Arrests mount as rioting continues around England
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
London, Aug 10, IRNA -- Violent disturbance have continued to erupt across the UK for a fourth successive night resulting in more than 1,350 arrests so far as police try to regain control of streets in several major cities.
More than 470 people were arrested overnight Tuesday as rioting spread from London to such cities as Manchester in north-west England, Birmingham, Nottingham and Leicester in the Midlands and Bristol in the south-west.
London's Metropolitan Police reported a quieter night in the capital after the number of officers on the ground was increased from 6,000 to 16,000, but still carried out 81 arrests, bringing the total in London to 768 since Saturday night, including 167 charged.
Manchester, Birmingham and Nottingham bore the brunt of the latest rioting and looting overnight, but there was also disturbances in Liverpool, Salford, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton, Bristol and Gloucester.
The eruption of the worst riots in England within living memory as led to much soul searching, with left-wing Labour MP John McDonnell warning that the only way to resolve the issue was to address the inequalities in British society.
“We are reaping what has been sown over the last three decades of creating a grotesquely unequal society with an ethos of grab as much as you can by any means,” McDonnell said.
It had become “a society of looters created with MPs and their expenses, bankers and their bonuses, tax-evading corporations, hacking journalists, bribe-taking police officers, and now a group of alienated kids are seizing their chance,” he said in a letter to the Guardian Wednesday.
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