{"id":12658,"date":"2011-08-09T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T20:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=12658"},"modified":"2011-08-09T23:56:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T22:56:38","slug":"the-london-riots-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/08\/09\/the-london-riots-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The London Riots of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the last few days London<\/a> has been ravaged by severe riots<\/a> which have unleashed carnage on the UK’s capital city.<\/p>\n

I write this as someone from the South East<\/a> who has worked in and around the city for years and I still regularly commute there for work.<\/p>\n

It is a city where I’ve seen films<\/a> since I was a young boy, worked with friends and colleagues in radio and I was in North London on Saturday night when I first got an inkling that something was wrong.<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a> lit up with reports of violence<\/a> in Tottenham, initially triggered by the earlier death of a 29 year old man<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since then it has escalated at an almost unbelievable rate as packs of looters have spread around London and other parts of the UK.<\/p>\n

Although there have been riots before in the 1980s<\/a>, the scale of this is truly something else.<\/p>\n

For anyone outside the UK, who wants to know more about why parts of a modern Western nation have come to resemble a war zone<\/a> check out the Wikipedia entry for the London Riots 2011<\/a> – it isn’t perfect, but is a good introduction.<\/p>\n

In time there will be consequences for what has happened as the public, politicians and media debate the causes of what has gone on.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of media available on the web, both social and traditional, so I thought I’d include some here in order to try and make sense of what’s gone on and to function as a running archive for what is still a developing story.<\/p>\n

There is this Google Map<\/a> which shows the scale of violent incidents across London and the UK on August 8th:<\/p>\n