London Riots 2011: Protesters Use BlackBerry Messenger; Hackers Back Them

Release Date 10 Aug, 2011 in ABC News

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London riots: Boris Johnson calls for police cuts rethink Telegraph.co.uk - James Orr - 10 Aug, 2011 Boris Johnson today called on the Government to reconsider its plans to reduce police numbers following widespread rioting across the country. By James Orr The London Mayor claimed ministers should take “another look” at proposals to cut force budgets, ...
	Boris: This Is No Time To Cut Police Jobs Sky News - 10 Aug, 2011 Boris Johnson has directly criticised Government policy by calling for plans to reduce police numbers to be reconsidered in the wake of the disturbances in UK towns and cities. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the Conservative Mayor of London ...
	Boris Johnson calls for police cuts to be scrapped after riots The Guardian - Andrew Sparrow - 10 Aug, 2011 Boris Johnson talks to residents of Clapham Junction after the area was hit by rioting. Photograph: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP The London mayor, Boris Johnson, has urged David Cameron to abandon the government's plans for substantial police cuts in the wake ...
	London riots 2011: Man beaten in Ealing fighting for life but no one knows who ... Daily Mail - Tom Kelly, Rebecca Camber - 10 Aug, 2011 A man left in a life-threatening condition after bravely remonstrating with rioters has not been identified - because the thugs who attacked him fled with his wallet and phone. Hopelessly outnumbered, a single police ...
	London riots: Ealing residents make stand against looters Telegraph.co.uk - Murray Wardrop, John-Paul Ford Rojas - 10 Aug, 2011 Residents in Ealing last night vowed to take matters into their own hands and defend their community after rioters left a trail of destruction across the west London borough. By Murray Wardrop, John-Paul Ford Rojas and Stephen Adams Stiffened in their ...
London to put 16000 officers on patrol to stop rioting Detroit Free Press - 10 Aug, 2011 London Mayor Boris Johnson talks with Police Superintendent Jo Oakley on Tuesday near burned Reeves Corner furniture store in the suburb of Croydon. Emergency crews have been cleaning up after rioting. / PETER MACDIARMID/Getty Images BY JILL LAWLESS ...
Rioters leave man fighting for his life after he stands up to violence and ... Scottish Daily Record - Mark McGivern - 10 Aug, 2011 A HERO who stood up to rampaging thugs who torched wheelie bins was last night fighting for his life as England reeled during a fourth night of rioting. The middle-aged man - who tried to put out a blaze outside a shop - was kicked and punched by the ...
	London riots: middle-aged man fights for life after being beaten for ... Telegraph.co.uk - Mark Hughes, Stephen Adams - 10 Aug, 2011 Next to a burning rubbish bin, a middle-aged man lies critically ill after he was beaten unconscious and robbed for rebuking a gang of rioting youths who started the fire. By Mark Hughes, Stephen Adams and John-Paul Ford Rojas The attack was witnessed ...
	London riots: Close-knit neighbourhoods rally for their own defence Telegraph.co.uk - Martin Beckford, James Hall - 10 Aug, 2011 A human barricade protected shops and homes in Clapham Junction in one of a number of incidents as residents and workers in the capital were forced to defend themselves. By Martin Beckford, James Hall, Christopher Williams and David Millward Locals in ...
	Good Samaritan fighting for life The Sun - Vince Soodin, David Willetts - 10 Aug, 2011 A RIOT victim was fighting for life last night after yobs attacked him for trying to stop a blaze they started that threatened homes. The unnamed man, in his forties or early fifties, was scared the ...
	London Mayor heckled NDTV.com - 10 Aug, 2011 AP, Updated: August 10, 2011 08:15 IST London: London Mayor Boris Johnson was confronted by angry locals during a visit to Clapham in south London, one of the areas badly hit by Tuesday's violence and looting. Johnson was bombarded with questions about ...
Youths answer Twitter call-out for riot clean-up TVNZ - 10 Aug, 2011 Images of youths looting, fire-ravaged buildings and smashed windows are being replaced by pictures of volunteers with brooms and rubbish bags. Hundreds of young Londoners have taken to the streets to clean up the destruction caused by rioters. ...
Yes it was bad but this is no Blitz Sydney Morning Herald - Tom Sturrock - 10 Aug, 2011 Let's not call it anything other than what it is - criminal opportunism, says this Australian who witnessed the violent behaviour first hand. In London, a city of more than 8 million people, the comfortable middle-class lives alongside the very poor, ...
	'The police can do nothing �" we need the army on the streets' Herald Scotland - Kate Devlin - 10 Aug, 2011 DEVASTATION: Londoners were left to count the cost of the riots with Reeves Corner furniture store in Croydon destroyed by fire and many other businesses ransacked. Picture: Getty “THIS will not stop until someone dies �" and perhaps not even then,” ...
London riot photos: Misinformation (and truth) spreading through social media ... Washington Post (blog) - Katie Rogers - 10 Aug, 2011 Firemen work in the area of Clapham in London on Tuesday in the aftermath of the riots. (ELIZABETH DALZIEL/ASSOCIATED PRESS) As images published by eyewitnesses to the London riots over the past three days continue to reach the Internet ...
	London calling? Not to us, not any more Sydney Morning Herald (blog) - 10 Aug, 2011 London's not the safe haven it once was. The place has got issues - a class divide and a social restlessness that has changed the face of the city. Photo: Reuters London's burning. You'd have to be hiding under some sort of cyber rock not to know that. ...
Rioters 'should not be allowed to take over' Toronto Star - Elizabeth Dalziel - 10 Aug, 2011 Neighbors and volunteers help clean up the area of Clapham in the aftermath left by riots in London Tuesday, August 9, 2011. Britons swept up, patched up and feared further violence Tuesday, demanding police do more to protect them after three nights ...
When Ealing Burned: A Dispatch from the London Riots TIME - Thomas K. Grose - 10 Aug, 2011 The police called the pub at 8:30 pm on Monday, Aug. 8, with a warning, telling the manager of the Grove to close up. Two hours later, says the manager, who declined to be named, "it was pure bedlam. ...
British man battered senseless for confronting thugs Vancouver Sun - Mark Hughes - 10 Aug, 2011 LONDON - A middle-aged man was beaten unconscious and robbed for rebuking a gang of rioting, looting youths who started a fire in a rubbish bin in Ealing, west London. The attack was witnessed by a ...
	Three cheers for Sky's intrepid reporter Mark Stone Daily Mail - Ephraim Hardcastle - 10 Aug, 2011 Compared with its rivals at Sky News, wasn't BBC News' coverage of Monday night's riots lacklustre? While most of its reports were restricted to a helicopter shot of fires in Croydon, Sky reporter Mark Stone's confrontation with ...
Middle class residents of London have turned out to clean up their streets ... The Australian - Rosemary Bennett, Kaya Burgess - 10 Aug, 2011 London residents wait to be allowed through a police cordon to help council workers with the clean up after the rioting that took place outside Clapham Junction railway station. Source: AP ARMED with brooms, brushes and rubber gloves, London's defiant ...
'If the police can't protect us, we'll protect ourselves' Irish Times - Stephen Mangan - 10 Aug, 2011 EALING/LEWISHAM: POLICE AND businesses in London prepared for a fourth night of unrest last night as widespread violence spread from north, to east, west and south. Ger Donaghy, originally from Antrim, watched from his home above retail outlets on ...
A nation on the edge Stuff.co.nz - 10 Aug, 2011 For three nights we watched the events across London unfolding on TV and wondered: is our neighbourhood the next target? Last night it was. We've listened to the constant wail of police sirens and helicopters around our area, but until Tuesday morning ...
	Londoner thinks fondly of Joburg Times LIVE - Deon Wiggett - 10 Aug, 2011 A street cleaner sweeps up around a smouldering van set alight during riots in Hackney in London . Even in a normal August, London has a quite surreal quality. Half the city is on holiday, the newspapers are ...
The night that rioters ruled and police lost control of the streets of London The Independent - Tom Peck, Kevin Rawlinson - 10 Aug, 2011 After two nights of violence, the capital was braced for more on Monday �" but not on the scale that transpired. Cahal Milmo recounts the extraordinary events The mob that showed no mercy: A video uploaded to YouTube last night shows a young boy who is ...
Where have you been, ask shopkeepers as Boris joins clean-up The Independent - Oliver Wright - 10 Aug, 2011 As he fought to be heard, there were cries of 'How was your holiday?' and 'Why are you here three days late?' By Oliver Wright Boris Johnson faced furious heckling from residents clearing up wrecked parts of south London as he returned from holiday to ...
London's ugly underbelly Toronto Star - Matt Dunham - 10 Aug, 2011 Brigade of volunteers Tuesday queues to help cleanup in wake of rioting in London's Clapham Junction. On Tuesday, newspapers in Britain published a haunting photograph: a woman flinging herself from a burning building into the arms of riot police below ...
After worst riots in a generation, proud Britons reaffirm faith in lawful society Globe and Mail - 10 Aug, 2011 The British are proud of their reputation for refusing to bow down before adversity, a spirit that has brought them through the Blitz, the race riots of the early 1980s, and the terrorist bombings of July 7, 2005. And now, the worst riots in a ...
London 'broom people' rally against rioters Ninemsn - 10 Aug, 2011 By ninemsn staff A photo taken during a London riots clean-up inspired by Twitter has been viewed more than 100000 times all over the world. The image of an army of locals, brooms raised in the air, has become a powerful symbol of how Londoners are ...
Night police lost control of London Telegraph.co.uk - Tim Ross, Heidi Blake - 10 Aug, 2011 Shortly after 9pm on Monday night, as daylight bled from the sky, the police finally lost control of London. A gang of boys and girls, most no older than 15, and some apparently as young as eight, broke into a row of shops in Bethnal Green, ...