Tottenham riot: eight police in hospital as night of violence follows fatal shooting
7th August 2011
Patrol cars, a double-decker bus and shops were set alight after a crowd of more than 300 people clashed with officers near Tottenham police station.
Missiles, including Molotov cocktails, fireworks, rocks and fire extinguishers, were thrown at the police. Scotland Yard said at least one of the officers had suffered head injuries.
Jeez, you’d think it was Los Angeles or something.
On Friday, it emerged that Mr Duggan had been travelling in a minicab and was gunned down after an apparent exchange of fire.
A police officer’s radio was found to have a bullet lodged in it afterwards, suggesting they may have narrowly escaped being struck.
Officers had been attempting to carry out an arrest under the Trident operational command unit, which deals with gun crime in the black community, according to the IPCC.
So this was basically a race riot (which is plain if you can find an article with pictures, although the media won’t dare point that out) after some gangbanger got into a shootout with police. Maybe it is Los Angeles after all.
But you have to get down to the end of the report to find out the essentials of the story, which in the days of Real Journalism would have been in the first paragraph.