London Riots

Many Londoners will agree that on Monday it felt awkward and eerie looking around and seeing the damage that was inflicted in only one-tops-two hours.
My bus was on diversion last Monday and I was forced to walk down the main road. There was always a lot of traffic but this time not a single car was to be seen apart from the Met cars.
There was a police officer standing on-guard roughly each three shops with each window having been smashed-in. Most of the shop alarms were still ringing.

It felt extremely awkward, especially because unlike the scenes from 28 Days Later (Pardon my exaggeration here), there were lots of people in the street at that time, almost as if things were normal.

For some pictures from the rioting in our street see: http://www.demotix.com/news/783018/riot-and-looting-walworth-road-london

The strange part? There's a police station only one street away from this, and you can see them coming in full force here in this video:

But by that time, the damage was done. So how did this come to pass? That's a question on many people's mind but I'm sure the politicians won't be answering that one. Cracking down with arrests are needed sure. But as long as the bigger picture remains left out then the tension that purveyed the entire drama will only cause more harm. And that bigger picture has much to do with London growing in two opposite directions, and the poorer burroughs slowly slipping further away.


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