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Hye Rin Bae

UK riots 2011: London police should learn from those in Manchester | Mail Online - 0 views

  • In London the police have been adopting the modern, sophisticated approach of observing while criminals loot and riot.
  • In Manchester they have generally chosen the more old fashioned approach of arresting those involved.
  • In Birmingham the probability of a rioter ending up in a police cell would seem to be quite a bit higher than in the capital. In Nottingham and Wolverhampton the message is credible that the police will come and arrest anyone involved in rioting.
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  • Waiting until after the event and relying on CCTV is not enough. Yet that was the policy of the Metropolitan Police until last night.
  • surveillance
  • perpetrators
  • subsequently
  • Everything possible should be done to stop the damage taking place - not just wait until it as been done before acting.
  • funking
Kyu Won Shim

Britain Turns to Reckoning With Rioters as Cameron Faces Parliament - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Thursday that over 1,200 people had been arrested, the bulk of them in London.
  • Britain’s second-largest city, where the police and political leaders worried about a potentially explosive new pattern of interracial violence that could be set off by the past days and nights of mayhem
  • Three young men of Pakistani descent were killed in Birmingham on Tuesday night when a car crashed into a group of residents who had gathered to protect local businesses from attack
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  • Meanwhile, politicians braced for the fallout from the convulsion of violence as Prime Minister David Cameron faced the most severe crisis of his 15 months in office.
  • While many Britons had initially blamed the violence on unemployed youth, however, one surprise was the presence of young men and women with regular jobs among the riot suspects lined up in police wagons outside courthouses in London and other cities
  • Ahead of the emergency House of Commons session on Thursday, Mr. Cameron declared a “fightback” against what he condemned as the “groups of thugs” who had driven the riots
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    The riot in Britain is getting more serious, and a lot of people were injured or died.
Giang V

BBC - Newsbeat - Name registration delays Amy Winehouse foundation - 0 views

  • Name registration delays Amy Winehouse foundation
  • Amy Winehouse's father Mitch has said his plans to launch a foundation in his daughter's name have been delayed.
  • 'The Amy Winehouse Foundation' has been registered by someone else.
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  • don't know what to do with them at the moment."
  • donations
  • "hold off" on his plans "for the time being".
  • "The plan is to help all children - not just rehabilitation, not just substance abuse. It's to help all children in need."
  • Amy's father had announced his plans to set up a foundation in his daughter's name at the singer's funeral in London on 27 July.
  • He added that the 27-year-old had "conquered" her drug addiction before her death but had been "trying hard to deal with her drinking".
  • inquest
  • adjourned
  • toxicology
  • She was found dead at her home in north London on 24 July.
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