Vikram Dodd and Caroline Davies The Guardian, Tuesday 9 August 2011
• Full-scale alert as violence spreads across capital
• Disorder breaks out in Birmingham city centre
• Prime minister, mayor and home secretary return
1 The prime minister cut short his holiday and flew back to Britain as London witnessed devastating scenes of violence stretching the emergency services beyond limit on a third night of rioting in the capital.
2 Buildings were torched, shops ransacked, and officers attacked with makeshift missiles and petrol bombs as gangs of hooded and masked youths laid waste to streets right across the city. The sheer number of incidents – including in Hackney, Croydon, Peckham, Lewisham, Clapham and …show more content…
“There is no-way anyone could have guessed that something so horrible would have taken place.”
Answer the question below, in your own words.
1. Explain the scene in London as described in paragraph 2 of the article.
2. Read paragraph 4 and explain what the cause of the riot throughout England was?
3. In paragraph 5, describe what the men and women did in Hackney's Pembury Estate and why?
4. In paragraph 8 what were the police having a problem with?
5. What did Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh vow to do and what action did he condemn?
6. Name the three key stores in Brixton that were looted, explain what was stolen? And define the following term “to go on the rob."
7. In the last paragraph what did Rachel Cerfontyne say the dead man’s family’s main concern was?
8. In your opinion do you think this riot could have been avoided? Explain?
9. What is your personal opinion about the riot that took place in England this past summer?
10. Can you see something like this happening in the Czech Republic? Or has something like this ever happen here?
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