Tensions behind London unrest revealed

‘Policemen don’t think we are human’ - youngsters:

UK: Rioting has again erupted on the streets of Tottenham almost 26 years after the Broadwater Farm riot. But what lies beneath the latest violent outburst in this chequered corner of north London? The majority of people trying to digest the scene of destruction along Tottenham’s cordoned-off High Road on Sunday morning looked genuinely baffled.

Some were trying to get to church, others were still trying to get home from night shifts or nights out, and nearly all stood staring in disbelief at their disfigured high street. With smoke from smouldering shops still visible overhead, residents stood in fragments of glass and bricks before burnt-out police cars and shops now razed to the ground.

The unrest hours earlier followed the fatal shooting by police of 29-year-old Mark Duggan last week, and a protest march to a High Road police station on Saturday evening in which they demanded “justice”.

“I think this is inhuman, it’s never meant to get to this extent... it’s absolutely out of scale with what’s happened here,” said 23-year-old Richard Tawiah.

BBC News