Last nights violence erupted after members of the community took to the streets to demand ‘justice’, after Mark Duggan, 29, was shot dead by police on Thursday.  One resident told the BBC that the violence started after a 16-year-old girl who tried to talk to the police was hit with batons.

Mr Duggan was shot by officers from the Metropolitan Police’s CO19 unit on Thursday evening after the minicab he was travelling in was stopped. There was an apparent ‘exchange’ of fire and a bullet was found lodged in a police radio. Mr Duggan died at the scene and an officer was injured, but left hospital after treatment.

The family of Mr.Duggan went to the police station to get answers and claimed they were continuously fobbed off…..Apparently the response from the police was “No answers I was not there”.

The current News reports

• Twenty-six police officers hurt in clashes, with eight treated in hospital

  
  

• 42 arrests in connection with the trouble

  
  

• Tottenham MP David Lammy appeals for calm and warns that there may be fatalities
  

  
  

• Mob of 500 people protest about death of father-of-four Mark Duggan who was shot by officers

  
  

• 100 riot police on the streets as Tottenham burns

  
  

• Fears that violence was fanned by Twitter as picture of burning police car was re-tweeted more than 100 times

  
  

• Shop looted and youths storm McDonald’s and start cooking their own food

  
  

• Mail on Sunday photographers beaten and mugged by masked thugs

  
  

• NO FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHOOTING OF MARK DUGGAN

So now all the media attention is focussed on reporting the violence of the event! No one has mentioned anything about what ‘really’ happened to Mark Duggan! I do not condone the violence that happened and its not right to destroy businesses and people’s livelihood. However, I cant help thinking was the  rioting the last refuge of the disenfranchised?

What the people said: