London Violence Is Calmed by Extra Police as Unrest Spreads
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A surge of police on the streets prevented a fourth night of unrest in London following Britain’s worst rioting since the 1980s as violence moved instead to northern cities including Manchester.
London’s Metropolitan Police put 16,000 officers on duty overnight, up from 6,000 the previous evening. A total of 770 people have been arrested in London since Aug. 6, when the unrest began in the suburb of Tottenham, after a local black man, Mark Duggan, was shot and killed by police who stopped his car intending to make an arrest. The violence has seen gasoline bombs thrown and vehicles, homes and businesses torched.