London Unrest – Several hurt after Tottenham fighting

About 40 people have been detained after uprising saw police assaulted, buildings robed and motor vehicles set on fire in Tottenham, north London.

Twenty-six officials and three further were injured in the fighting which broken out after a protest over the severe shooting by police of Mark Duggan on Thursday.

Residents reviewed the loss after homes were looted and shops burnt down.

Tottenham MP David Lammy said: "A society that was already harming has had its heart ripped out."

The Metropolitan Police said all the officials had now left hospital.

The people detained remain in custody for offences counting violent disorder and theft.

There were reports in the society that a teenage girl who was part of the peaceful demonstrates had been in a kind of quarrel with police.

He said: "That shows to be the focal point. That was the instant at around about just after eight o'clock when it looked that components in the mass decided to pick on two police cars. They were then set on fire."

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is inquiring Thursday's gunfire.

A police officer was also gunfire in the incident, which occurred in what was called a "pre-planned" event, under Operation Trident, which prosecutes gun crime in the African and Caribbean communities. Police had blocked a minicab which Mr. Duggan had been travelling in.

On Saturday night, shops and homes were assaulted and cash machines ripped out in Tottenham. There were also burglaries from shops in nearby Wood Green.

London Fire Brigade said it had attended 49 fires in the area.

Labour MP Mr. Lammy said: "This is an assault on Tottenham, on people, shopkeepers, women, children, now standing without a roof.

"I'm anxious that what was a peaceful procedure changed into this.

"And that it looked to go on for several hours before we saw the kind of policing that I consider is suitable.

"And I think small fighting primarily should have been blocked far faster."

During the unrest, which blown up about 20:20 BST, people threw petrol bombs, dropping many buildings and vehicles to burn wrecks.

A double-decker bus, two police cars, and a carpet shop were amid the buildings and vehicles ruined.

Groups of burglars damaged shop windows in a retail park near Tottenham Hale tube station.

The front window of Currys electrical store was ruined, and the door of Argos was also crushed, with broken glass covering the floor inside and out after burglars in fact attached the stock room.

Every handset was stolen from a mobile phone store.

Home Secretary Theresa May criticized the fighting saying: "Such disrespect for public protection and property will not be tolerated and the Metropolitan Police have my full cooperation in re-establishing order."

Met Commander Adrian Hanstock said: "A peaceful protest was hijacked by mindless hooligans. We couldn't have probably that size of aggression."

But an 18-year-old man, who did not want to give his name, voiced an emotion he said was shared by several, saying: "Police recognize what they should have made; they should have come to speak to the people themselves. They don't heed."

A Downing Street spokesman called the unrest "totally intolerable".

Kit Malthouse, London's deputy mayor said: "It's completely shocking to see it on the streets of London. We'll do as much as we can to make sure there's no repetition tonight."

Young guys and adults were said to have turned up in cars to Tottenham's retail park and filled their boots with stolen items, unchecked by police.

Others indoors on foot and piled shopping trolleys high with looted electronic commodities, a local woman, who did not desire to be named, said.

Another local resident told that prowling had carry on beyond daybreak on Sunday.

In the mean time, shops counting Vision Express, the Body Shop and Boots, in nearby Wood Green's High Street were also attacked. Two cars there were also set on fire.

Since mutiny in 1985, relations between the local people and police had been overall good, but last week's gun firing of Mr. Duggan enhanced strains.

A friend of Mr. Duggan, who gave her name as Niki, 53, said those who had attached Saturday's demonstration, which started with a march from Broadwater Farm area, wanted "Integrity for the family".