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the police try to protect the banks – everything else is secondary … Oh look, BBC News is informing the rioters of tomorrows weather. … According to commercial on #skynews, all we need is someone to set out a table with some mozzarella on it… In 1992, a jury in California returned an upopular verdict. Two days later, the trouble hit downtown Atlanta. PG was working in the Healey Building that afternoon, and heard the helicopters overhead. There was a lot of soul searching, and people saying things needed to change. Today it is London. … Times headline:”Siege mentality grips a city that dare not show its colours”. It’s about #Tripoli, but could as well be about #londonriots … I’d call those who seem keen to own the #londonriots for their own agenda the real opportunists. Let’s get everyone safe and argue later… When you clock @Official_Tino with a kfc bargain bucket you know it’s nothing to do with #londonriots it’s just dinner time … What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? … Or does it explode? [Langston Hughes … INFO: Due to public order disturbances, trains are currently not stopping at Ealing Broadway. … Stop the dole. They’d soon run out of special brew to steal. … The headline at cnn.com is “Dow plunges 630 points”. The headline at the fishwrapper is “Grieving mom blasts judge’s sentence”. Foxnews reports “Bad Turns to Worse on Wall Street”… In other news, I like most people, have wildly uninformed opinions and am merely trying to rationalize all this. I am sad … despite what the news reports, #londonriots around me are not angry protests, but more like a party … These people are not rioters or protestors, they are knobheads using any old excuse to behave like uneducated animals … This is a new type of riot – social media, mainly looting, not racial – police, press & politicians struggling to comprehend … A dozen or so teens with faces covered just walked past my window casually discussing where to go & what they want to steal … Get to the cause of discontented youth and sort out the bloody stupid parents who let their kids go feral in the first place! … The ##londonriots IRC is an amusing mix of nice geeks and trolls, as far as I can see … Seriously Boris! Send out the water cannons. Hit the fires and the scumbags at the same time. Don’t make me come down there! … Mobs of yobs: a scarf across your face now allows you to have a lack of respect for your own community and human life?! … Coverage of the #londonriots non-existent in the US. @Guardian and @LBC973 are the places to go for real-time reports … This country is too soft. Get the army in there, give the police more power and hammer these scumbags with severe punishment … Heartbreaking. @Meera_Selva’s interview with a man outside his family business, burnt down after 144 years … To ask why they are rioting isn’t to condone the violence. Why is that so confusing to some? #londonriots …RT @mambutcher What’s left to express anger at economic inequality? Not the labour party. Not the unions. This is what happens. #londonriots … Shame that this is the city holding the #Olympics in less than a year. #londonriots … Shame that this is the city holding the #Olympics in less than a year … My bra is REALLY tight today. Sorry, Grrr riots. Back on track now … how low can you get, some idiots approached a injured guy lying on the ground and mugged him. how big of them. Just obnoxious … Why use horses? The poor things are only gonna get hurt! … I’ll give the police the same advice I give to lovers- use whatever force is necessary … WTF @channel4news reporting that Syrian news is branding #londonriots as an uprising against police brutality in the UK! … Feral rat boasting about his loot http://t.co/7VTCmmm Retweet & ridicule the loser. #londonriots cc @metpoliceuk @CO11MetPolice…mate if i get one more message containing a photo of you violating your cats arse with a fire poker whilest you give a thumps up to the camera I will have to report you… Rioting in Clitheroe due to shortage of Moet… Waterstone’s employee on the news: “We’ll stay open, if they steal some books they might learn something” … Can anyone help an elderly man who is stuck in our now locked pub wanting to get home no taxis in sight. Anyone?