Disturbances in Hackney, Lewisham and Peckham areas of London• Sign of trouble spreading beyond London to Birmingham• Mayor to interrupt holiday, after home secretary returns home earlyLIVE TEXT - http://www.guardian.co.uk/"Police vehicles and officers in helmets holding riot shields eventually blocked off access to Mare Street south of its pedestrianized Narrow Way section and the railway bridge, as buses backed up along adjoining Amhurst Road and a helicopter buzzed overhead.Reactions of onlookers varied from a man telling an officer moving a youth on to "get your hands off him, pig," to an afterschool club worker declaring to police that "these kids shouldn't be out here, they should be back in their yard," and saying that if she was in charge of dealing with rioters she'd "tear gas their asses". (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
Contrary to popular belief, rioting is not a sport.
