West Midlands Police Events Control Suite by Chief Constable Chris Sims and Assistant Chief Constable Sharon Rowe following another night of rioting in Birmingham, England.
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Aug. 10, 2011
A woman paints a message on a boarded up shop in Ealing, west London.
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Aug. 10, 2011
Merseyside Police officers help clean up a burned out caravan in the Toxteth area of Liverpool, England, following rioting in the area. Thousands of extra police officers flooded into London in a bid to end Britain's worst rioting in a generation. Unrest spread across England on a fourth night of violence driven by crowds of young people.
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Aug. 10, 2011
Police forensic officers work at the scene where three people were killed after being struck by a vehicle in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, England.
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Aug. 10, 2011
Firemen continue to douse charred remains of properties and businesses in Croydon, south London. As masked youths burned down a fashion store and clashed with police in Manchester, residents of Britain's third largest city blamed the government for failing to deal with social problems. Hundreds of youths tore through the city center in northwest England, looting and smashing shop windows as the worst riots in Britain for decades spread.
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Aug. 10, 2011
Windows are replaced on shop properties in London. After three nights of rioting and looting in and around London, the chaos has spread to other British cities.
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Aug. 10, 2011
People walk across a field toward a housing estate as they patrol Enfield, north London, in an effort to protect the community against looters. Defiant Londoners took to the streets in their hundreds to defend their communities against the looting and arson which have consumed the British capital for the past four days.
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Aug. 10, 2011
The window of a retail store was smashed in Manchester City Centre, following a fourth night of violence in Britain.
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Aug. 10, 2011
A forensic officer works at a crime scene, where three men were killed after being hit by a car in an incident some locals were linking to the violence in Birmingham.
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Aug. 10, 2011
Hundreds of messages of support from the community of Peckham have been posted on a looted storefront in south London.
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Aug. 9, 2011
Firefighters battle a large fire that broke out in shops and residential properties in Croydon in London.
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Aug. 9, 2011
Men angry about recent rioting and looting come out in Eltham to protect their properties.
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Aug. 9, 2011
Smoke billows from a Sony Centre warehouse in Enfield, north London.
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Aug. 9, 2011
Youths steal electrical goods from a store in Birmingham, England. Trouble continued on the streets of England's second city as well as in Manchester in north-west England following days of rioting in London.
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Aug. 9, 2011
A man clears up in a supermarket in Ealing in west London.
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Aug. 9, 2011
A rioter walks through a burning barricade in Liverpool, England. Violence flared in English cities and towns but London, where thousands of extra police had been deployed, was largely peaceful after three turbulent nights in which youths rampaged across the capital virtually unchecked.
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Aug. 9, 2011
Volunteers prepare to clean up after rioting at Clapham Junction.
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Aug. 9, 2011
People gather to clean up after rioting at Clapham Junction.
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Aug.9, 2011
British Prime Minister David Cameron talks to Acting Borough Commander Police Superintendent Jo Oakley in Croydon, where he saw damage to shops and residences carried out by rioters.
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Aug.9, 2011
British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to the media at 10 Downing Street.
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Aug. 9, 2011
Prime Minister Cameron will today hold crisis talks after three nights of riots, looting and arson by masked, hooded youths that wrecked shopping centers in many parts of London and spread to other cities.
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Aug. 9, 2011
Shopkeepers begin to clean up Ealing High Street in west London after another night of riots.
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Aug. 9, 2011
Volunteers form a circle hand-in-hand to show solidarity at the start of a cleanup rally in Hackney, east London.
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Aug. 9, 2011
Burned-out cars are removed from Ealing Green. Sporadic looting, arson and clashes with police spread outside London to Liverpool, Birmingham and Bristol.
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Aug. 9, 2011
A firefighter hoses down a furniture store that was set on fire by rioters in Croydon, south London.
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Aug. 9, 2011
The charred remains of a bus in Croydon, south London.
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Aug. 9, 2011
An opened safety deposit box sits discarded on a road in Croydon, south London.
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Aug. 9, 2011
A woman looks out from a looted supermarket in Ealing in west London.
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Aug. 9, 2011
A firefighter walks near the charred shell of Reeves Furniture store in Croydon, south London, following a third night of civil unrest.
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Aug. 9, 2011
Graffiti is seen on a burned-out car in east London neighborhood of Hackney.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A building burns as a riot police officer watches in Croydon in south London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A man cycles away as police officers sweep the area during clashes in Hackney.
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Aug. 8, 2011
In this image from amateur video, a gang of youths in Barking, East London surround Malaysian accountancy student Mohammed Asyraf Haziq, 20, who had been attacked and mugged in the street by an earlier group during rioting. As one of this group appeared to help Haziq to his feet others took the opportunity to open his backpack and remove other valuables. So shocking was the robbing of an injured man that Prime Minister David Cameron felt moved to describe it as a sign of a deeper societal malaise in Britain.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A youth kicks in the window of a jewelry store near the Bullring shopping center in Birmingham.
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Aug. 8, 2011
Police stand guard at the Mailbox shopping and hotel complex in Birmingham City Centre in England after three nights of rioting and looting in and around London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
Youths loot a store in Hackney in London. Pockets of rioting and looting continued to take place in various parts of London prompted by the initial rioting in Tottenham and then in Brixton Sunday night. Disturbances broke out late on Saturday night in Tottenham and the surrounding area after the killing of Mark Duggan, 29 and a father of four, by armed police in an attempted arrest.
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Aug. 8, 2011
Youths loot a Carhartt store in London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A man walks by a burning car outside a Carhartt store in London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A youth collects clothing looted from a Carhartt store as a car smolders.
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Aug. 8, 2011
Residents surveyed shattered streets on the Tottenham High Road after riots and looting erupted in an impoverished London neighborhood and hopscotched across the city that hosts next summer's Olympic Games.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A shopkeeper looks through a broken window of his store in Brixton following a second night of disturbances in London. Police said they had arrested 100 people in rioting, condemning it as "copycat" disorder following weekend unrest sparked by the death of a man in a police shooting. As violence which rocked the multi-ethnic northern district of Tottenham on Saturday spread to other districts of the capital, doubts emerged over the original version the shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, with suggestions that officers were not under attack when they opened fire.
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Aug. 8, 2011
Forensic officers work outside a Footlocker store in Brixton after looting in London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
The burned remains of a building in Tottenham after the rioting in London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
Windows are boarded up after looting in Brixton in London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A forensic officer walks through the Currys electrical store in Brixton after looting.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A jewelry store is damaged following a second night of disturbances in London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A police officer stands guard outside the fire-damaged Carpetright shop on Tottenham High Road in London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A man walks past a damaged shop window on Brixton High Street following riots in London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
DVDs are seen through a broken shop window on Brixton High in London.
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Aug. 8, 2011
A young woman is detained outside the Currys electrical store in London. Widespread rioting and looting took place across many parts of London in the early hours of Monday morning in a reaction to earlier rioting. Major disturbances broke out late Saturday in Tottenham and the surrounding area after the killing of Mark Duggan, 29 and a father of four, by police in an attempted arrest on Aug. 4.
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Aug. 7, 2011
A police officer stands guard near destroyed police cars in London after a demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent and cars and shops were set ablaze. One police officer was hospitalized and seven others were injured during riots after a suburb exploded in anger Saturday night following a gathering to protest the shooting by police of the 29-year-old.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Workers clean a looted shop at Tottenham Hale Retail Park in London.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Firefighters look at a destroyed building hosed down after rioting in London.
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Aug. 7, 2011
A police officer stands guard as firefighters continue to douse buildings that were set on fire during riots in Tottenham, London.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Police said the violence started when demonstrators set two police cars on fire with Molotov cocktails. Shown here are the remains of a burned squad car.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Residents watch from a sidewalk in Tottenham as a building burns.
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Aug. 7, 2011
A man looks into a burned-out car on Tottenham High Road. The riots were London's worst in years.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Chair frames are exposed in a burned-out police van on Tottenham High Road.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Aaron Biber, 89, assesses the damage to his hairdressing salon.
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Aug. 7, 2011
A firefighter walks past a burning building in Tottenham, where crowds attacked riot police and set fire to buildings and cars.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Police officers wearing riot gear walk past a burning building in the north London neighborhood of Tottenham.
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Aug. 7, 2011
A police officer watches as a fire rages through a building in Tottenham. The office of Prime Minister David Cameron denounced the violence as "utterly unacceptable."
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Aug. 7, 2011
Fire rages through a building in Tottenham. Tottenham has a history of troubled relations with police that community leaders and Scotland Yard have strived to overcome in recent decades.
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Aug. 6, 2011
Buildings burn on Tottenham High Road in London during the rioting.
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Aug. 7, 2011
A van burns as youths riot after a demonstration against the killing of a man by armed police in Tottenham.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Rioters face off with police officers on the streets of Tottenham.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Mounted police officers chase rioters on the streets in Tottenham.
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Aug. 7, 2011
A police officer in riot gear stands guard in Tottenham.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Protesters face off against riot police on Tottenham High Road.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Police officers wearing riot gear stand in a street in Tottenham during a violent protest.
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Aug. 7, 2011
A burned police car is seen on a street in Tottenham.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Police officers escort an injured man after arresting him in Tottenham.
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Aug. 7, 2011
Firefighters stand outside a shop set ablaze during riots in Tottenham.
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Aug. 6, 2011
A woman and her children walk through the debris left from the rioting in Tottenham.
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Aug. 7, 2011
A police van passes the remains of a double-decker bus set on fire in Tottenham.
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Aug. 7, 2011
A police officer sets up a cordon around a burned-out shop on Tottenham High Road.
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