London Riots 2011: Tottenham Sorts Through The Wreckage (PHOTOS)

London residents woke this morning to the aftermath of the city's worst riots in years.

Protestors in the Tottenham neighborhood, enraged by the death of Mark Duggan, who was killed by police on Thursday, set cars and buildings aflame, looted storefronts and caused chaos in the streets, resulting in at least eight police officers being hospitalized.

As crews began sorting through the damage, Police Federation chair Paul McKeever was still searching for answers.

“Our thoughts are with the officers that have been injured," McKeever toll HuffPost. "It seems as though we’re in a position in the police service today where we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t."

Click on the slideshow below for a look at London's night in flames and the wreckage that followed.

Comments

[Spartacus1]

03:26 PM on 08/11/2011

These riots are just another greedy mob of leftist terrorists looting like drunken monkeys from society's producers while blaming others for the destruction they cause. Why is this news? Its happening every day in the U.K. and here in the States. Maybe its because in this case the looting thugs have no pretense of being "community organizers" and "public employee unions". Is that it?

[ToniWal]

11:18 AM on 08/11/2011

This looks like the Great Fire of London in the 1600s! My God, I've visited London and the surrounding places, but never EVER seen anything like this!

[intellectualTradition]

06:48 PM on 08/10/2011

what happens when you let them in.

[jimall3]

06:03 PM on 08/10/2011

Look at all the photos posted all over the internet on various different sites (not just the HuffPost). There are plenty of WHITE East end working class men participating in these riots. England has a class or caste system similar to that of India. WHITES from the wrong side of the tracks are discriminated against and live in ghettos called "the East End."

American whites don't get this apparently. Non-Whites are a small minority and are almost all abused and intimidated by the native white population. London is not like an American city. It is controlled by the native white population and they make no apologies. I am not even saying it should be otherwise I am merely stating that there is no similarity between the Los Angeles riots and these riots. Very different histories and variables here.

Trust me the "white" population does not feel threatened. This IS a WAR of Class between poor whites and rich whites. Immigrant populations are a side issue.

[Randy Mann]

03:08 PM on 08/10/2011

I thought it was only here in the US. Must be in the DNA?

[The Dude67]

09:56 AM on 08/10/2011

Yet another steel and concrete building completely gutted by fire... yet no hint of a collapse.

[Dorian Bennett]

06:57 PM on 08/09/2011

Who knew that London could ever be this violent?

[Spartacus1]

03:28 PM on 08/11/2011

Apparently, you don't know the history of England.

[peabody523]

04:17 PM on 08/09/2011

It's a shame. May have started out as an angry protest of injustice, but it was usurped by another element with another agenda. As history has taught us (Ghandi, civil rights, the Viet Nam War...), the only way to correct an injustice is persistent, peaceful demonstration. They harm themselves, their neighbors, their home and their ability to get justice by this. And they help those who wish to disenfranchise them.

[ndemilo]

01:50 PM on 08/09/2011

look at that - those spoiled rich white kids rioting like that. it's 'turrable'!

[KYZipster]

09:58 PM on 08/08/2011

As soon as enough millions get their cable TV turned off for non payment and the Fox News brainwashing wears off, we could be next.

[Susan Shaffer]

08:42 PM on 08/08/2011

business is down
there is unemployment
a few people start to riot
and then a few cunning people do an insurance job

[wincek101]

03:21 PM on 08/09/2011

sure....there would be very few for whom this would be true but most who lost their homes and possessions would not have had the money for insurance PLUS be able to wait the several years for the policies to be redeemed...could you??

[Susan Shaffer]

11:25 PM on 08/09/2011

indeed you are right
the latest news I saw stated that there were many asian and african shop owners whose livelihoods have been destroyed, were uninsured and have to restart their lives.
very very tragic.

[Larry Scantand]

06:35 PM on 08/08/2011

This will be the scene in every major city in America if the Republicans and "T"errorist Party continue to ignore what Americans want.

They are pushing Americans to fight for their lives, their food, their jobs, and all the while collecting big salaries and kick backs to do nothing for the American people.

Don't be fooled... they do not want America to suceed. They want it to fail.

[bpd9227]

11:27 PM on 08/08/2011

LOL. You people are so amusing with all your silly demagoguery.

[Larry Scantand]

08:54 AM on 08/09/2011

Well when you have the HAVES and they are controlling the HAVE NOTS.... the HAVE NOTS will not stay down long... without revolt.

[wincek101]

03:24 PM on 08/09/2011

hmm-m-m sounds like that was overheard in Paris boardrooms c 1789

[KentJenkins]

09:14 AM on 08/09/2011

Amen Brother, you nailed it.

[netzwerg]

05:21 PM on 08/08/2011

Ranking riot photos is kind of weird.

[Aj Beamish]

11:38 PM on 08/08/2011

I was thinking the same thing. Really weird.

[jimall3]

04:11 PM on 08/08/2011

Europe should stop assaulting Libya and killing thousands of Libyan Muslim Civilians in its New Colonial Holy WAR push (pretending its humanitarian of course) AND Start FOCUSING on its OWN PROBLEMS (Riots, Financial meltdowns, now jobs, racist mass murders, etc etc etc).

[Josh Steinhauer]

04:19 AM on 08/09/2011

Yeah so because of their involvement in Libya you think it's perfectly fine for young Muslim men to riot and start burning London in response. The UK took these Muslims in and they didn't have to but they did. If things are so bad in the UK then go back to the Middle East and stop killing and burning Europe.

[bbrecht]

10:35 PM on 08/09/2011

Take your hatred elsewhere, bigots.

[jimall3]

11:13 PM on 08/09/2011

Josh are you mentally challenged or an Israeli maybe? Muslims are not rioting, native white christian Brits are rioting. Stop defaming Muslims.

[snowmanjny]

01:01 PM on 08/08/2011

I fear that the heat and ash of the fires will be on our door steps soon if we don't start replacing intolerance with compromise. USA we should try to learn from this.

[GustavoRejivik]

01:21 AM on 08/09/2011

I agree .. too many seem intolerant to any cuts!! Reduced projected spending isn't a cut .. it's us vs them ... the Feds will do anything to protect their power and their pensions ..

[bbrecht]

10:36 PM on 08/09/2011

Compromise? As in allowing them to cut social security, education, medicare?