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Over the last week, riots have turned streets in some of England's | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
biggest cities into battlegrounds. Some of the people taking part have | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
been as young as 11 or 12. It has been a strange and in some places | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
very scary week. I have been reporting on the trouble for | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Newsround. Nothing seemed to have calmed down, I want to understand | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
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more about what has been going on, and why. -- now things seem to have | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
calmed down. Saturday on Tottenham in north | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
London, violence breaks out after a peaceful protest about a local man, | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Mark Duggan, being shot dead by police who were trying to arrest | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
him. It starts with throwing things at the police, and ends in | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
distraction. -- destruction. That is the biggest building to go up in | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
flames in Tottenham. It used to be a carpet showroom with flats on the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
top, and more than 20 families had to be rescued before the building | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
was completely destroyed. It still smells like a bonfire here. It is | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
already clear that this isn't about protesting. It is robbery and | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
vandalism. Over the next couple of days, the violence spreads to other | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
parts of London. Looters, many of them teenagers, some younger, | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
smashed shop windows and steel trainers and televisions. Let's get | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
some watches. It didn't stop at theft. The looters set fire to the | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
shops they had robbed. Londoners had not seen flames like these | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
since the Second World War. Over the next few days, London was | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
quieter, but other places were hit. Parts of Birmingham and Manchester | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
were the worst affected. There were outbreaks in Leeds, Liverpool, | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
Nottingham, Leicester, Gloucester and Bristol. Many of those involved | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
have been arrested. Nearly 1,000 in London, more than half of them | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
under 20 years old, and hundreds in other cities. The violence has left | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
people without businesses and homes. This man is now homeless. He and | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
his mum were in their flat when the shop below was set on fire, they | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
have lost everything. I don't understand why people do this. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
the past couple of days, we have shown you what the streets have | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
been looking like, but I want to show you the inside of a shop that | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
has been smashed up. This is a baby shop. Everything has been taken | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
down, everything has been smashed, the till desk was totally pulled | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
out and the shop is a complete tip. Some people have been heard, and | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
lots have been really frightened. There were helicopters going over | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
my house, I could hear a load of smashing noises on the cards. I was | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
getting quite scared. -- the cars. After the riots, the clean-up. You | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
might think there are troublemakers everywhere, but in reality, the | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
chaos has been caused by a tiny minority of people. Volunteers from | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
London to Manchester have been on the streets, helping to clean up | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
the mess, including these kids in Ealing in west London. We saw it on | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
the news, we wanted to help out. It is our home town here. I want to be | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
helpful. We shouldn't put it to the people that own the shops, we | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
should help as well, because there is loads of damage that has | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
happened. I went back to Tottenham where the trouble started. This | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
leisure centre has been converted into a base to help families whose | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
homes have burnt down. The donations keep coming. This is | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
where people who have lost their homes can come to pick up essential | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
supplies like bedding, clothes, food and even toys. How has it made | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
you feel, to see Tottenham going through this? I was very sad. They | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
don't deserve to lose their homes. Over nothing. Seeing these people | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
working together to help the victims of the riots made me wonder | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
why a few turn to violence. There have been serious riots in | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
Tottenham and other places before, in the 1980s. These were largely to | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
do with race. Black people in particular thought the police | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
treated them unfairly. Things have changed a lot since then. The | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
police make much more effort to talk to different communities, | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
though some people around here say they still don't trust them. This | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
time, the trouble across parts of England has involved people of all | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
races, and they are certainly not protesting against anything in | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
particular. Listen to these guys in Manchester, who didn't want to | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
appear on camera. Why are you going to miss the opportunity to get free | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
stuff? I am not bothered, I will keep doing this every day until I | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
get caught. Nothing is going to get happened to me, I won't get | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
grounded, I might get shouted at but that is it. The fact that so | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
much of the draw has been pointless vandalism means most politicians | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
are reluctant to see things like poverty as a cause for all of this, | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
of and certainly not an excuse. see some of the poorest people in | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
the world, who have nothing. They are not in this country, often, | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
they are brought in Africa and different places. They are not | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
behaving like this. I grew up poor, just down the road from here. You | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
have to know the difference between right and wrong. Stealing is wrong. | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
These Tottenham kids definitely know that. They have been really | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
upset by what has happened to their area. Do you really think they are | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
protesting about the killing of that man, or just taking the | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
opportunity to steal? Mostly, people are saying it is just to do | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
it for fun, and it was the opportunity. They are not using | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
their brains, they are just robbing for the fun of it. Why do you think | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
these guys are feeling -- are not feeling bad about the people they | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
are hurting? Because everyone else is doing it. They just feel like it | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
is OK. Most of the people are young. Bake just want a sense of | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
involvement. -- they just want. Maybe most people have been getting | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
involved simply out of greed. completely stealing and vandalism, | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
it is not writing in any political sense, there are no ideas. They are | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
not protesting about one thing. they are interested in what they | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
can wear, what they can prove to their friends, that they are | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
wearing something better than their neighbours. People are now debating | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
the deeper reasons behind why this Rick -- this trouble has happened. | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
They are blaming a range of things like parenting, the gap between | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
rich and poor, or two people joining gangs and using mobiles to | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
spread trouble. What everyone agrees on is that those involved | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
have to be caught and punished. The police keep releasing pictures of | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
those caught on camera and many are already going to court. Over the | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
past week, we have seen some terrible Pavia -- behaviour from a | :07:20. | :07:23. |